Tag: Old House Journaling
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Holy Grail & Daily Discourse
Tumbling toward two years of every-day “old house journaling” (and a 200% overshoot of the original challenge I set for myself at the beginning of August 2022) I’m abundantly aware of the rewards and the shortfalls of my daily discourse. Now 20-1/2 months — 626 days of reflective, inquisitive, whimsical, experimental old house journaling —…
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Eighteen Months
I’m almost 100% certain I’ve never used the term “humble brag”, but today I’m going to try it on for size. Although I’m not usually a buzzword kind of guy, today marks several concurrent benchmarks. I’m feeling bold! As of yesterday I’ve wrapped up dry January for the 12th year in a row. Yesterday also…
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Declutter
Where can you reduce clutter in your life? Where, oh, where can we reduce clutter in our life? Everywhere! So much stuff — physical, verbal, creative, emotional, psychological, social — ready to be filtered and distilled. Things to downsize. Bits and bobs to organize. Debris to purge. Busyness to abbreviate. Distractions to alleviate… Over the…
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Mission MMXXIV
Did you try to pronounce the title? Mishon Mmmkssiv… Or did you realize that MMXXIV is 2024 in Roman numerals? Welcome to day nine of the year MMXXIV, Bloganuary challenge number 9, and old house journaling challenge number 527. Those are our coordinates. But where from here? Today’s Bloganuary prompt invites me to respond clearly,…
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One Year of Daily Journaling!
Eureka! A year ago I set out on a personal quest to post an update each day without fail for one year, journaling deep into our Rosslyn story in the hopes of ascertaining what comes next. Today we celebrate 365 consecutive daily updates starting on August 1, 2022 and ending yesterday, July 31, 2023. What…
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66% Done, 33% To Go
This is my 243rd Rosslyn update in daily succession. It completes an 8-month streak of daily old house journaling, the 2/3 mark in my quest to post every day for one year. I marked an earlier milestone — six months in and six months to go — with a summary of the aspirations guiding these…
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Midpoint Milestone: 6 Months Down, 6 Months to Go
Yesterday was a meaningful midpoint milestone in my quest to post a Rosslyn update every day without fail for an entire year. Six months, 26+ weeks, 184 days. One new installment every 24-hours without fail. Rhapsodizing Rosslyn, celebrating our team’s accomplishments, soapboxing historic rehab and adaptive reuse, showcasing seasonality snapshots and historic Essex memorabilia, weaving in some hyperlocal haiku and…
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Yesteryear or Yesterday?
As I inch my way toward a long anticipated halfway point — six months of old house journaling — I’m finding that time, more than sixteen and a half years, has begun to blur. Excavating and analyzing more than a decade and a half of Rosslyn notes and artifacts and drawings and plans and journal…
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Why Reboot Rosslyn Redux?!?!
Yesterday I mentioned that the day was “an especially significant milestone for me“, but I postponed further explanation. Today, I’ll touch on this personal achievement by way of revisiting another previously postponed promise. Both obliquely reveal themselves in this excerpt from my October 10, 2022 update, “Old House Journaling“. Yesterday marked ten weeks of old house journaling.…
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Old House Journaling
Yesterday marked ten weeks of old house journaling. Every. Single. Day. Two months and ten days back at the helm of this wayward, meandering, sometimes unruly experiment I call Rosslyn Redux. I emphasize the daily component of this benchmark because it’s been an important part of the goal I committed to at the end of…