How do you plan your goals?
Thanks to Shakespeare’s aphorism, I am inclined to think of planning as futile.
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Um
What is a word you feel that too many people use?
Hesitant speakers use grunty sounds as placeholders. It’s inelegant.
Worse is a habit my fellow Boomers got into of inserting “like” in mid-thought.
Our sentences flowed as smoothly as muddied molasses. “It’s (like) you know man,” we’d say incoherently.
Made the guy pausing with an “um” seem genius.
What happened
What profession do you admire most and why?
Writers of historical fiction have the patience and savvy of scientists. They unearth secrets from the past to share with us. It’s as painstaking a process as archaeology.
Only once the excavation is done does a narrative unfold. Wow.
Found objects
If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?
In my youth, I knew a pair of artists whose work was informed by found objects.
They scoured the streets near their Lower East Side apartment for cloth and discarded spindles and leftover thread. Cardboard and milk cartons were turned into artwork.
Recycling the leavings of their industrial neighbors was an artful endeavor in and of itself.
Objets
If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?
Once upon a.., I planned on opening a little store with my friend Helen. We thought it would be cool to sell crafts.
I had been taking pictures with my Rollei Rolleiflex, which I wanted to include in our inventory.
The storefront we had in mind was deliberately tiny.
Enlightment
What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?
Carrying water is an expression.
It’s a bit old fashioned and a bit odd. In some iterations it is very Zen.
You may carry your own water or do so for someone else. Valuing who you are, you carry your own water. In service to others, you do so for them.
You find the quality of your life in the carrying.
How is this day…?
Describe your life in an alternate universe.
It’s pretty same-o-same-o today. A day like no other.
From my perch, I see the rings that have made our planet famous. Like Jupiter’s, they are a gassy effusion. And like Jupiter’s, they are very beautiful.
It’s barely past the lunch hour, and I am hungry. This, too, is not unusual.
Like I said, this seems to be shaping up to be an ordinary day.
Don’t have to look far
Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that.
Back to work isn’t happening for me. It’s one of the positives of retirement.
A return to the office is therefore not in the cards either. Irony is, however, always timely.
Zoom, the annoying and helpful tool that helps meetings happen when in person isn’t going to, ordered the dreaded RTO.
The only qualifier that doesn’t qualify here is that this is far from an uninteresting bit of news.
30 happy thoughts
List 30 things that make you happy.
Don’t let the number throw you! It’s a good thing. The more things to make you happy, the merrier.
30. Toddlers in the park
29. Flower beds
28. Linen napkins
27. Fine dining
26. Papaya King hot dogs
25. Sunny side up eggs
24. Describing the river
23. Creating a poem
22. Dancing
21. Dancing along to my favorite music
20. Singing along (always off key)
19. Exercise classes
18. Aqua exercises
17. Dance performances
16. Theatrical events
15. Symphonic concerts
14. The flute
13. The harp
12. Jazz
11. Rock
10. Bach
9. A good cup of joe
8. Murder mysteries [book]
7. Murder mysteries (tv)
6. Fresh pineapple juice
5. Certain sit-coms
4. Peaches and nectarines
3. A beautiful day
2. A rainy day
1. My husband
Joy
Describe one habit that brings you joy.
A day walking about or an afternoon sitting with friends or a precious hour catching a performance or time spent at home with my beloved are all ports of joy.
All The Best 