How to want more without feeling guilty for book clubs: honest answers for Tesuque

Tesuque · this week's honest page

Some nights in Tesuque the house is quiet, the kids are fine, the job is good — and you lie awake because something in you is still knocking. This is about opening the door.

And this is Tesuque: one of the Santa Fe area's most established communities — the kind of place where life looks handled from the outside, which is exactly why the gratitude-versus-settling question lands so quietly here Which is why real progress here starts with naming the specific, not the abstract.

🎧 A note for Tesuque readers (voiced excerpt)

“There is a fine line between gratefulness and complacency. One brings peace. The other slowly convinces you to settle.” — There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency

Read this slowly — it's probably familiar

You're grateful for what you have, and you've quietly stopped reaching for what you want.
Comfort in Tesuque is easy to keep and easy to notice too late.
You can't point to a crisis — just a long stretch of fine that's starting to feel like a ceiling.

One week of 'grateful and hungry'

Each morning: one sentence of thanks. Each evening: one sentence of evidence you moved toward more.
By day seven you'll feel the line between gratefulness and complacency in your body — that's what There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency trains you to see.

Nobody's coming to push you out of a good life. That's why you have to walk.

The voice you're hearing in this audio

Lindsey Nasser writes the way a sharp friend talks: direct, funny, allergic to hype, generous with the parts of the story most books skip. The result reads like permission rather than pressure.

The questions that follow — Tesuque edition

Do I need to be unhappy to get something from it? No — it's written for people who like their lives and suspect there's more. Gratitude is the starting point, not the problem.

Why is it only $0.99 on Kindle? To make the decision easy. It's free with Kindle Unlimited, and the $14.99 paperback is the same book in a format you can gift.

Pick it up where this page leaves off

The full book goes chapter-by-chapter through the exact line you just felt — Kindle $0.99, paperback $14.99, free on Kindle Unlimited.

There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency — book cover Kindle — $0.99 Paperback — $14.99

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