Six Resolutions, 3 Already Accomplished

Made and already executed the first three of my six New Year’s Resolutions:

1)      Stop donating to environmental organizations that do not have birth control policies. There is one species overrunning the earth—humans. Just because Paul Erhlich predicted famine in Population Bomb (like ­­­­­­­­­­­­­Jonathon Swift in A Modest Proposal), but didn’t see social/environment disasters we have instead, doesn’t mean he was wrong.  He was right, but the business community loves customers!

2)      Get rid of ­­­­the ineffectual, feckless, and gutless—especially subscriptions to magazines that won’t acknowledge the above reality: The Pioneer, Atlantic Monthly, Skeptical Inquirer, and others.­

  3)   Toss sweaters no matter how well they have served you. I have a tendency to keep the stuff I love. This orange sweater with the large hole in the right elbow is the first thing I bought in Europe 20 years ago.

 4)   Make a kid quilt called “Olive Goes to School with Butterflies.”

5)      Make a braided rug with a new pattern you never used before—circular with streaming ray-points like the sun.

6)      Write a book about my father—I spent all last year procrastinating doing it. 

Admittedly, the last three will take some doing, a year certainly.