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Eleven thousand three hundred and five

That's how many cue cards I have

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Jim Dalling
Nov 24, 2021
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I just spend almost a hundred dollars on cue cards. I’m hoping that they will be worth more than ten times that price some day.

Time, it seems is going by more quickly than I would like. It feels like my birthday was just yesterday when in fact it was almost three weeks ago. Minutes turn into hours that turn into days, weeks, months and years. It’s all flying by so quickly.

I’ve spend time journaling.

I’ve created art.

This newsletter is a cumulative thing. It’s something that I plan on continuing. It’s become a practice, an ephemeral practice. Currently, I’m interested in things that are both concrete and ephemeral.

With this in mind, I’ve recently started a wood stacking project. I’ve also ordered eleven thousand cue cards. That seems like an odd number. And? As of the time of this newsletters publication, I have eleven thousand, three hundred and seven days until my eightieth birthday.

Although eighty might seem like an arbitrary date, I’m using it as one to shoot for. There are many …

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