jump starting conviviality

I love this list of resolutions from some of my favorites, 

the last one being my favorite. 

How has your January been thus far?

1. Get up every morning no later than eight. (Can break this rule once a week.)
2. Plan ahead. Plan carefully and shop in advance for what you need. Planning saves money, as well as time and steps.
3. When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.
4. Try never get drunk outside yr own house [sic]
5. Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
6. Never take a mean advantage of anyone in any transaction, and never be hard upon people who are in your power.
7. Try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!
8. Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
9. Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
10. If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.Did you guess who said it?: 

1) Susan Sontag, 2) James Beard, 3) Ernest Hemingway, 4) Jack Kerouac, 5) John Steinbeck, 6) Charles Dickens, 7) Julia Child, 8) Henry Miller, 9) Hunter S. Thompson, 10) M.F.K. Fisher




list via {paper and salt}
photo via {chairo-latte}