Resolutions you can keep

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31 December 2017, 05:46 PM

Steve Miller

Resolutions you can keep

I resolve to eat a lot more salsa in 2018.

You?

31 December 2017, 05:50 PM

wtg

I resolve to eat more chips and guacamole in 2018.

When are you visiting Chicago?

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31 December 2017, 07:54 PM

Doug

31 December 2017, 08:08 PM

CHAS

Play more music, whether anyone can stand to listen to it or not.

31 December 2017, 08:19 PM

Matt G.

Get more sleep.

31 December 2017, 09:28 PM

Bernard

I bought a Mediterranean cooking magazine yesterday. I am resolved to try many of the recipes. Made a nice Moroccan soup last night. Will make Koshari tomorrow.

I am resolved to finish 2 quilts that I started last year: One wool applique and one pieced.

I am working on Debussy's Preludes and am resolved to learn them this year. (I'm about ready to record Voiles and will post it when I do.)

I am resolved to buy a snow blower.

01 January 2018, 09:31 AM

Cindysphinx

Play more tennis.

No kidding.

01 January 2018, 10:38 AM

jodi

Do more art. And focus on and appreciate what I have, rather than what I am missing.

01 January 2018, 10:49 AM

jon-nyc

Sight reading practice.

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01 January 2018, 11:01 AM

Mary Anna

Exercise more.

Play more piano.

Those two shouldn't be hard, since I did very little of either this year. There's nowhere to go but up.

I'm trying to come up with a mid-life shift in attitude away from self-improvement and toward self-care. I enjoy playing the piano and I enjoy some exercise. What I really need to do is make more spaces in my days for things that are nurturing. Instead, I strike things off a to-do list and then I'm so burned out that I don't have the get-up-and-go to look for a new piece to play or to put on exercise clothes and hit the yoga mat, even though I know that I would enjoy those things more than an hour on the computer.

I've made some small inroads here. Let's see how 2018 goes.

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01 January 2018, 11:26 AM

jodi

quote:
Originally posted by jon-nyc:
Sight reading practice.

Yes! Add play more music to my list. Our son is visiting, he has been taking voice and guitar lessons, and I told him to bring his music - we’ve been playing (uke, guitar, piano) and singing every day and it’s been really fun.

01 January 2018, 11:33 AM

Bernard

Maybe I'll take up nose flute! Yes, it's played with the nose; the shape of your mouth changes the pitches. Plus, if it strap it on your face, you can play Uke at the same time!!

01 January 2018, 11:36 AM

jon-nyc

I resolve not to pick up the nose flute.

That’s a resolution I’ll definitely keep.

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01 January 2018, 01:08 PM

AdagioM

Self-cultivation vs. self-improvement.

I like this attitude: self-improvement resolutions imply that something's wrong with you that you're supposed to fix. Self-cultivation is about doing more of the things that bring you joy. Let's do it!

01 January 2018, 01:15 PM

Steve Miller

quote:
Originally posted by jon-nyc:
I resolve not to pick up the nose flute.

Or pick the nose flute. I'm not going to do that either.