— 100 Things · A Standing Order —
The Bucket
List
Not a list of achievements. A list of attentions — one hundred ways of being awake, kept in the order they occurred to me and revised only when honesty demands it.
The Ledger
000 / 100
I. The High PlacesWhere the air thins and the mind clears
II. WatersEvery element that refuses to hold a shape
III. Sky & Deep TimeThe long looking upward
IV. RoadsMovement as a method of thinking
V. The WorkshopMaking things with the hands that write papers
VI. The MindStudy, rigour, and honest confusion
VII. The TableAppetite as a form of attention
VIII. PeopleThe only experiment that cannot be repeated
IX. StillnessThe discipline of doing nothing well
X. The Last ColumnThings to have done before the ledger closes
A list is only a hypothesis about a life. This one is under continuous revision, and the revisions are the interesting part.
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