I'm doing 26 things
Understated
5 days ago
I’m thinking it will be a little vine of flowers twining along the outer edge of my foot. Something that would show in yoga class, but also something easily covered.
KayBellKnitter's Life List
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1. Complete 200hr yoga teacher training
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2. walk 10,000 steps a day
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3. keep a gratitude journal
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4. design and knit a hooded sweater
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5. keep a commonplace book
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6. finish all of my homework for knitting class
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7. save the polar bears
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8. learn feng shui
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9. give a damn
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10. Learn how to cook 10 good vegetarian meals
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11. organize my closet
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12. practice yoga daily
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13. Do something creative every day
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14. make a whole quilt, start to finish, for the bedroom.
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15. plant a lavender garden
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16. Identify and Rid Myself of 43 Items of Überclutter
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17. fold 1000 origami cranes
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18. weave in my studio for at least two hours a week
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19. read 43 classics
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20. Help my brain (calming tidy environment, new learning, new physical activities, diet, fish oil, social connections, positive attitude / love+gratitude, meditation)
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21. visit every Japanese garden in Washington state
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22. find all those objects that have gone missing
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23. Finish knitting current sweater
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24. Get a tattoo to celebrate finishing yoga teacher training
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25. Stop holding on to the things that clutter my home and my life
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26. knit the Rose of England tablecloth
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How I did it
It made me
Balanced. 
How I did it: My yoga teacher says that yoga is about linking the body and breath and stilling the mind ... NOT about performance. Now that I'm becoming a yoga teacher myself, I completely understand that sentiment. But I have secretly harbored this goal for lo these many months. I have succeeded in being able to stand in tree pose and sway with the breeze for a minute-plus, on each side.Now, I am going to practice some nonattachment and put this goal … Read how I did it…
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…
Recent entries
Turned in
5 days ago
all of my homework on 11/11. Another one of those auspicious dates, I think (similar to the date that I signed up for the course). I have to do a marathon make-up session for three classes that I missed. And then I will graduate on November 19!!!!
I started a 500-hour training this month. It seemed like the best next step.
Victory lap!
1 month ago
My TBR Lite List, completely crossed off:1. A.R. Ammons, Garbage
2. Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
3. Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools
4. John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath
5. Mary Roach, Stiff
6. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
I finished Garbage by A.R. Ammons on October 12. It’s a book-length poem, all written in couplets. It’s about literal garbage (what goes into the landfill) but also about the author’s aging, and more broadly about what at first we value in adulthood and then don’t value anymore as we get older. (Things that are not valued any longer are: garbage.)
The book is short but it too me a loooong time to read. The couplet style, and also the author’s strange punctuation (nary a period in sight, colons sprinkled liberally throughout, the overall effect being that every chapter was one long run-on sentence) were always getting in the way, for me.
