It's Friday! Rejoice all ye 8-5'ers. Someone once told me that if you find yourself being WAY too happy on Fridays, it's a sign that you should look for another line of work.
Here's the view on the coast:
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| Lu Ji |
Turquoise sky, ultramarine water, with a cloud-lace trim today. Nothing left of Storms #1, #2, and #3. But we await #4 tomorrow. Let's enjoy the sun in the meantime shall we?
And so we come to the end of the first work week of the year 2016. As a writing teacher and editor, I close it out with a brief quote from The Art of Writing by Lu Ji (261-303):
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Perhaps thoughts and words blend
into a lucid beauty, a lush growth;
they flame like a bright brocade,
poignant as a string orchestra.
But if you fail to make it new
you can only repeat the past.
Even when your own heart is your loom,
someone may have woven that textile before,
and to be honorable and keep integrity
you must disown it despite your love.
-Lu Ji
So how do you "make it new?" You're not going to like the answer. You have to have a full command of what is old. It means studying the past, scholarship, connoisseurship, critical analysis, source critcism, and curating.
So enter the year with the heart to make something new. But know the work of those who have preceded you. They built the road to get you this far. Don't be content to just dress up their work. Build the road just a little farther. That is my wish for those of you who create.
Love,
Pops
The 31-Day Paleo Journal
THU 1/7
Weight: 234
Evening blood pressure: N/A
B-ham and banana
Snack1-nuts
L-shrimp and crab salad
Snack2-lean turkey and hard boiled egg
D-beef slices in broth, green pepper, and apple
Drink-green tea
Rising: Easy at 6 am
General alertness: clear headed all day
Fatigue: No issues today
Sinus congestion: moderate
Descending stairs: wary but relatively painless
General joint pain: none to speak of
Body temp: regulation seemed to be working both hot and cold
Notes:
Reduced calories for lunch seemed to have solved the afternoon alertness issues
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