75 days over easy

the order of the day

First things first.
1   Get sleep — 8 hrs a day
2   Eat well
3   Exercise

The work.
4   Read one Bradbury 3 every day — 1 poem, 1 short story, and 1 essay
5   Write a poem every day — no internet til the poem is done

The way.
6   Cease not to sing of wondrous things

(And remember, this is voluntary.)

the word

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard

Violinists practicing scales and dancers repeating the same movements over decades are not simply warming up or mechanically training their muscles. They are learning how to attend unswervingly, moment by moment, to themselves and their art; learning to come into steady presence, free from the distractions of interest or boredom.
Jane Hirshfield

What I’ve learned from my walks is that every day — every step — on the road is a chance for self-renewal, to cast off some small micron of a past, shittier, scared, low-self-worth, less-kind self, and replace it with a more patient, more empathetic, higher value bizarro self. Someone you could have been earlier in life, given a different set of circumstances. Micron by micron, atom by atom, it adds up (one hopes!).
Craig Mod

All of which is to say that gusto thrives on freedom, and freedom in art, as in life, is the result of a discipline imposed by ourselves. … The thing is to see the vision and not deny it; to care and admit that we do.
Marianne Moore