Tuesday, November 12, 2013
101 tiny actions
Little things. Tiny actions. They may not seem like much, but added up in the hundreds or thousands of repetitions, the hundreds of activities, these actions accumulate to mean something.
I’m not even going back to our grandparents or great-grandparents’ days when everyone had to plow, plant, walk or hitch up horses.
I haven't made it to 101 yet, but here are my first 21.
1. Cooking: mashing potatoes
2. Cooking: rotary beaters OR spoon mixing
3. Cooking: making dinner
4. Cooking: making bread
5. Cooking: chopping vegetables
6. Home: beating rugs
7. Home: pushing a lawn mower
8. Home: shoveling snow
9. Home: Hanging laundry
10. Home: Washing dishes
11. Daily Life: Changing the station on the TV
12. Daily Life: Answering the phone
13. Daily Life: Walking to the mailbox
14. Daily Life: opening the garage door
15. Daily Life: washing the car
16. Daily life: changing a tire
17. Daily Life: research in real books
18. Cooking: opening cans
19. Daily life: typing or writing (and rewriting) vs. word processing
20. Daily life: Walking from one office to another
21. Daily life: winding your watch or clock
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it is very interesting to think about all of the somehow meaningful human habits we still participate in that will go fully extinct in the not too distant future..
They just don't make things like they used to. We all know it.
I'm trying to pick up pens and pencils more often again. It feels right.
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