Literary Pixie

By Sammy Ginsberg

I am writing my New Years Resolutions! So many of them! So this is draft one! I keep rewriting them and they feel way too large. I don’t have work to do this week really, so I think this is the goal. To read and set the goals.

1. I will eat three meals a day and one snack all vegan that I find nourishing, delicious, and energizing.
2. I will drink water every day.
3. I will eat at yummy restaurants.
4. I will grocery shop at farmers markets.
5. I will make fun recipes.
6. I will have dinner parties to share my cooking.
7. I will have a dining club to share my food adventures with.
8. I will go to yoga three times a week.
9. I will go hiking once a week.
10. I will go on daily walks.
11. I will go to one cultural event once a week and blog about it.
12. I will take time to make collages.
13. I will have two nights a week where I do my life organizing for my peace, go to yoga, do something relaxing, and go to bed early.
14. I will get 9 hours of sleep with an hour on both sides to get ready for bed and wake up.
15. I will have a culture club to go to cultural events with.
16. I will have a writing group.
17. I will have a dining club.
18. I will invest and nurture a friend group.
19. I will have relationships with people who enjoy doing things I enjoy and who have similar purpose, personal, and professional goals.
20. I will spend quality time with family and friends.
21. I will create rituals, traditions, meditation, and journaling.
22. I will have time to do my holistic reflections and journaling.
23. I will have time to organize my time and weeks and relationships and put them in order.
24. I will have time to appreciate the world and the beauty.
25. I will feel that people understand my vision and are supportive of it so that it feels easy and doable.
26. I will spend time with people who have a similar framework and structure to a meaningful and quality life in the 21st century.
27. I will finish my book Burnt Out Bitch
28. I will apply to get an agent or book deal.
29. I will write articles for newspapers and magazines and be seen as a respected expert in my field.
30. I will finish the screenplay with Juliana and Whitney
31. I will go on a writing retreat
32. I will have a committed writing group
33. I will write my utopia novel
34. I will explore and write about cultural community in LA
35. I will upload all my poems, blovels, and journals to my Literary Pixie Website
36. I will work at a school that supports my curriculum and allows me to run/be involved in a teen writers’ festival, poetry festival, and literature festival for Los Angeles community
37. I will understand health and our healthcare system.
38. I will become a certified healthy lifestyle coach
39. I will have my health teacher certification.
40. I will have a yoga teacher certification
41. I will develop my curriculum and pedagogies so that I have two curriculums that I am really proud of and can do my job well and hav work-life balance.
42. I will teach about 21st century literacy – housing, money, health, relationships, and improving the current system to update to the 21st century needs in improving quality of life for all living beings (plants, animals, and people)
43. I will understand how a neighborhood and city functions.
44. I will run a teen writers festival
45. I will run a poetry festival
46. I will run a writers festival
47. I will run a literature festival
48. I will launch my US state embassy idea
49. I will organize edutainment house parties, events, and workshops
50. I will publish blow gift magazine
51. I will improve teacher collaboration by building a website with quality resources and tools that are ready to use in the classroom organized by grade-level and standards.
52. I will make it easy for ELA teachers to access coaching and mentorship
53. I will host support groups for grade-level curriculum support.
54. I will improve contract so that teachers get a stipend for doing more than 2 curriculums and that they can control if they do more than 2.
55. I will set up interventions for ELA departments to create healthy and functioning systems of support for teachers on the school site
56. I will organize happy hours.
57. I will organize collaboration speed dating
58. I will organize an annual summer and winter party
59. I will connect nonprofits and external resources for education already available (museums, bookstores, art galleries. concerts, guest speakers etc) to teachers and schools
60. I will create specliized therapists for teachers
61. I will create a schools program for the Los Feliz Writers Festival
62. I will set up a literary series in the neighborhood
63. I will set up writer-in-residency programs and creative writing programs at schools, hospitals, senior homes, neighborhood councils, and day programs for people with disabilities
64. I will publish an anthology and organize a launch party to embed in the festival
65. I will create a magazine/monthly newsletter to connect opportunities and communities together.
66. I will create a lecture series in the evening.
67. I will help writers with their PR and Marketing.

OMG! This list is way too long to achieve!! FUCK!! Mostly work related, and the ones that really matter are vague as fuck. I’ll be revising this.