“Then I thought about boxing and what my father had taught me about it. To tighten your fists hard. To strike out straight from the shoulder and never punch backing up. How to cut a punch by snapping your fist inwards, how to carry your chin low, and to step toward a man when he is falling so you can hit him again. And most important, to keep your eyes open when you are hitting in the face and causing damage, because you need to see what you’re doing to encourage yourself, and because it is when you close your eyes that you stop hitting and get hurt badly. ‘Fly all over your man, Les,’ my father said. ‘When you see your chance, fly on him and hit him till he falls.’ That, I thought, would always be my attitude in things.” (Richard Ford, from Vintage Ford “Communist”)
posts have been put on hold over the holidays. I have to say…2009 = probably the worst year of all time for me. However, 2010 marks a new year and a new decade…
What I will do in the new year:
sell some paintings, travel everywhere i want to go (no matter how much it costs – i’ll take out a loan), make all A’s again, kill a deer for Dad and Julia (even though I don’t know ANYTHING about hunting!), build a tree house, see more people, do more, love more, work harder, go fishing more often…list goes on…