tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post3432118011684334027..comments2023-12-18T07:59:16.525-05:00Comments on Hats and Rabbits: Happy New Life!Chris Matarazzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-60434664348504220952011-01-01T12:34:37.064-05:002011-01-01T12:34:37.064-05:00Excellent stuff, Lincoln -- thanks for sharing. I ...Excellent stuff, Lincoln -- thanks for sharing. I especially like the idea of eating more pie! In the end, the wisdom of the wise always seems to come down to that wonderful thing: balance --"be good and do some gentle sinning."Chris Matarazzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-30333723261902612982011-01-01T11:27:24.216-05:002011-01-01T11:27:24.216-05:00Bravo, Chris. I couldn't agree more. It'...Bravo, Chris. I couldn't agree more. It's all about marketing anyway. Every holiday we observe is now designed to imrpove the economy.<br />Here are some astute thoughts about resolutions from a blog I follow called Sarahs Booksusedand rare.<br /><br />"New Year's Eve finds me once again considering that thorny old business of resolutions. In the Life of Johnson (p.409), Boswell quotes Samuel Johnson's Prayers and Meditations (p.101) concerning the efficacy of the making of resolutions. I'm afraid Johnson didn't hold much stock in the idea:<br /><br />"Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.... They...whom frequent failures have made desperate, cease to form resolutions; and they who are become cunning, do not tell them.... He who may live as he will, seldom lives long in the observation of his own rules."<br /><br />After taking a break from the Life to read Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 this week (McGraw-Hill 1950), and finding that, like Pepys, Boswell carried around a little notebook in which he jotted reminders to himself to be good and moral, amidst the events of the day, and then observing Boswell's own riotously scandalous behavior almost immediately afterward, I tend to agree with Johnson. Don't make resolutions. They won't change your life; in fact, they may only serve to convince you of your own imbecility. Instead, be good, and do some gentle sinning too, year-round. Read more racy books. Eat more pie. Be a human being. Whoever makes the rules around here, if there is such a one, will surely assist us in sorting it all out at some point."Lincoln Hunterhttp://www.lincbyline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-50349046443780712692010-12-31T18:37:23.322-05:002010-12-31T18:37:23.322-05:00Ah -- why not wait until Monday? Rest up a little....Ah -- why not wait until Monday? Rest up a little.Chris Matarazzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-23600860086725516822010-12-31T13:18:15.111-05:002010-12-31T13:18:15.111-05:00I haven't gone to the gym in over a year, and ...I haven't gone to the gym in over a year, and I decided not to go today because tomorrow seemed a more fitting day to start being responsible. But this post peeled the facade of logic off my laziness.<br /><br />Thankfully, though, I'm fine with laziness however it comes, so I'm still not going.<br /><br />You're absolutely right because of examples such as this one--all the "New Year's Resolution" does is give you an excuse not to change on the 31st.<br /><br />"Never put off til tomorrow what you can accomplish today." Jefferson said something along those lines.<br /><br />I'll look it up...tomorrow.Nick Hnoreply@blogger.com