Happy New Year

 Before the clock strikes 12,
remember to remember your grievances and gripes,
your pitfalls and pains,
your sores and sorrows,
because there will be many more to come.

Before the clock passes 12,
realize where you are,
and where you came from,
because it is not you.
What you are,
what makes you is your smile,
your cheer, the twirl of your hair,
the gleam of joy in your eyes
when you see what makes you happy.

Resolve for nothing but what tickles you,
what pulls you, what drives you,
because there is nothing else that you need.

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If those who impose rules on others cannot abide by those same rules, then the rule-maker has no place making rules. It might seems intuitive, but it most certainly isn't for too many.

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Things I want to do before I'm 30

1. Play a music set in front of an audience and only screw up maybe 2 or 3 times.
2. Publish something.
3. Get another master's, maybe.
4. Climb something big.
5. Start a nonprofit.
6. Get my back fixed. And my left hip. And my knees. And my...
7. Get a black belt. I'm really close, but now I have to find a new dojo...
8. Take a trip anywhere without regard to timing or desire to travel there.
9. Live in a completely foreign place, like in East/South Asia.
10. Learn to swim, finally.

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