I'm doing 29 things
irony
3 years ago
had to add this one to my list, especially given the sole purpose of this site…
dididada's Life List
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1. live in the moment
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2. Build some sculptures for the garden.
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3. build a fort in the living room
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4. have faith that everything will be okay
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5. Be more humble
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6. go camping
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7. Create a life that is meaningful and of value.
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8. Focus less on the American consumerist lifestyle
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9. enjoy life
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10. Stop comparing myself to other people
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11. Visit the Galapagos Islands
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12. Eat at a restaurant alone
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13. read to my son every day
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14. Never stop learning
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15. have more dinner parties
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16. have a vintage travel trailer
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17. finish my basement
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18. Floss Every Day
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19. go to Africa
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20. drive to Alaska
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21. watch all movies on AFI's 100 Best movies list
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22. Watch the top 250 movies on the Internet Movie Database
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23. Visit my friends in California
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24. lose 5 pounds
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25. write more often to my friends
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26. Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
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27. see the aurora borealis
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28. accept the fact that flaky people will always be flaky, and not take it personally
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29. list 50 women little girls should admire instead of symbols of stupidity and weakness
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printed the list
3 years ago
17 down. Just completed THE SUN ALSO RISES and found it a bit tedious. I appreciate Hemingway’s style, however, and agree with another user that his brevity and pointed expression are reminiscent of Gertrude Stein. This novel was worth reading, if for no other reason than to help me spot Hemingway’s numerous imitators.
Up next: 1984
1. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
2. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
3. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
4. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
5. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
6. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
7. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
8. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
9. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
10. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
11. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
12. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
13. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
14. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
15. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
16. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
17. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
Eleanor Roosevelt
3 years ago
When Mrs. Roosevelt came to the White House in 1933, she understood social conditions better than any of her predecessors and she transformed the role of First Lady accordingly. She never shirked official entertaining; she greeted thousands with charming friendliness. She also broke precedent to hold press conferences, travel to all parts of the country, give lectures and radio broadcasts, and express her opinions candidly in a daily syndicated newspaper column, “My Day.”
This made her a tempting target for political enemies but her integrity, her graciousness, and her sincerity of purpose endeared her personally to many—from heads of state to servicemen she visited abroad during World War II. As she had written wistfully at 14: ”...no matter how plain a woman may be if truth & loyalty are stamped upon her face all will be attracted to her….”
After the President’s death in 1945 she returned to a cottage at his Hyde Park estate; she told reporters: “the story is over.” Within a year, however, she began her service as American spokesman in the United Nations.
Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/ar32.html
