Write a book in December

The Paris Review published a short and playful article titled “The Six Books We Could and Should All Write” that provides examples of six historic books that fit five different TYPES of books.

What types? “One should compose (1) a book about oneself, (2) a book about others, (3) an anthology of favorites, (4) a book about words, and (5) a book of lists.”

After having written some 433 blog posts, and as I'm coming to the end of the year (when I've tried to do some kind of year review of song and journal review) I've been thinking about ways I can do something with the stuff I've written or copied or recorded.  I came up with this list yesterday:

1. A year of growth, like tree rings
2. 10 moments that are important (like Philip Zimbardo... events, significance, how does it make you change your life) 10?
3. 100 top things I'm grateful for, annotated, 2021 (there should be about 1000 things (3x365) I wrote about this year!).  10x10 list (literally)
4. garden 'almanac' with all the garden and nature Middle Season notes I've made
5. Dave's ideas (10 of each?) for what you should do more of, do less of
6. Letter to self... (future self?) (current self?)
7. Letter to HDL...
8. 10 important concepts for Right Living (savoring, transitions, moving through)
9. 10 recipes, annotated with stories (Like Water for Chocolate...)
10. 10 decisions I made that, in retrospect, were important
11. 10 THINGS I made in 2021
12. 10 things J and I made together
13. 10 improvements to things 
14. 10 high points and 10 low points
15. 10 chapters of the year (chapter titles?)
16. 10 gifts I gave/ gifts I received

I'm thinking about the storylines of the year -- kid relationships, garden, interesting ideas I followed (or abandoned), grateful, the story of J and me.

This year, for some reason, there's seems to be a lot of material to write about... maybe b/c the blogging? maybe b/c the journal writing that increased while I've been blogging?

I'm thinking of images... the growth rings of a tree.... seen from the top... each quadrant a different story.  I'm thinking of temperature for the year charts...  bar graphs, line graphs...