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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Mercury, the god of cold

Written by Nathan on January 22, 2009 at 3:12 pm from A Month of Resolve.

Central Florida is usually a reliably warm place to live. Even during the winter, warm weather is the norm. But for the last two days we’ve experience below-freezing weather during the times I’ve normally run. I’m left wondering why year-round runners from colder parts of the country brave frigid weather. Is it a quest to conquer nature (or self)? Or is running such an addictive past time that no deterrent is ever potent enough to stop a runner?

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One Response to “Mercury, the god of cold”

Pip says:

January 23, 2009 at 12:23 am

I think it’s extra hard for you, because you’re used to the warm weather.

I went to high school in Pennsylvania, and I never remember feeling really cold after the first week or two of winter. I’d drive to school in below-freezing temps without the heat on and feel fine. But now, after four years of college in NC and three years post in Alabama, I get a chill when it gets below 50.