{"id":268,"date":"2010-10-30T09:57:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T16:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexfaye.com\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2013-11-04T23:40:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T06:40:13","slug":"a-life-to-do","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/?page_id=268","title":{"rendered":"A Life To-Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Like this list, life is in progress, and constantly subject to revision<\/li>\n<li>Move the body<\/li>\n<li>Show up<\/li>\n<li>Pay attention<\/li>\n<li>Try hard<\/li>\n<li>Read poetry, especially Mary Oliver<\/li>\n<li>Flirt with babies<\/li>\n<li>Grow something<\/li>\n<li>Keep your word<\/li>\n<li>I think <a href=\"http:\/\/rowdykittens.com\/2010\/11\/life-lessons\">this young woman<\/a> is on to something<\/li>\n<li>Buy as much memory as you can afford<\/li>\n<li>Apologize when you hurt somebody<\/li>\n<li>If you have babies, give yourself over to them without reservation or regret<\/li>\n<li>Love the world, all the particulars<\/li>\n<li>Forget convenience<\/li>\n<li>Keep it light and breezy on the outside, deep and thoughtful on the inside<\/li>\n<li>Look your dog in the eye and say, Good Dog<\/li>\n<li>Be delighted and grateful for what you are<\/li>\n<li>Look at photographs of the universe<\/li>\n<li>Peer into microscopes<\/li>\n<li>Bend over and look at your toes often<\/li>\n<li>Contemplate your form and symmetry<\/li>\n<li>Count what you must count (blessings, dollars, calories); forget the rest<\/li>\n<li>Forgive easily<\/li>\n<li>Quit dragging your sins and mistakes around in a bag around your neck; you may stash that bag in a locker at a bus station in Barstow, and drive away<\/li>\n<li>Write about it<\/li>\n<li>Drop your change in open guitar cases on city sidewalks<\/li>\n<li>Sing in the car<\/li>\n<li>When love comes to you, be glad<\/li>\n<li>Everyone&#8217;s alone sometimes; don&#8217;t fear solitude<\/li>\n<li>Sit and be quiet and do nothing<\/li>\n<li>Forgive yourself for not reaching your own impossible standards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like this list, life is in progress, and constantly subject to revision Move the body Show up Pay attention Try hard Read poetry, especially Mary Oliver Flirt with babies Grow something Keep your word I think this young woman is on to something Buy as much memory as you can afford Apologize when you hurt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-268","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}