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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A Month of Wisdom

Written by Nathan on March 1, 2009 at 10:51 pm from A Month of Wisdom.

This month, every day, I’m going to handwrite a chapter from the book of Proverbs. I’m writing in a Moleskine, using the Message translation of the Bible. Each chapter will take only a few minutes to transcribe from type to script. But in reading a book reported to be written by the wisest man who ever lived, I’m hoping to find more than simply the sum of his words.

Why wisdom? Certainly there are other pursuits, many more noble than wisdom. But with a third child in my home, living in a country with economic instability, perhaps a bit of wisdom would be a prudent pursuit. And where better to look for that wisdom than in the Holy Bible? As John Russell once said,

A proverb is one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom.

It’s likely he didn’t mean that quite as I’m taking it, but for all the sources of wisdom man has turned to, few have endured so much or so well as the Bible. Join me this month and add your paper and ink to Solomon‘s word and see if we can all find a little wisdom.

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