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今日、ペコスにいきます。まどをおきます。風。日。私の古い車。たのしい。

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Nightmare about a woman who'd been sentenced to death in Alabama. She looked at me hopefully and I felt helpless because I knew there's nothing I could do. I'm a lawyer, which means my path leads to the courts. In other words, nowhere.

I woke up and started making coffee and realized: what she needs is a journalist.

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Looking at Louis in the holding cell, I see myself in 20 years.

I’ve been doing this 40 years now, he says.

I’m not sure that I can do this for 20 more, I say. I’m pretty burnt out.

I don’t remember what he said to that, but I think that he maybe said nothing.

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I'm terrible at chess, but I enjoy reading chess books a lot, even though it apparently does little to improve my game. Is there value in that?

If you enjoy reading them, yes. Simple as that.

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You don't have to wait for a crisis to remake your life. —Gretchen Rubin

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Do the work

You have to put the work in. We can kid ourselves sometimes that there's a trick to studying chess. But there's no trick. You have to do a lot of work. You have to spend the hours with the book. You have to look through the games and think about them. It's going to take time and it's going to take effort. —Ben Johnson, at 44:52.

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"Between September 2019 and December 2020, I took a total of a year off from practicing. Didn’t touch the violin, for lots of different reasons, all of them valid." —Hilary Hahn

What if I did the opposite of this? What if I practiced as much as I could for a year?

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Five Ways NaNoWriMo Turned Me into a Writer at Fifty-One

No matter your age, NaNoWriMo has something to offer for you. For participant, Dorothy Wong, Camp NaNoWriMo gave her the chance to finish a novel! Read below to learn about her experience and what she gained during her writing journey. The year I turned forty, I took a twelve month leave from my job. With no work commitments, I thought I would finally write my novel. While I ended up with a blog full of chatty travel posts and fantastic memories, I didn’t write my book, not even a rough outline. Anytime I tried, I found myself distracted and overwhelmed. If I couldn’t write during that sabbatical year, I told myself, I was never going to write anything. And for almost a decade, I didn’t.

Then a friend posted on Facebook that she was attempting a month-long writing challenge called NaNoWriMo. My first thought was, “Why would anyone voluntarily sign up for that?”. I couldn’t imagine putting myself under that time pressure to produce an actual novel.

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The man took the stage and said I try to practice law the way Cal Ripken played baseball. He wasn't fancy. He just did the basics perfect 100% of the time.

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Someone once asked Stevie Ray Vaughan who his favorite guitarist was and he said my brother, Jimmie. Jimmie Vaughan is your favorite guitarist, really? My brother Jimmie knows what to leave out.

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Dialogue 1

What are you thinking?

I'm thinking that I'm sad that Bruce died and I'm wanting to take up the electric again.

Why do you think that is?

I'm thinking about my own mortality, I guess, and I want to reconnect to my youth. He was the same age that I am now when I started studying with him.

46?

45, actually. But close.

Did you study electric with him?

Oh, no. Classical. Bruce didn't play electric.

Then why not get back into Classical?

My depression. Classical is fussy. You have to sit a certain way and maintain your nails. And you have to memorize music; it's not improvisatory. It's great, but it's not for someone in a fragile mental state.

But you play classical piano.

The music is better. Much better. Bartók beats Sagreras any day. And ... you don't have to tune a piano. Just sit and play. It's difficult. Super difficult, but not fussy.

And the electric guitar isn't fussy?

It is, but there's no nail care. There's no memorizing the music of others like you have to do with classical. And there's distortion.

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maybe we were put on this planet simply to enjoy ourselves —Lyndsay Rush