“Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.“
Michael Josephson
“Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Rich Geib’s 2024 New Year’s Resolutions
What should I do? Where to go? How to live?
- Make my way in strange new 5.0 tennis world. Be open to what the universe may show you in this season of vertiginous change.
- “Ego is the enemy.” Not “kill your ego,” as one person urged you. But continue to keep the ego strictly in check. This idea has served you well, Richard. Keep it up. Continue this policy.
- Keep my head about myself – keep a low profile – up to and through the presidential election of 2024. Enough said.
- Continue to be a supportive and positive influence on your father. It’s not going to get better. It will get worse.
- Help Julia to put herself into a good position for college. AP classes, SAT tests, college visits, summer service trip, or whatever – do what you can to help your eldest daughter to maximize her educational potential.
- Help Elizabeth to be ready for high school. Focused instruction and practice in writing from January through August. And get Elizabeth involved in some serious and challenging sparring in the ring. Punching the heavy bag and throwing kicks in the air is good practice, but only in competitive scenarios does one understands one’s skills. Get it done.
- Experiment with spending vacation time in Baja California. Why take the trouble and expense to fly abroad to enjoy the Spanish-speaking world? Learn to drive down your car down to Ensenada and see if it is safe, enjoyable, and convenient. Three decades ago you did this not infrequently. How about now in the time of Mexican drug cartels?
Here is the reading lineup at this time:
- “The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure,” by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff
- DID READ
- “The Queen of the South,” by Arturo Perez-Reverte
- DID READ
- “Four Thousand Weeks,” by Oliver Burkeman
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- “Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico,” by Hugh Thomas
- DID READ
- “Goodbye Mr. Chips,” by James Hilton
- DID READ
- “Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country,” by Patricia Evangelista
- DID READ
- “No Beast So Fierce,” by Edward Bunker
- DID READ
- “The Gods of Guilt,” by Michael Connelly
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- “Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up,” by Abigail Shrier
- DID READ
- “Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class,” by Rob Henderson
- DID READ
- “Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture,” by Kyle Chayka
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- “What to Say When You Talk to Your Self.” by Shad Helmstetter
- DID READ
- “Against All Odds: My Story,” by Chuck Norris and Ken Abraham
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- “Stoner,” by John Williams
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- “More: A Memoir of Open Marriage,” by Molly Roden Winter
- DID READ
- “Leave the World Behind,” by Rumaan Alam
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- “The Good Shepherd,” by C. S. Forester
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- “Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin,” by Andre DuBus III
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- “The Mexican Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the Mexican Civil War and How Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata Impacted Mexico,” by Captivating History
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- “Selected Stories of Andre Dubus,” by Andre Dubus
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- “Del Otro Lado,” by Michael Connelly
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- “What Doesn’t Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength,” by Scott Carney
- DID READ
- “Moving Zen: Karate as a Way to Gentleness,” by C.W. Nicol
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- “Sociopath: A Memoir,” by Patric Gagne
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- “Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays,” by Joseph Epstein
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- In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife,” by Sebastian Junger
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- “The Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II,” by Evan Lewis
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- “Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing),” by Salman Khan
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- “The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America,” by Coleman Hughes
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- “What This Comedian Said Will Shock You,” by Bill Maher
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- “The Mexican Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the Mexican Civil War and How Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata Impacted Mexico (Exploring Mexico’s Past),” by Captivating History
- DID READ
- “Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are,” by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
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- “The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion,” by Gwen Adshead, Eileen Horne
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- “Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream,” by Joe Tone
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- “I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie,” by Pamela Des Barres and Dave Navarro
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- “The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA,” by Jesse Katz
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- “Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth,” by Pamela Anderson
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- “An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work,” by Charlotte Shane
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- “Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World,” by Anne Applebaum
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- “Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History,” by Nellie Bowles
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- “My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir,” by Barrett Brown
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- “Beauty, Disrupted: The Carre Otis Story,” by Carre Otis and Hugo Schwyzer
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- “Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body,” by Scott H Hogan
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- “La Ciudad y Los Perros,” por Mario Vargas Llosa
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- “Reina del Sur,” por Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- DID READ
Watch the following movies —
- “Civil War”
- DID WATCH
- “Sisu”
- DID WATCH
- “Somos”
- DID WATCH
- Finestkind
- DID WATCH
- Ford and Ferrari
- DID WATCH
- “Longlegs”
- DID WATCH
- “Roma”
- DID WATCH