{"id":9012,"date":"2024-01-01T14:05:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T19:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/?p=9012"},"modified":"2024-09-22T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T14:02:02","slug":"farther-away-than-they-seem-%f0%9f%94%ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/01\/farther-away-than-they-seem-%f0%9f%94%ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Farther Away Than They Seem"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 3<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>\n

Twenty-twenty-three in a word was reparative<\/em>, rested-through with healing and repair of different sorts: reconnecting with longtime friends, quieting the email inbox and impulses toward glinty but ever-toilsome careerism, and too, physically, sticking with the trouble of massage and physical therapy regimens, and making a certain amount of peace with the notably prevalent Western mythology that embodied life is possibly<\/em> pain-free, when it turns out that time wags a finger and says no it’s not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I re-read those resolutions from 2017, a good enough set for an echo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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more laughter, longer beardgrowth, occasional<\/em> blog entries, regular running, new tattoo, Grand Canyon, more kimchi, early yoga and earlier meditation, watercolors, heartier alliances, coalition building, political resilience, generosity and kindness, when to habituate and when to digress and when to rest, longer olive branch, mightier dynamite, more olive branch dynamite, cayenne hot chocolate, eclectickler reading, more drawing, bigger optimism, more sunshine, and more laughter.<\/p>\nFrom “Resolving in 2017<\/a>“<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Running is out, but there is biking, swimming, and yoga ahead. No Grand Canyon coming up. Olive branch and dynamite were administrative tactics, and although I will have a brief interim administrative stint in 2024, all that’s needed for a few months is a steady hand and a positive outlook. I will be doing well if I continue the reading and writing and drawing rhythms that found cadence over the second half of 2023. Cayenne hot chocolate is always a sure, why-not treat, but it’s better enjoyed infrequently, every third month, let’s say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In numbers, 2023 reduces to the following easily tabulated scores. There’s always more in that hazy margin of activities that don’t deserve to be record kept for future lookbacks in future orbits: hours around the house doing this or that, the repairs and painting in the shed, cooking, mowing, and so on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n