Sunday, January 1, 2017

Your new year's resolution









I don't think random markers in time are good places to make decisions for change. One shouldn't resolve to improve based on a traditional time to do so. I know you come here each year for guidance in your New Year's Resolutions, but being hungover is not a place from which to seek improvement. We are too vulnerable. And as for me, the power of the written word is already so heady. I preach enough as it is.

So if I must guide you, let it be just this: 

You are better than you think. Take this year off.






7 comments:

  1. I like your advice. I have never made a New Year's Resolution. I have made many at times in my life: stop eating late at night, exercise more, start a new language--but they invariable fail. Usually when something changes for (what seems) the better it has its own life, its own sense and momentum. So a New Year's one seems even worse, slightly violent in its adamancy. I do have a desire to go see if the lake has filled at all after six years of drought, so I'm going to drive over there. I hope there are parking spaces in the outside lot.

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    1. I'm a little confused. Did you resolve to go to the lake? Or maybe it's just an idea, you know, like what the hell, you could wait until 2018 if you felt like it. Maybe you should wait til 2018 just to be safe?

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  2. Oh, I should, for clarification of your readers of comments, that we have had, relatively speaking, substantial rain this year.

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    1. How does that effect the local avocado crop? And does anyone there own an umbrella?

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  3. the avocado crop appears okay, though the drought has farmers nervous, as so much of the local water goes to agriculture. Yes, people have umbrellas but usually, like ours, they are in a state of utter dust or disrepair from underuse.

    I did not resolve to go to the lake in the same sense as a "resolution". It seemed like a nice idea. OMG, tho, it's so low. Shocking.

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  4. If only more people would heed this good advice the gym would not be so obnoxiously crowded the first two weeks of January. I was spared the pain this year by being sick, but I'm sure I'll live it fully in 2018.

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    1. You know, this may explain the upsurge of people on the river path. I really feel that when it is minus four out I should have it pretty much to myself, but this week has been oddly crowded for the conditions.

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