Prologue

Over the years, I’ve worked harder and harder to find meaning in life. But the more I've looked, the more I’ve wondered if I was going about my search the wrong way.

I've been looking for meaning through experience, but I think now that I've always had it backwards. Life will never be defined by extravagant experience, but about finding extravagance in common experience. So for 2009, I'm going to focus less on living large, and focus more on living well. Each month I'll start a new month-long project (like trying to run 3 miles faster than George Bush), to find uncommon results from common experience. Each project will involve daily activity, so every day of 2009 you can check my progress on the monthly projects and see what I discover.

None of these projects will cost much—in fact, I think most will be free. So if you're looking for a year uncommonly rich, you can join me. There's no membership required, just participate and comment if you want. Either way, get ready for a year I hope is unlike any other.

Epilogue

I stumbled across the finish line, but I manage to complete 8 of the month-long projects successfully. Blogging is now over at Wonderfam!

It's May, and May was a …

A Month of Accomplishment (about)

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Forcing myself to finish something (about)

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A new way to stretch

Written by Nathan on January 10, 2009 at 10:14 pm from A Month of Resolve.

I woke up to very achy legs, so I decided to take it easy this morning to give my body 36 hours for recovery. Before heading out, I went with the family to downtown St. Petersburg which may be my favorite part of Florida. (If you ever visit the area, stay here!) We had a picnic and played for an hour or two which in hindsight probably diminished the impact of my supposed recuperative run.

The weather here was surreal today—around 80°. When I finally started my miles I saw sailboats out, swimmers in the bay and so many beach volleyball games that there were groups milling about waiting for open courts. Senior citizens were in bathing suits playing bocce in the sand and there were runners everywhere. It seems like every other person was in a bathing suit or shirtless, so midway through the course I joined suit.

There are many times I don’t enjoy Florida weather, but it’s hard to argue with a day like today. I hope my body will return thanks for this break (a leisurely 1:05 for the 3 miles) in the form of healing and recuperation.

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