Category: Living life

Thoughts on things mostly unrelated to work or money

2023 In Review: Endings And Beginnings

Two weeks ago, I finished my year of prayer after my father’s death.

It wasn’t fun, or convenient, but it was something I wanted to do. I incorporated it into my weekly schedule, and I went.

Until, suddenly, it was over.

I no longer have to go. I don’t have to feel guilty if I miss a service. I could stop going altogether, and yet…

For years, I had wanted to go to services more often. This has been a goal on my Future Me list since I started it. The first day or two that I didn’t attend, I felt oddly adrift.

Maybe I still want to go? Though not maybe not every day?

Which leads to the bigger question: what else do I want to keep from my past year, and what do I want to leave behind? What do I want to do more of in 2024?

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Fitness Log #267 And Friday Firsts And Fabulousness

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 years, and plan to continue doing so.

Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.

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Fitness Log #266, Friday Firsts and Fabulousness, and Monthly Goals

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 years, and plan to continue doing so.

Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.

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Fitness Log #265 And Friday Firsts And Fabulousness

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 years, and plan to continue doing so.

Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.

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Fitness Log #264, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 years, and plan to continue doing so.

Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.

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Fitness Log #263 And Friday Firsts and Fabulousness

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 years, and plan to continue doing so.

Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.

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Fitness Log #262, Friday Firsts and Fabulousness, and Monthly Goals

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 years, and plan to continue doing so.

Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.

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Giving Thanks In 2023

If you follow this blog at all, you will have noticed that I haven’t been posting much beyond my Fitness Logs. I’ve been having a tough few weeks, in the setting of a not-so-easy year.

If you were to ask me how things are going, I’m much more likely to tell you about my latest challenges, than to say Great! and really mean it.

As this is Thanksgiving week in the USA, I think this might be a good time to practice flexing my thankfulness muscles. It’s good for me to count my blessings.

I hope you will not take this as boastfulness, but more as an opportunity to count your own blessings, whatever they might be.

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Fitness Log #260 And Friday Firsts

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 years, and plan to continue doing so.

Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.

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