Saafir

is planning his best year yet


Saafir's 82 goals tagged beauty
  1. Learn to play the guitar 12674 people
  2. learn to dance 6596 people
  3. work for Apple 183 people
  4. make jewelry 213 people
  5. make beautiful music 32 people
  6. become a musician 141 people
  7. change my name 494 people
  8. read more novels 85 people
  9. be neat 15 people
  10. organize my iTunes 230 people
  11. mend my clothes 19 people
  12. learn more physics 3 people
  13. learn to keep my plants alive 1 person
  14. rip all of my CDs to my hard drive 2 people
  15. create three beautiful things this year that require more than one week of effort 3 people
  16. build my jazz collection by buying a dozen or more top-flight CDs in 2006 0 people
  17. listen to 40 jazz albums in 1 year 0 people
  18. memorize Emily Dickinson's #510 "It was not death..." 0 people
  19. learn about American Literature by reading major writers and learning about their biographies 0 people
  20. learn the Chris Bliss "Golden Slumbers" juggling routine 2 people
  21. Make our balcony, bedroom, and living area a beautiful sanctuary 0 people
  22. get at least one person to understand why the Abbey Lincoln songs "Left Alone" and "Throw It Away" make me cry almost every time I listen to them 0 people
  23. learn to easily distinguish jazz drummers; start with Elvin Jones, Billy Higgins, Tony Williams, Paul Motian, Max Roach, and Roy Haynes 0 people
  24. take up the martial arts again this summer. prepare for training by building my strength, agility, and flexibility this Spring 0 people
  25. CREATE BEAUTY. Become a steward of music, art, literature, and architecture. Create a life that is a net gain for beauty in the world. 5 people
  26. draw a portrait of Giselle 0 people
  27. create a CD for Chip, featuring some good guitar music and notes on the musicians 0 people
  28. create a couple's blog and work on each week for a year 0 people
  29. learn an entire vinyasa, including the proper terms for the positions, from the Yoga Shakti DVD 0 people
  30. learn the first five forms in Tae-kwon-do (Chon-Ji, Dan-Gun, Do-San, Wan-Yo, and Yul-Guk) 7 people
  31. create a 43things page for my work goals 1 person
  32. barter beauty: trade my art for other people's art 2 people
  33. get rid of 10% of my clothes 0 people
  34. learn to easily distinguish jazz drummers; start with Elvin Jones, Billy Higgins, Tony Williams, Paul Motian, Art Blakey, Max Roach, and Roy Haynes 1 person
  35. do what feels like 70% of the house work for three months: this will mean that I'm doing my fair share, since we men tend to exaggerate our contribution to chores 0 people
  36. listen to one-hundred jazz albums in one year 0 people
  37. send prints of my photos to Sherlock7437 0 people
  38. watch all of Spike Lee's films 83 people
  39. format the hell out of our couple's blog 0 people
  40. make three months worth of mp3 jazz cds 0 people
  41. have fun while I'm in San Francisco 0 people
  42. take a photo of every major genera of cloud 0 people
  43. see branford marsalis live in concert 0 people
  44. buy art supplies and finish the last few exercises in the Betty Edwards book 0 people
  45. cultivate my skill at listening attentively to jazz recordings 0 people
  46. learn how to use my Nikon D50 camera 0 people
  47. draw every woman in the Fall 2002 Perfect 10 magazine 0 people
  48. thoroughly clean the house, in two hours or less 0 people
  49. draw a picture of "Alessandra" 0 people
  50. draw another picture of Alessandra 0 people
  51. get rid of 10% of my stuff 0 people
  52. vacuum the carpets and make the house beautiful before I leave today 0 people
  53. clean the house, make it beautiful for Kim 0 people
  54. clean off the patio: arrange it so that it is beautiful 0 people
  55. wash my hair, starch my shirt, and put on a tie 0 people
  56. clean the house before I leave for work 0 people
  57. wash and fold the clothes 0 people
  58. make the house beautiful today 0 people
  59. vocally transcribe two of Sarah Vaughn's songs from her "Swingin' Easy" album 0 people
  60. create a beautiful home my spouse and fill it with art, music, pets, and plants 0 people
  61. read the Encyclopedia Britannica article on jazz 0 people
  62. learn about 1920s jazz 2 people
  63. create beautiful martial art 0 people
  64. work out a personal philosophy for my martial arts practice 0 people
  65. wash and fold all of the clothes 0 people
  66. dress better than Miles Davis, James Bond, and Jimi Hendrix 0 people
  67. mend my fabulous 1970s vintage shirt 0 people
  68. hem my hot pants 0 people
  69. join the Galaxy Zoo project and start classifying galaxies 0 people
  70. make uncompromising martial art 0 people
  71. Find work that inspires me and plays to my strengths 0 people
  72. build my repertoire to twenty songs 3 people
  73. get a job as a singing waiter 0 people
  74. draw a picture of my ideal life 0 people
  75. make beautiful martial art 0 people
  76. train 75 minutes a day, five days per week, for a month 0 people
  77. answer firerainchild's questions about beauty and love 0 people
  78. practice like Coltrane 2 people
  79. build a stunning website 2 people
  80. organize five spectacular outfits 0 people
  81. collect 100 definitive funk albums 1 person
  82. make beautiful music: as infectious as Micheal Jackson with Quincy Jones, as elegiac as Eric Dolphy, as quirky and funky as Prince, as ebullient as Ella, as doggedly passionate as Coltrane; 1 person

 

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