My reformed and refined summer list.
For me, the "Time of Reinvention" (insert grandiose pretension) is always more authentic during the summer. I feel like New Years should begin at the end of June - it's so much more conducive to change than January's awful bleakness. People don't need stupid resolutions to change during the summer, but they do it naturally. The time away is what counts - everyone comes back all blossomed and fresh and pretty-like.
With that in mind, here is my working list of goals, because I need to be organized when I do this kind of thing:
1. Write, write, write. All the time, every day, a poem per hour, a phrase for a minute, scrawled on pads of hotel paper and on my wrist, anywhere. I need to bulk up my catalogue, fling a rope around all these vague circling abstractions and turn them into tangible letters on parchment.
2. Exercise, because I haven't in too long and I feel unhappy and uncomfortable. I want to be like a cat, lean and primed for movement. Try and like myself a little more.
3. Art. Do more art. AP stuff should mostly cover this. Speaking of -
4. Do AP work well and early on. Get all that shit out of the way so I don't have to worry about it in the middle of August.
5. Read all the time. And by all the time, I mean when I'm not writing/exercising/going places. Because I keep telling myself I'm going to tackle that precarious, massive stack by my bed/deconstructed and shuffled throughout my room/the house, but it hasn't happened yet.
6. License. Should get around to that.
7. Cook a lot and put together a collection of my own recipes. Hopefully, #2 will not compromise this. I need cooking and tasting buddies.
I am going to be one busy person. I can't let this one go to waste.
With that in mind, here is my working list of goals, because I need to be organized when I do this kind of thing:
1. Write, write, write. All the time, every day, a poem per hour, a phrase for a minute, scrawled on pads of hotel paper and on my wrist, anywhere. I need to bulk up my catalogue, fling a rope around all these vague circling abstractions and turn them into tangible letters on parchment.
2. Exercise, because I haven't in too long and I feel unhappy and uncomfortable. I want to be like a cat, lean and primed for movement. Try and like myself a little more.
3. Art. Do more art. AP stuff should mostly cover this. Speaking of -
4. Do AP work well and early on. Get all that shit out of the way so I don't have to worry about it in the middle of August.
5. Read all the time. And by all the time, I mean when I'm not writing/exercising/going places. Because I keep telling myself I'm going to tackle that precarious, massive stack by my bed/deconstructed and shuffled throughout my room/the house, but it hasn't happened yet.
6. License. Should get around to that.
7. Cook a lot and put together a collection of my own recipes. Hopefully, #2 will not compromise this. I need cooking and tasting buddies.
I am going to be one busy person. I can't let this one go to waste.