berit




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  1. 1. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
    3 entries . 6 cheers
    6,897 people
  2. 2. wake up early enough to have coffee at home
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    2 people
  3. 3. get to work on time
    6 entries . 4 cheers
    186 people
  4. 4. Take vitamins daily
    3 entries . 1 cheer
    732 people
  5. 5. Floss Every Day
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    1,170 people
  6. 6. Bike to work
    2 entries . 12 cheers
    202 people
  7. 7. keep up with current events
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    74 people
  8. 8. Take a photo every day
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    905 people
  9. 9. Take more pictures
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    12,422 people
  10. 10. learn to draw
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    1,679 people
  11. 11. Keep a journal
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    2,273 people
  12. 12. run in a race each month
    3 entries
    1 person
  13. 13. be a good aunt
    2 entries . 3 cheers
    66 people
  14. 14. Watch all the Films on the American Film Institutes Top 100 American Films of the 20th Century
    3 entries . 4 cheers
    32 people
  15. 15. See all the films that have won the Best Picture Oscar
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    287 people
  16. 16. Read more books
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    9,354 people
  17. 17. cook more
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    1,618 people
  18. 18. make full use of my Netflix subscription
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    25 people
  19. 19. watch less tv
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    1,620 people
  20. 20. take a vacation
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    412 people
  21. 21. remember birthdays
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    251 people
  22. 22. reply to emails faster
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    12 people
  23. 23. stay focused on work while I am at work
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    18 people
  24. 24. Learn Spanish
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    12,696 people
  25. 25. spend more time alone
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    57 people
  26. 26. learn to sew
    3 cheers
    2,924 people
  27. 27. knit a sweater
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    624 people
  28. 28. Take better advantage of NYC living.
    5 entries . 6 cheers
    147 people
  29. 29. go organic
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    107 people
  30. 30. find a job
    1 entry
    1,278 people
  31. 31. decorate my house
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    349 people
  32. 32. see the Democratic Party reinvent itself and take back America!
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    396 people
  33. 33. visit all 50 states
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    5,866 people
  34. 34. join a community garden
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    6 people
  35. 35. Do NaNoWriMo
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    489 people
  36. 36. go camping
    4 cheers
    2,073 people
  37. 37. Do the apartment therapy 8-week home cure
    1 entry
    17 people
  38. 38. share quotes
    3 entries
    119 people
  39. 39. Learn to play the guitar
    10,738 people
  40. 40. Try 100 new things (or actions, places, foods, etc) between now and the first day of autumn 2007
    11 people
  41. 41. hike the inca trail to machu pichu
    216 people
  42. 42. learn to ride a motorcycle
    1,345 people
  43. 43. take the stairs
    23 people
Recent entries
go to a live taping of this american life
Untitled 1 year ago

Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center.


Read the Long Road to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
last few paragraphs 1 year ago

So many great parts; here are the last few paragraphs:
“It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. Some say that has now been achieved, but I know that that is not the case. The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of out devotion to freedom is just beginning.

I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.”


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Henrik Ibsen, "Roving Song" 1 year ago

We rove with our spirits high,
Our mind is light, our step is spry,
Way up to the heights,—on the mountain,
Deep down, by the foss’s fountain—
The way may lead where‘er it will,
With song and sport we’ll roam our fill!

We’re out in God’s nature, free!
Like a beck untamed in the fell-side scree
We launch on our way in chorus;
The wide-open world’s before us.
So like the bird that joyful flies
We’ll raise our anthem to the skies.

We’re truly a cheerful throng,
We’ve ample voice and we’ve ample song.
Let storms make the fjord one fluster,
Let thunder and lightning bluster,
We’ll wet our whistles, step out well
And greet with song the fjord and fell.
-Henrik Ibsen, “Roving Song”

The first two lines are on a race T-shirt for this weekend’s Norwegian Festival. Very fitting for a road race!


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