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 February, and February was a …

A Month of Accomplishment (about)

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Forcing myself to finish something (about)

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Ending with a bit of a whimper

Written by Nathan on February 28, 2009 at 11:54 pm from A Month of Listening.

Whimpering, chiefly from my newborn, is a defining sound in my life. Right now, lying in bed, I’ve been listening to her steady sounds for hours. No excuse is ever brilliant, but I have great (in my estimation) interviews yet unposted, largely owning to the new and darling whimpered in my life.

Though this month is ending with it’s own sort of whimper, I think perhaps it’s a tribute to my rekindled listening skills than I’m paying attention to the right people and places instead of to the posting of the interviews. They will get posted, but not until the right time is back.

In the meantime, tomorrow the next month project will be revealed. That, of course, means I’ll have to settle on which of the three possible ideas I go with. Decisions, decisions.

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