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Two Lists for Days 4 & 5 of my New Year!

I’ve been in a consumerist mood lately so I thought I’d share a list of items where temptation was sparked on Post.

Unless noted otherwise, the impetus came from one or another conversation on one of Aja Romano’s posts. (Which is odd, because I don’t practice reading cards, but I have to admit the art is a lot prettier than fifty sticks or three grungy coins!)

Purchased

  • Tarot of the Divine, Yoshi Yoshitani
  • The Illustrated I Ching, R.L. Wing
  • World Atlas of Cheese, Nancy, Eekhof-Stork — (purchased after seeing someone’s Christmas present)

If/When Reprints are Available

  • I AM THE ARTIST Tarot, Sakki-Sakki
  • Delta Enduring Tarot, Egan
  • Taro in Colour, Ithell Colquhoun — (seen on someone’s bookshelf in a Post)

Things that I’ve created “triggered gratification”

  • 99 Variations on a Proof, Phillip Ording — (early Post recommendation) — Re-read Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau
  • Wanderer’s Havamal — (not due to Post, but I’ve wanted a physical copy for a while) — Run through my Chinese Classics (Tao Te Ching, Art of War, Analects)
  • Visconti Tarots Deck, Bonifacio Bembo — (the deck in the Castle of Crossed Destinies) — Read Will Buckingham’s Sixty-Four Chance Pieces
  • Tarot de Marseilles, Grimaud — Read Fred Getting’s book on the Tarot

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I’ve also been adding way too much to my ambitious stew of new projects in the New Year.

I wrote it all down in one big list to force myself about getting real for 2023. I think the cutoff will be around item 10, especially since I always assume there will be some surprises in store next year.

  1. Daily Exercise for mental health.
  2. Clean up my diet to lose weight for lowering my blood pressure.
  3. Continue my Penny Delights, #dailywriting #microblog
  4. Keep up with my Notes on my Consumption, #microessay
  5. Finish my ASL Hand #Sketch project (and find something else to keep up the practice — do it again with shading?)
  6. March through my little wisdom library (two year rotation)
  7. Home admin paperwork. Not fun, but needs to be done.
  8. The pile of books currently next to my bed
  9. #WeekendWeirdness with the kids
  10. Have fun with my archives for #SundayShare
  11. Initiate a new drawing project “an ignoramus appropriates the Tarot”
  12. Push out the backlog of blog drafts from the past three years.
  13. Keep up with the #Texture photos
  14. Find a good short book by Rumi to add to my little wisdom library.
  15. Survey the Stoics and decide if I want to pursue further
  16. A few Eastern Classics that have been “on my list”
    • Mencius
    • Lieh Tzu
    • Basho’s Travels
  17. Reread the Journey to the West
  18. Add Alt Text to all images in my blog archives
  19. #MondayNightMusic Video Posts
  20. Start a series of #BoringArchitecture photos
  21. Continue “a novice reads the I Ching”
  22. White whales in my literary history
    • The Art of the Personal Essay (reader)
    • Ovid’s Metamorphoses
    • Godel Escher Bach
    • The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
    • Odyssey
    • Masnavi
    • The Water Margin
    • Walden
    • Moby Dick
    • Iliad
    • Italo Calvino’s Ouvre
    • Haruki Murakami’s Ouvre
    • The Beat Reader
    • The Order of Things
  23. Initiate regular Banjo practice
  24. Get back into Kung Fu (I’ve given up on learning the Guang Dao)

Justus Pang