I'm doing 43 things
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1 year ago
Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center.
berit's Life List
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1. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
3 entries . 6 cheers6,897 people -
2. wake up early enough to have coffee at home
2 entries . 8 cheers2 people -
3. get to work on time
6 entries . 4 cheers186 people -
4. Take vitamins daily
3 entries . 1 cheer732 people -
5. Floss Every Day
4 cheers1,170 people -
6. Bike to work
2 entries . 12 cheers202 people -
7. keep up with current events
1 entry . 4 cheers74 people -
8. Take a photo every day
1 entry . 2 cheers905 people -
9. Take more pictures
1 entry . 1 cheer12,422 people -
10. learn to draw
2 entries . 2 cheers1,679 people -
11. Keep a journal
1 entry . 2 cheers2,273 people -
12. run in a race each month
3 entries1 person -
13. be a good aunt
2 entries . 3 cheers66 people -
14. Watch all the Films on the American Film Institutes Top 100 American Films of the 20th Century
3 entries . 4 cheers32 people -
15. See all the films that have won the Best Picture Oscar
4 entries . 1 cheer287 people -
16. Read more books
2 entries . 2 cheers9,354 people -
17. cook more
1 entry . 3 cheers1,618 people -
18. make full use of my Netflix subscription
4 entries . 4 cheers25 people -
19. watch less tv
2 cheers1,620 people -
20. take a vacation
2 cheers412 people -
21. remember birthdays
1 entry . 4 cheers251 people -
22. reply to emails faster
2 cheers12 people -
23. stay focused on work while I am at work
2 cheers18 people -
24. Learn Spanish
4 cheers12,696 people -
25. spend more time alone
1 entry . 1 cheer57 people -
26. learn to sew
3 cheers2,924 people -
27. knit a sweater
1 entry . 3 cheers624 people -
28. Take better advantage of NYC living.
5 entries . 6 cheers147 people -
29. go organic
1 entry . 2 cheers107 people -
30. find a job
1 entry1,278 people -
31. decorate my house
3 cheers349 people -
32. see the Democratic Party reinvent itself and take back America!
5 cheers396 people -
33. visit all 50 states
1 entry . 1 cheer5,866 people -
34. join a community garden
3 cheers6 people -
35. Do NaNoWriMo
3 cheers489 people -
36. go camping
4 cheers2,073 people -
37. Do the apartment therapy 8-week home cure
1 entry17 people -
38. share quotes
3 entries119 people -
39. Learn to play the guitar
10,738 people -
40. Try 100 new things (or actions, places, foods, etc) between now and the first day of autumn 2007
11 people -
41. hike the inca trail to machu pichu
216 people -
42. learn to ride a motorcycle
1,345 people -
43. take the stairs
23 people
Recent entries
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.”
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
Well 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!
