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KayBellKnitter

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I'm doing 26 things
  

KayBellKnitter's Life List

  2. 1. Complete 200hr yoga teacher training
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  3. 2. walk 10,000 steps a day
    15 entries . 21 cheers     		154 people
  4. 3. keep a gratitude journal
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  5. 4. Do the 2009 TBR challenge
    4 entries . 3 cheers     		19 people
  6. 5. design and knit a hooded sweater
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  7. 6. keep a commonplace book
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  8. 7. finish all of my homework for knitting class
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  9. 8. save the polar bears
    4 entries . 8 cheers     		18 people
  10. 9. learn feng shui
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  11. 10. give a damn
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  12. 11. be able to stand in tree pose for 60 seconds on each side
    2 entries . 8 cheers     		1 person
  13. 12. Learn how to cook 10 good vegetarian meals
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  14. 13. organize my closet
    2 entries . 6 cheers     		288 people
  15. 14. practice yoga daily
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  16. 15. Do something creative every day
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  17. 16. try 43 types of chocolate
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  18. 17. make a whole quilt, start to finish, for the bedroom.
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  19. 18. plant a lavender garden
    2 entries . 6 cheers     		2 people
  20. 19. Identify and Rid Myself of 43 Items of Überclutter
    3 entries . 2 cheers     		23 people
  21. 20. fold 1000 origami cranes
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  22. 21. weave in my studio for at least two hours a week
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  23. 22. read 43 classics
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		4 people
  24. 23. Help my brain (calming tidy environment, new learning, new physical activities, diet, fish oil, social connections, positive attitude / love+gratitude, meditation)
    2 entries . 3 cheers     		3 people
  25. 24. visit every Japanese garden in Washington state
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  26. 25. Stay In Tune With My Star player (Namely Me), The Person I have to Deal With Everyday.
    1 cheer     		64 people
  27. 26. find all those objects that have gone missing
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How I did it
How to do the A-Z author challenge
It took me
2 years
It made me
feel well-read

How I did it: About two-and-a-half years ago, I wrote in my journal that I could not find a currently-written novel that would hold my interest. I thought contemporary literature was in deplorable shape. When I found this goal on 43T, I thought, Well, it can't hurt to broaden my reading horizons. I limited myself to reading novels published in the year 2000 or more recently, and I read them in alphabetical order (by author's last name). Havin… Read how I did it…

Feb 08, 09:28PM PST | 1 comment | 8 cheers


Recent entries
sew a black dress for my daughter to wear to her orchestra concerts (read all 4 entries…)
Untitled 4 weeks ago

I am setting this goal aside, for now. (No, I didn’t sew the dress … but marked the goal as done.) Concerts are over for this school year; daughter signed up for one period of orchestra next year, but I am going to wait ‘til fall when her schedule finalizes before I decide whether to re-commit to this goal.

Jun 05, 10:18AM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments


read 43 classics
#1. Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter 4 weeks ago

Ship of Fools had a slow start, but I came to really love it as the story progressed. (You can read my review of it under the goal Do the 2009 TBR Challenge.)

Jun 04, 10:11AM PDT | 0 comments


Do the 2009 TBR challenge (read all 4 entries…)
Ship of Fools 4 weeks ago

I finished Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter on May 22nd.

This book had a slow start. The story is told by an omniscient narrator, and the first chapter or two are told from great narrative distance. I was not drawn in at first, at all.

The story is about a bunch of different people who embark on a cruise from Mexico to Germany in 1932. All of the different characters harbor a cluster of various prejudices about the others … many of them are thrown together with each other as cabin mates for the voyage, so there is plenty of tension … and WWII is brewing in the background …. None of the characters are especially likeable, at least in the beginning of the novel. But then one day as I was reading and thinking how much I was not enjoying the various characters, I realized the title was the author’s comment on these people: they are fools. I stopped comparing the storyline to episodes of All in the Family and just went with the flow of the story the author was trying to tell.

Eventually I did come to like very much the young American couple who are so ill-suited to each other, and also the divorced American woman who celebrates her 45th birthday during the voyage. And some of the other characters grew on me, too … so much so that I ended up really liking the book and even peeking ahead at the ending because I couldn’t wait to find out how it would all turn out!

A few years back I read Pale Horse, Pale Rider and I would recommend that novella over this book. But, nevertheless, I did end up finding Ship of Fools to be a worthwhile read.

Jun 03, 04:45PM PDT | 0 comments


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