"Mr. O’Conor did not know how long he would keep jumping, or even particularly why he kept jumping, morning after morning."

"But there was something about the whole endeavor that appealed to his big, obsessive personality and his appreciation for routines.... During the winter, there were days he could not really jump at all: When Lake Michigan was covered with snow and ice, he had to break through with a shovel to find a place to carefully drop into the lake, then climb out again. A woman interrupted him at the water’s edge once, concerned about his mental health. 'Are you trying to kill yourself?' she asked. 'No, I’m just jumping in and getting out,' he replied.... There is nothing elegant or artful about his technique. He does not swan dive or cleanly disappear into the water. He plunges, messily. Sometimes he executes a solid, and fairly impressive, back flip."

From "This Is the Story of a Man Who Jumped Into Lake Michigan Every Day for Nearly a Year/He started one Saturday as the pandemic was raging. Then he just kept going, never mind Chicago’s winter" (NYT).

In case you were wondering what you need to do to get a big article about you in The New York Times. Plenty of photographs too.

Well, whatever, nearly all the news is manufactured. At least some of the manufactured news is feel-good. Most of it is the opposite.

And I'm a big proponent of morning rituals. Just keep it light. Don't get too ritualistic. And don't kill yourself.