if you don’t go outside on a snowy day and stand there, letting the snow fall on your hair and your face and your eyelashes and your fancy clothes and letting the silence wrap its big cold arms around you, you miss out on a whole lot
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2010 was awesome. 2011 will be awesome. and i'm going to blog more about how awesome it is! a new addition to my blogs: i'm gonna add on at the end of every post something that people should do at least once in their lives to make themselves happier and healthier, to add more innocence and joy to the world, to liberate themselves from the confines of routine and stagnation, to become better human beings, to laugh out loud or hug a complete stranger, etc&etc.
there's a children's book author, dallas clayton. (he wrote a book called an awesome book! and then another one called an awesome book of thanks!, you should check him out here), and on his blog/diary thing on his website, he once posted this:
this is completely true and i think that small acts of kindness or of imagination or of joy, even something as simple as holding the door open for someone or doing a handstand while waiting for the "walk" sign to come on, will make the world a better place. so i'm going to start including that at the end of each post and should you chose to accept the adventure of becoming a more happy and fun-loving and liberated human being with me (the best new year's resolution of all), it'll be awesome.
also, i'll be posting more random musings or ideas or writings like the one above about the snow. just because i have a lot in my mind and sometimes my mind likes to see that stuff that it thinks on paper.
also, i might start including a count of how many boxes of honey nut cheerios i've eaten. because if i start counting on january first, i'm sure i'll reach an outrageously high number before long. honey nut cheerios are like God's gift to breakfast.
anyway, happy new year and check out dallas clayton and go play in the snow if there is any near you and eat honey nut cheerios. and then fix spaghetti and eat it! (<-- that doesn't count as the thing you should do to become a better person, that was just some good advice)
thursday album:
the wapsipinicon, san geronimo
(listen to the song --> "vans on dupont")
http://www.myspace.com/thewapsipinicon
