Taking Your Own Advice

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Back in 2017 I created this post stub. Then it read just two things. Exercise and Writing. There it would wait. Especially writing. Ahem.

And there it sat. Waiting for me to come back and follow my own advice. Get more exercise, worry less. Um, yeah. Wait, did I write “Exercise, Worry” or “Exercise, Writing”? Um, err, well there is more to do of both.

How do you follow your own advice.

Your History

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Forgotten a bunch of it? The question does not apply to those under 40. For the rest of us, with lots of things to remember, how’s the memory going? 

I was going through my photo collection. There was a collection of what we got on the farm share. There was a time when I photographed t-shirts because I could limit myself to black, beer t-shirts and I had too many. Of course, there’s a collection of photos for each trip, Mexico, Bali, Beijing, La Manga and Barcelona, and another to Buenos Aries and Bogota. There was a collection of photos for FredFest and feet and just wandering around.

I started to create a personal history of just photography. And then there’s looking at the images. Who has enough wall space to hang up all the memories?

When I get done with that, or done enough, I’ll work on another history. Like my scar collection. Or my bicycling. Or my whatever I can make a list of. So I can remember.

List of Lists

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A To Do lists in not one that I have. But there are a few. Like these.

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  • Areas of Obsession
  • Authors
  • Bad Influences
  • Cars Owned
  • Celebrity Crushes
  • Countries Visited
  • Earworms
  • Fall Foods
  • Frission Songs
  • Irritations
  • Lessons Not Learned
  • Movie Moments
  • Nostalgic Items
  • Photographers
  • Pivitol Life Events
  • Places I’ve Lived
  • Scars
  • Spring Foods
  • States I’ve Lived In
  • Summer Foods
  • Things Found After Buying New
  • Things I Adore
  • Things I Dont Do Well
  • Things I Dont Share with Peers
  • Things I Dont Understand
  • Things I Wish I Liked Better
  • Things That Make Me Cry
  • Tribes
  • Trivia About Me
  • Why I Like
  • Winter Foods
  • Women Mentors

Books May to July

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This is a list of what I read from May through July. It seems to be pretty light reading. Well, to my eyes. What about you?

  • The Thirteen Clocks, James Thurber
  • Turtles All The Way Down, John Green
  • Keep Going, Austin Kleon
  • Review of Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon
  • 3×4, Ivan Brunetti
  • Wordplay, Ivan Brunetti
  • Show Your Work, Austin Kleon
  • Queen of a Rainy Country, Linda Pastan (incomplete reading)

I’m currently reading Soft Hearted Stories, from Jenny Forrestor and Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.