Plan for a Day: My first
resolution has to do with a one-time event I’ve thought about hosting year
after year, and year after year I’ve let the date slip past without getting my
act together, but this year is going to be different, and here is my official
announcement: On Sunday, February 5, 2012 (please let me know if I’ve got the
date wrong, which would not do at all! I did check it several times over but am
still nervous), Dog Ears Books will be open for anyone who wants to attend a
Super Bowl Escape Party! That’s right, if you’re not a football fan, or if you
need a break from the excitement of the Big Game—whatever the reason, you can
stop in at Dog Ears and be assured that there will be no wide-screen TV booming
at you. We’ll have snacks. Maybe we’ll have games. I haven’t worked out all the
details yet and am open to suggestions. After all, we have over a month to
figure it out. ESCAPE THE SUPER BOWL! And if YOU want to escape while someone
you love does not, I have it on good authority that the Garage Bar & Grill
next door will have the game on....
Project for a Year: My second
resolution will demand a more sustained effort. Inspired by several books
read during 2011, as well as by a conviction that the woods and hills around me
deserve more attention than I routinely give them, I have resolved to spend
time outdoors, not walking or driving but sitting still, looking and listening,
once every week in the coming year. On these weekly expeditions, the camera and
the dog will stay home. Sarah will still have her daily outdoor adventures with
me, and the camera will doubtless be with me most of the rest of the time, but
this one hour a week will be dedicated to stillness. My weekly report will be
made on a new blog called “Home Ground,” where I have already posted more about this year-long project.
What else? Those are my only two
formal resolutions. This blog will continue, as will “A Shot in the Light.” I’m
less certain about the fate of “Without a Clear Focus” but don’t see any need
to decide one way or the other by any specific date. Then there is reading. It was only today, December 28, 2011, that it struck me that my “Books Read 2011” list will be
ending soon! As it’s getting cumbersome to have so many long lists here on the
blog, I’ll probably remove 2009 and 2010 soon.
And that’s about it. Those are my plans.
As for the bookstore, winter hours are posted in the right-hand column. We
haven’t had much winter yet, but there’s no telling what January will bring Up
North. Or any month or year, for that matter! But I will be keeping you posted, wherever in the world you are.
11 comments:
Well at least you HAVE some resolutions, and good ones at that! I haven't thought about it at all...I don't want to go with the tried and failed traditional resolutions ...if I do any I want them (it?) to be unique to me. We'll see if genius strikes me before the first of the year. Or ever for that matter! :)
My resolutions just came to me, Dawn. The one has, as I say, been coming to me for years and being shoved off, so it seemed time. Super Bowl not coming until February helped me decide, too. More time to prepare! The second came as something I wanted to do, also, and only took resolution form as the end of the year loomed. I completely understand about your wanting your resolutions to be unique to you, personally meaningful. Of course, they can really come at any time of year, too.
What, and miss Madonna at half time? Your place is gonna be crowded!
Bill U. Knowho
Bill, you could take your break during the play time and go back to the TV for the half time. And don't think you are anonymous, either. I know very well who you are!
We are still pondering our options. I have always been a procrastinator, and Miss Sadie and the Cowboy are happy to go along for the ride no matter where it may take us. Miss Puss, of course, feels (quite rightly) that I may resolve as I will, but she will always be the mistress of her own fate. It's humbling, living with animals.
Our animals keep us grounded, don't they? Sarah is enjoying her New Year's Eve rawhide bone to the max at the moment, wanting nothing more. I feel a similar contentment with my little glass of red wine. David is contented, too. We're not looking for fireworks tonight.
There's a Detroit Lions joke in this about always spending that Sunday Superbowl-free, but I can't get the right wording for it.
I bet if you ask the animals it would be the other way around about being humble and grounded.
Last night it occurred to me for the first that perhaps "Super" is the culmination of Rose, Sugar, Cotton, etc., etc. I could look it up but am too happy with having come to the conclusion myself to verify it elsewhere.
An anonymous comment appeared in my e-mail but not here on the blog, for some reason. It was: "I bet if you ask the animals it would be the other way around about being humble and grounded." Meaning that we keep the animals grounded? That would only be fair. Reciprocity is a good feature in a relationship.
As you can see, I found the Anonymous comment in my Spam folder, marked it "Not Spam," and now it appears before my note saying that it doesn't appear. Ah, the mysteries of the blogosphere!
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