{"id":1135,"date":"2010-12-30T10:47:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T14:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2010\/12\/30\/various-sundry-part-eighty-five\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T13:13:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T17:13:17","slug":"various-sundry-part-eighty-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1135","title":{"rendered":"Various & Sundry, part eighty-five"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do not write regularly in my journal… I see no reason why I should. I see no reason why any one should have the slightest sense of duty in such a matter.
\n\u2014Occupant of The Hall Bedroom<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Year of 2010 workout totals: Swim-35; Bike-40; Powerwalk-3; Run-0; Lift-0; Pilates-0; Lupus Drills-0<\/p>\n

— There is no good justification for having any of these annual numbers come in under 48. I managed to preserve some level of basic fitness this year, thanks only to continued pool access and my fondness for being on a bicycle, but I can\u2019t kid myself\u2014if I don\u2019t reverse this slow decline in vigorous activity, I shall pay a price over time, and it will be a price I can\u2019t afford. My hope for 2011: a new momentum of exercise that will result in a more balanced routine, with 7-10 pounds of weight loss by my birthday.<\/p>\n

— The best exhibitions I\u2019ve experienced this year? The ones that occur to me now are the Surrealism show at the Cincinnati Art Museum, the California Impressionists show at the Dayton Art Institute, and the Collage show at Northern Kentucky University. I shall not soon forget seeing my first original Schwitters collage or Cornell box. I am challenged to learn more about Louise Nevelson, Hannah H\u00f6ch, Alfred Mitchell, William Wendt, Percy Gray, Matthew Rose, David Wallace, Cecil Touchon Janet Jones, Dennis Parlante, and Stephanie Dalton Cowan.<\/p>\n

— One of these days I\u2019ll start to fully comprehend what mobile technologies portend for my creative work style. Believe it or not, I still don\u2019t know what to make of these changes in communications. They seem to be touching everything, even my annual experience at Barefoot\u2019s Resort. Being able to have a MacBook Pro and access to a wireless broadband connection changes everything about staying on top of project priorities while out of the studio. Bullets showed me his Kindle and I liked it. I didn\u2019t expect to. Everybody around me seems to have an iPhone. How can I stay abreast? How can I hope to remain a communication designer amid all these transformations?<\/p>\n

— Dana\u2019s blunder with the non-existent gas line sent me into a bit of a tailspin, until I realized that tearing apart my work space in the basement would probably result in a better situation after the dust settled. Lesson: disruptions can be opportunities. I need to embrace change more, as I used to do. Look at how Dana has taken on a new discipline with Bruce\u2019s in-home dialysis. We all tend to make room for what we consider the most important things, and that includes procrastination.<\/p>\n

— Very well . . . here I am at the close of another year. I can\u2019t change a single thing about the past. In hindsight, the preceding weeks look like some type of malaise. Not that there haven\u2019t been a few highlights, such as the Safariland Doe with my solo harvest at Blue Bank Farm, or the recent push to restore our conference room, but overall it has been a dismal quarter. Enough with the negative. I have the new-year opportunity to shake off the \u201chumbug\u201d and get it together. There\u2019s always the historically strong motivator of Resolutions,<\/em> to reboot my priorities and catalyze a new momentum that would carry me toward my 60th birthday in 16 months. Time to plot a systematic, gradient escalation to full engagement\u2014 physically and mentally \u2014to balance professional, financial, and artistic activity. Reclaim it!<\/p>\n

V & S<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do not write regularly in my journal… I see no reason why I should. I see no reason why any one should have the slightest sense of duty in such a matter. \u2014Occupant of The Hall Bedroom — Year of 2010 workout totals: Swim-35; Bike-40; Powerwalk-3; Run-0; Lift-0; Pilates-0; Lupus Drills-0 — There is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,71,33,66,12,21,42,38,57,16,6,14,13,27,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}