{"id":1657,"date":"2012-01-01T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T21:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2012-01-01T13:08:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T21:08:15","slug":"moore-resolutions-last-years-and-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2012\/01\/01\/moore-resolutions-last-years-and-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Moore Resolutions, Last Year’s and This"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dear Blank Slate<\/em> subscribers and guests, greetings of the new year to you. And thanks for signing on. There are some 75 of you at this moment, and you can consider yourselves from here on as “signature members.” We’re friends, for sure, and will become more so. If nothing else, you’ll be providing for me a sense that I’m not writing into space, but in fact there are readers out there, thinkers and fellow travelers. Of course, any response will always be welcome.<\/p>\n

So here we go.<\/p>\n

It’s January 1, the traditional day of new resolves, that is if we didn’t know ourselves too well. Still, it is a day of new hope, and why not give ourselves another chance, and the new year a chance to see what it can do for us, or us for it. If our resolves don’t last, well maybe even a short-lived effort is better than none at all.<\/p>\n

But before jumping in with wild abandon like a kid from the high board, eyes closed, pinching nose, I’m remembering I must have done this last year. Did it make a splash? Did anyone notice? Or did I just end up with earaches, like me at age seven and eight after summers at the municipal pool in Milwaukee?<\/p>\n

I check and sure enough find a file called \u201cJan. 2011\u2014Looking back, Looking forward<\/em>\u201d dutifully done this time last year. I find recounted a few reflections on the year before and then some aspirations for the new. I went with my surname as a guide.<\/p>\n

Here’s the list:<\/p>\n

More heart, more spirit, more focus, more verve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

More laugher, more hope, more living in the moment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

More giving, more loving, more water-spread bread<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

More prayers, more hearing, more keeping lines open<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

More sowing, more growing, more living to the full.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Basically more of all that matters, living up to the name.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There it is, a little soliloquy authored by me, addressed to me. I remember writing it now. I don’t remember doing it. At least not more<\/em>. But then, that’s the trouble with that word: It’s open ended.<\/p>\n

In any case, I think I’ll hit it again. I’ll toss the same ball in the air and take another swing. We may be the only ones in this game, playing against ourselves. But still, it’s no fun hitting dribbles; better to try hitting it out of the park.<\/p>\n

Write your own list. Or use mine. Paste it on your refrigerator, or your mirror, or your door to the outside world. If the resolves only last a week, it’ll still be a better week. And if some of them stick for a year, it’ll be a better year. It’ll be a HAPPY new year, indeed.<\/p>\n

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Next: Some things we want less of, coming Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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