100 Things That Made My Year

100 Thing of 2022

Here is 2021's list: link. Here's is 2020's list: link Here is 2018's list: link  Here's 2017's list: link

1. I made a daily checklist of things to do, organized by these categories: attend, care, make, learn
2. "Note 10" broken down into categories: nature, others, art
3. I start monthly meditation schedule of guided meditations on Insight Timer.  There are different "guides" (Tara Brach, Joseph Goldstein) each day of the week, different recordings from them on different weeks.
4. I begin making weekly cruciferous salad and pot of beans (likely influenced by How Not to Die)
5. I begin "basement workout" that's focused and brief: 10 HIIT on stationary bike, 10 mins of yoga, 10 mins of bodyweight exercises
6. I begin airfrying tofu, and never go back to pan or oven frying
7. I build complex new budget program in Google Sheets based on a template
8. Todd and Julie and Jennie and I go to see four concerts at SPACE in Evanston through year: Son Volt (feb), Chris Smither (apr), John Scofield (sept), Alejandro Escovedo (Oct)
9. Begin adding a poem to the blog on each day after Middle Season (so, 1st, 11th, 21st of each month). This encourages me to read more poetry books.
10. I complete big landscaping project that transforms front yard
11. Jennie and I also see in concert Lucinda Williams
12. Transforming idea: health is like a piggy bank -- there are "contributions" that you can make each day
13. Expanded backyard garden to the patio area with two standing boxes and a couple of urns
14. Began making weekly playlists for Todd (he maybe began this and I reciprocated)
15. Trip to Nashville at the end of the schoolyear with HG... last one before Dennis and Harry move
16. Trey Page wedding in St. Louis (in June?)
17. Begin "where to find" spreadsheet to try to tame my inability to find important paperwork, tools, etc. when I need them
18. Take 10 pictures of leaves in the forest on the solstice
19. Create "Middle Seasons Philology" doc to keep middle seasons notes
20. Montana/Glacier Trip in July
21. Make hummus
22. Begin teaching again after a couple (three?) year break.  Lots of prep over the summer, WAY busier at school, WAY more homework
23. Make Glacier photobook
24. Begin way to get a lot done in 60 minutes: 6x10... focus on one thing (weed garden, water, trim bushes, whatever) for 10 minutes only... landscape triage
25. HG golf competitions
26. Begin "100 Days of..." project... guitar, lower body stability
27. Begin listening to WFMU, specifically Michael Shelley... which transforms my "New Finds" playlists
28. I do my own IFS session (see p. 23 in July)
29. Dew point observation obsession (p. 22, 23). Focusing on the related data of humidity vs. temp vs dew point
30. Guitar - MEMORIZE Satie: gymnopedia, a couple "Study #"s, get back to recording them in voice memos
31. Watch Unforgotten 3 seasons; Leftovers 2 seasons
32. Tom Ryan therapy: you are fucked
33. start jogging 1 mile; end up at 26 or so.  10 at 1 mile; 10 at 1.5; 6 at 2
34. Making lots of song seeds, but no songs
35. get 2 kettlebells to swing
36. 2 great songs: Rami and the Reliables - Red Lil Ditty and NRBQ - Be Here Now
37. Continue guitar - 14 in a row, record Studies 3, 4, 5, 9
38. Evanston Farmers Market -- walking around Blick Art Store
39. Make (at least) 4 pestos in Aug and Sept
40. 10x10 project: learn coding
41. 10x10 project: watercolor technique
42. Madison visit
43. 3x10... 10 mins of office paperwork/house tidying/deeper clean of ONE thing
44. start poem index
45. do a lot of blog index
46. Honey Hill apple picking
47. Dick Blick apron that Jenni gets me for Xmas; 
48. Begin listening to Cool Tools podcast... following what Kevin Kelly is doing
49. Run 7 days in a row
50. making garbanzos in the instantpot; making applesauce in instantpot
51. Roadtrip to Dodgeville in Oct
52. Plant tulips; clean up garden
53. 51st year blog index project completed
54. get to 59x guitar practice
55. Pyramid of daily dozen (p. 73)
56. Several new recipes - Green Owl, Curry, White beans, migas tacos
57. Do 30 poem drafts in November
58. Get out of sad funk with pomos and Bemis walk
59. Achieve breaking point with kid and family; don't attend Christmas; take a break from talking, seeing (lots of sad reflection in Nov and Dec)
60. Captivate by mulch after run (p. 8)
61. Created color "master to do" list for work and home 
62. I small glass of wine at Xmas eve; none at xmas... none on vacation... none in the new year (it's now 1/20)
63. Restart/complete Brach/Kornfield meditation course
64. Jennie gives me wool clogs like the ones we saw on kid/man in Montana
65. TV Shows: 10 Houses that Changed America
66. Books: