I'm doing 42 things
Fernando Sor
2 hours ago
I am learning, as a summer project, a very fine study by Fernando Sor. I have a recording of Julian Bream playing this and I’ll use it to listen and learn. It’s frustrating to be a slow learner.
ratunderpaper's Life List
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1. finish my painting
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2. speak out against Canada's seal hunt
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3. see Paris again
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4. create 20 episodes of my not-for-money, just-for-fun comic strip
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5. write another 43 Haikus
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6. learn Japanese
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7. Try to exercise in some way every day until Victoria Day or so.
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8. be a (less derivative) painter
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9. read Proust
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10. improve my French
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11. visit Claude Monet's house at Giverny
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12. learn to sew and hand-embroider
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13. learn classical guitar
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14. organize
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15. learn more about wine
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16. have a beautiful garden
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17. make more jewelry
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18. change somebody's life (for the better)
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19. build a walk-in cocoon
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20. publish cartoons in the New Yorker
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21. make homemade organic sweet butter
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22. go on ad finitum about feminist issues
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23. feng shui my house and garden
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24. become computer savvy
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25. make a mojito
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26. Dress better
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27. create a performance art piece for nuit blanche 2008
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28. embrace shibumi and wabi-sabi in my surroundings and life
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29. Learn to whistle with my fingers
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30. Grow a Secret Garden
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31. declutter my house, particularly the basement
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32. Make steamed puddings
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33. read finnegan's wake
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34. learn to play chess well
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35. learn secret spy skills
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36. fully restore my century house
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37. take up ballet again
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38. give free hugs
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39. learn the "Thriller dance"
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40. learn sudoku
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41. start riding my bike
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42. play tennis
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Recent entries
Thursday, May 8, 2008 Haiku #68
23 hours ago
The aerial pink
Flutterdown from stark branches
My Japanese friends
Back to the Painting
23 hours ago
I moved the painting out of the studio upstairs so that I could picture it in situ, in the main room. A lot of time has passed and I have not been able to make the move to finish. I keep thinking of whimsical ideas, or ironic “punch-lines” to complete it- but that’s the illustrator side that won’t go away.
