Pilot Post: Personal Commandments

Hello World!  Today is the first day of my blog.  It’s a brand new enterprise, and something I've never tried before.

My goal is to use this blog as a means to change my life.  I am young, but already I can see my life slipping down a really depressing path, of jobs that bore and depress me, futile pursuit of Things, too much TV, and too little passion.  I want fun!  I want joy and creativity and discussion and poetry!  I want endless walks and color and a peaceful mind and a constant simmer of thought.  I don’t want to waste my life waiting for the weekend.  I have a lot of things I want to do, and I don’t want to lose any more years. 

There are many things that I want to accomplish in the coming year.  I want to turn my whole life around!  The timeframe is short, yes, but I don’t want to wait.  To begin giving this project some structure, I will be referencing Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project (I actually had an idea of this type of goal before reading her book, but finding it was so lucky.  She has some great ideas for organizing goals so that you can realistically follow through on them.  Always a plus!)

So, to begin, I am going to lay down my commandments:

1.     Remember, and be Kimmer

2.     Be kind; it costs nothing

3.     Just start

4.     Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good

5.     Go outside

6.     Put it on hold

7.     Feed the engines

8.     Don’t panic; there’s time

Right now, I can only think of those eight.  Maybe I’ll add more later, but this is a good start.

Before I go, let me leave you with the last stanza of one of my favorite poems.  It’s what gave me the idea for the blog name, and the line always comes back to me. 

“This is where I want to live,

close to where the heart gives out,

ruined, perfected, an empty arch against the sky

where birds fly through instead of prayers

while in Hoy Sound the ferry's engines thrum

this life this life this life.”

--"Orkney/This Life" by Andrew Greig

(Find the full version below)

http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/orkney-life

This is my beginning.  Wish me luck!