New Year’s Resolutions

One of my tentative resolutions was going to be: “Try to stop changing the lyrics of every song to variations on, ‘Chop, chop, chop! Chop up misogynists!’” But about an hour after midnight, I began reading Men to Avoid in Art and Life by Nicole Tersigni. I looked up from the book, petted a cat, and sang, “Chop up mansplainers/ on New Year’s Day.” (This was shortly after listening to U2 sing “New Year’s Day).

It actually snowed last week. It’s melted now. Here’s my backyard with Tibetan prayer flags and a Buddha.

I intend to not buy chocolate for the entire year (with the possible exception of 100% cacao dark chocolate). And…. that’s why on December 30th I ordered a whole bunch of chocolate online.

I intend to be more spiritual this year.

I just finished reading the book I Don’t Want to be an Empath Anymore by Ona North, and I bookmarked some exercises in the book, never mind that some are not terribly different from journal writing I’ve done. I have other spiritual and self-help books I wish to read.

Self-help/spirituality books aren’t something you binge-read but instead you need to process and journal/meditate/do whatever “assignments” are at the back of the chapters. Because of this, I set up my Goodreads goal as only 52 books this year instead of 100 (although for the past two years I’ve exceeded 100 books by a lot). I also think having a lower book count will cause less anxiety and add incentive to write much more and read…