Happy New Year!

Life is not a constant thing;
it's only made of short stories ...
-- Neko Case, "Guided By Wire"

I'm looking forward to seeing what the next chapter brings for each of us ... I hope your 2008 got off to a good start. I know mine did!

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Start the new year off as an optimistic environmentalist ... fill out Lincoln Electric System's online survey to suggest priorities for sustainable energy projects. Where it asks for additional suggestions, I offered "promotion/incentives for solar water heaters and solar energy panels." Who knows ... maybe something might actually come of it?

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Favorite fortune cookie of the New Year's weekend:

Pay attention to your nonverbal cues, and try turning it down.

Especially funny when you know the two words to add to the end of every fortune ...

Mind candy.

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Lately I have been focusing too much on what I want and don't have ... and not enough on what I do have and what I can be doing. Mismanaging my personal energy.

"Today I will begin" ... to stop that shit.

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My nightstand is one of my favorite spots in the house. I'm ridiculously vain about what it says about me.

These are the books currently in rotation. I'm about midway through every single one. Sometimes because what I read depends on the mood I'm in; sometimes because a fresh, new title entices me away from my current read. Some are "comfort reads" ... old favorites I return to like a security blanket when I need the reassurance of familiarity. Others never make it onto the pile because I gobble them up like chocolate-chip cookies.

Haphazard, yes. I read like I live -- all over the place, without discipline and with abandon.

Today I agreed to write a review of Betty Levitov's new book. To the bathtub, to begin!

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Quote of the day:

“I dwell in possibility.” — Emily Dickinson

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