I was wondering and wrote about it
Yesterday I posted on my daily habits. Today what I don’t
Exercising that thing I think I should do but I don’t. Even after the years of bicycle commuting, after a few months of walking in the morning, after it
I’m sure there is more that I want to do on a daily basis. I’ll add them in here as I remember.
If you have a job, you go to work. And that can be all that you plan on for each day. Now that I’m retired, I have “things to do.” Yes, I take my prescription pills, make and drink some coffee. There are also some things I do every day.
Morning Pages a daily writing task from Julia Cameron. Listen about it here, or read about it here, or check this list of links. I started Morning Pages in April of 2015. I’ve filled twenty composition books with them. Yes, I buy them by the pack of twelve. I now do four pages so that sometime in the future I can flip through and read the headings. Well, and since they’re smaller than the 81/2×11 pages it works out to about the same amount of writing.
Duolingo the language learning platform. It has scores of languages available. For
Meditation, as in sitting quietly eyes closed, watching my breath. I started with a simple Meditation Helper. It tracks your streak, does a bell when you
Those are my Daily DOs. How about yours?
On a morning walk my wife Jennifer said “I read something irritating. They said they were elderly.” I asked “How old were they?” She replied,”Late 60s, 67 and 69.” To which I started to laugh. We’re 62. We are elderly.
Or are we? We are old. But elderly? That has a connotation of being fragile with diminished capacity. We feel pretty vital.
What do you think is meant by elderly?
It was a tough time. My father in law was in a rehab center. Jennifer had both of us in bad states. On this day I started to write. How else could I relearn how to write? And so I did. In three weeks I filled up 100 pages of progressively better handwriting. One thing I did not do was watch TV. OK, I did watch one PBS documentary and one movie. But I couldn’t take it. I wrote instead. And spent time with Mom, and Cheryl mostly. Other relatives also came by. But mostly I wrote. And thought about what was ahead.
You have to start someplace.
It´s a new month. I promised on August 1 to update you. In July it was Watercolor Month. August became a writing month, specifically Blog It Month. So far so good. There are lots of posts, nearly one every day, on a variety of topics. Mark it down as a success.
This inspiration came from Austin Kleon and his book Keep Going. In it he advises to do a little bit every day, to share what you find, and (well) Keep Going.
I´ve chosen a thing to do for September. I´ll tell you about it in October. Why wait to tell? I´m following the advice of putting my energies into doing it, not talking about doing it.