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Minor Deity |
Mine is to say "YES!" to opportunities.
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| "One half of me is a hopeless romantic, the other half is so damn realistic." Beatification Candidate  |
Declutter more.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
I’m with you on that. We should have another ‘what I got rid of today’ thread.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Very cathartic. 
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Minor Deity |
I washed, folded, and put away every item of dirty clothing and linen in the house. In so doing, I neatened my closet a bit. The kitchen is clean. The bathroom floor is mopped. My suitcase is packed for a weeklong trip. I leave tomorrow at noon. I cooked a reasonably healthy lunch--blackeyed peas, cabbage, and corn fritters-and enjoyed the leftovers for dinner. I also snacked, but what they heck. Tonight, I'm going to do some spa-like things. Condition my hair while I soak in the whirlpool tub, paint my toenails, and such. It doesn't feel like a bad start to the year. I'd play some piano, but I nicked the pad of my right index finger pretty good on something sharp I shouldn't have put in a kitchen drawer. When it heals, I'll be back at the keyboard!
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Sounds like a great start to 2018! 
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Thanks, Bernard. Bob claims to be completely non-musical. Will get him a nose flute for his birthday later this month. Amazon will even let you subscribe to nose flutes so you can get one a month.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
I don’t know how well I’ll keep this, but in the interest of improving dialogue and reducing tribalism, I’m going to try to do the following: - take the more charitable view of the people I disagree with. - “steelman” the views of others when I take issue with them - refrain from replicating ‘outrage’ memes. Though this is slippery because sometimes the interesting news stories contain an element of outrageousness. - avoid ‘whataboutism’ and arguments about arguments. - avoid unbalanced charges of hypocrisy, knowing the equal and opposite change almost certainly applies as well
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| "One half of me is a hopeless romantic, the other half is so damn realistic." Beatification Candidate |
I’m with you on this.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Why?
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
So how did you do? I’ll give myself an A+ for sight reading practice. It’s my habit now to do it first thing in the morning on the digital before anyone wakes up. Every day I read through a new Scarlatti sonata. I do it in Longo’s order and I’m on L240 or so, so I should finish in late 2019. Though it wasn’t part of my resolution, I added scales to the morning routine in the spring. Decluttering? That’s a different story. I’ll give myself a C-. I got started but it petered out. As for my list of how to have better discussions, I’ll give myself a B-. I know I didn’t follow it all the time, but I did stay conscious of it and it moderated my posts to a decent degree.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Since I did not make any resolutions in this thread, my compliance is A+.  This year I resolve to do the things that I know I should do more regularly. It isn't about what brings me joy, because I enjoy the things that I do on a daily basis. It's about maintenance and overcoming inertia. Decluttering would definitely be part of that. | |||
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Minor Deity |
I admire that you did it.
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Minor Deity |
Hey, I didn't do too badly. I didn't cook as much mediterranean as I was planning, but I did finish the 2 quilts and made a 3rd as well; I have been working on Debussy's Preludes, I'm up to #6, have started slowly reading #7; and I did buy a nice snowblower. It pays to make reasonable resolutions.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
This resolution stuff works great! Not only did I eat more salsa this year I found a lot of new kinds to try. 
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