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25.01.2022 Wake up. Exercise (you can't write without running). Write and write and write as best you can. Lockdown bathes you with time freed up but lockdown blankets you with a future stripped down to mere weeks. Sometime soon you need to pause and plan, month by month, perhaps even week by week. Soon, soon. https://bigdecade.com/2020/08/15/big-year-direction/

23.01.2022 Will our post-Coronavirus world radically reinvent itself or will it, as someone quipped, be "just the same but with enhanced hygiene"? That's way beyond my conscious analytical ability, but I'm doing what I always do: read and read and read. Even before the inevitable avalanche of futurism, I reach out at random: Marina Benjamin's Garden Among Fires: A Lockdown Anthology [ 42 more words ] https://bigdecade.com/2020/08/16/exploration-of-future/

10.01.2022 Five years ago, on my 60th birthday, I had a brainwave and launched a Big Decade, with the intention of running different Big Years for ten years. Each Big Year would impose a daily, obsessive requirement or activity, for 365 days. I saw my Big Decade as one way to inject energy into my 60s. I decided yesterday, on my 65th birthday, to call it quits after five years. [ 549 more words ] https://bigdecade.com/2020/08/16/end-big-decade/

09.01.2022 Aug 16: Steven Poole's delightful word is adlubescence, something that really, truly brings pleasure or delight. As he himself says, adlubescence is a "charming word", and charming words always refresh me. Andres Kabel's word of the day? Doesn't bestial sound great? It carries a range of dictionary definitions, from a technical orientation of "relating to animals," to "exceedingly cruel," and even to "involving human-animal sex." I often wonder: are humans bestial or not? Source: A Word for Every Day of the Year by Steven Poole. https://bigdecade.com/2020/08/16/august-16/