100 Things That Made My Year 2022

Agnes Martin - "Friendship" - 1963

 

I try to be grateful.  I often think about (but don't act on) the Kurt Vonnegut line about trying to SAY when you're happy.   I took this 100 Things idea from Austin Kleon.  

Food

Things

Accomplishments/Work

• Creating the hardscape in the front yard.  It's slow work.  It fits my personality of doing a bit, seeing what's there, doing a bit more, changing the plan, doing a bit more.  In May I began getting outside again to do after school work on it.
• Gardening.  This is the second year of a raised bed.  I prepped the soil by digging in old leaves.  I prepared a square foot model.  I bought a standing-level raised bed.

People/Relationships

Books

Adventures/Nature/Trips

Learning

Music 

Life Hacks

• Continued reading 10 minutes from a poetry book in the mornings.  Read a number of books of poetry by doing this -- two books by Ada Limon, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Ocean Vuong's Time is a Mother.  While reading, I marked the poems I liked, then later went back to it.  This process fed my blog...  each day-after a middle season (so, the 1st, 11th, and 21st of each month), I posted a favorite poem with commentary.  
• I began reading George Saunders' A Swim ni a Pond in the Rain 10 minutes a day in the morning.
• I got more serious with yoga and cardio by doing it simple: 10 minutes of HIIT training on the bike (with a book or music in my ears) followed by 10 minutes of YouTube yoga.  
• Also in the "every day in the morning" category, I made a month-menu of guided meditations from Insight Timer.  Each day of the week I did a different guide.