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New Year's Eve #12, Bellerive Bluff

Inspired by Sunday Stealing, I'm continuing the new year festivities with a list of things I'm trying in 2016!

A bad habit I'm going to break is not stretching enough before bedtime.

A new skill I'd like to learn is cutting my own hair.

A person I'd like to be more like is Primo Levi. Even when life was at its very nadir, and he was less than a slave in Auschwitz, he could see the power that each and every individual retained: the power to refuse our consent.

A good deed I'm going to do is most likely one done without mentioning it.

A place I'd like to visit is the Arashiyama Bamboo Grove in Kyoto.

A book I'd like to read is Julian Barnes’ latest novel, The Noise of Time.

A letter I'm going to write is going to be at least 145 pages long.

A new food I'd like to try is a proper tom yum goong.


I'm going to do better at cooking stir fry.

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