Chuck's Adventures: January 2012

Friday, January 13, 2012

Wednesday I biked to pick up my van from servicing in town, Thursday was our first real snowfall of the season, and today we enjoyed the snow , hiking at The Hollows in Cary, Illinois...

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Resolutions for 2012

The tradition of New Year's Resolutions goes back to 153 B.C. The Romans named the first month of the year after the mythical king Janus (January), the god of beginnings and the guardian of doors and entrances. He was always depicted with two faces, one on the front of his head and one on the back, allowing him to peer backward and forward at the same time. Hence, Janus became the ancient symbol for resolutions.

Though I have never put stock in proclaiming what too often are merely temporary personal improvements, I relent now and begin 2012 with these lofty (if inane) aspirations:

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Master the subject of algebra:

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Buy a belt because...

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Get up-to-date with the latest music trends and groups...

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Bike instead of driving...

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Pray that more days start out this way...

...and NOT this way...

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Work out, get into shape, and develop a "six pack:"

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Learn more about that new-fangled invention called the computer...

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Solve that troublesome snoring problem...

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Study up on punctuation rules...

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Don't act my age, act my feelings...

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Analyze all those household mechanical problems and SOLVE them using the proper tool...

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Make those plumbing repairs I've been postponing...

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Re-read this psychology study...

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My advice to everyone for 2012 and beyond: Figure out where you fall on this life timeline, and enjoy the rest of your journey on earth...

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!

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Featuring Chuck's adventures in Nature, adventures with family and friends, adventures in music, and adventures with words.

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Adventure begins where your comfort zone ends.

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Nothing adventured, nothing gained!
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The older I get, the better I was!
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Like G. B. Shaw, I want to be all used up when I die!
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I want to die young at an advanced age.
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore
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The closest place to heaven is being out in Nature.

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I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

--Henry David Thoreau

But in every walk with Nature, one receives far more than he seeks.

--John Muir

Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find.
--Walt Whitman

Every journey has to end, and the end of the journey is always called Home.
--Nelson DeMille

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
--Susan Sontag

Twenty years from now, you will be disappointed more by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. Explore. Dream. Discover.

--Mark Twain

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood; an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
--G.K. Chesterton

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.
- -Chinese Proverb

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
--Vance Havner
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