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 September, and September was a …

A Month of Accomplishment (about)

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Forcing myself to finish something (about)

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I’ll take a side of awesome with that sandwich

Written by Nathan on February 3, 2009 at 8:56 pm from A Month of Listening.

The only problem I see with this project (A Month of Listening) is that there are more people I want to interview than days in the month. But on my shortest of short lists was today’s interviewee, Mike Iaccarino, or just “Manager Mike” to most people around Northland. Mike’s a constant fixture at the local Nature’s Table Café, managing and tending not just to the store and its staff, but also to the many regulars that frequent the restaurant. He was one of the reasons I came up with this project, and I couldn’t have been more thrilled that he let me take a few minutes from his afternoon to listen and learn a little bit more about him.

Year of Months / A Month of Listening Day 3 from Nathan Clark on Vimeo.

(3) Comments

3 Responses to “I’ll take a side of awesome with that sandwich”

ScottyA says:

February 4, 2009 at 9:29 am

I love this Nathan.
Geof F. Morris says:

February 8, 2009 at 12:29 pm

A little hard to get out of your own way at the first, but y’all hit your stride. Of course, Mike is a rambling guy like me, so that makes him … tougher to interview, in a way. But I think he was also pretty nervous, as he admitted at the end.
Jeremy Pinnix says:

February 11, 2009 at 10:09 am

What a great idea, and Mike is an interesting fellow.