2011
– Last 100 Days
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November 2011
Today is Channel My
Rage (in a constructive way) Day.
Who am I mad
at? I’m mad at myself for getting mad.
Last week I
sent one of my daily devotionals from “On
the Threshold of Transformation: Daily
Meditations for Men” by Father
Richard Rohr OFM to my “Wolf
Pack List.” This is a group of guys
I share devotionals with, put out prayer requests and share our struggles to be
men. Many of the devotionals come from
the Ransomed Heart website, but when that devotional is focused on the ladies,
I will pull from other sources. The
devotional for that day asked, “How am I defined?” A memorable quote from the piece stated that
if you are defined by other people’s responses to you, then”…you’ve laid down a
sandy foundation for your life.” When I sent that out last Friday (28 October
2011), there were a few responses to the email, and we all went about our merry
way into the weekend.
Fast-forward
to this morning, when I get an email from my supervisor concerning a recent
performance evaluation I had contested.
What I read made me furious. I
thought about some not-so-nice (okay “scathing”) replies to him, and went as
far as starting a draft, then I thought about the devotional I had sent out
last Friday. It is easy to read these
devotionals and respond in agreement when nothing is on the line, but the proof
of whether we take them to heart is how
we respond when the thrust of the message hits us right in the face. Then I got mad at myself. The author had me pegged, “This
is the burden of the modern self:
insubstantial, whimsical, totally codependent, and all the while calling
itself “free” and educated.”
BOOYAH!
Guilty as
charged. I don’t’ have anyone to blame
but myself. If I call myself a
Christian, then I must (re-)align my attitude and as the author says,
“…identify the meaning of our lives within ourselves in terms of our radical
relatedness to God.” He ends the piece
with a quote from St. Francis, “We are who we are in the eyes of God, nothing
more and nothing less.”
How my
supervisor feels about me is his
problem. I know who I am. As I said in a previous post, “I got a
Daddy!” (Part
2 and Part
3) I will channel today’s rage into
a spirited Viking
Warrior Conditioning workout and reap the benefits.
Shouts out
to my Wolf Pack. They came back with
words of encrouagement and humor.
Whether it was focusing me on my successes or a friendly jibe to keep me
from taking myself so seriously. They came out like, well, a pack of wolves! Howl,
Wolf Pack, HOWL! Let me hear you,
brothers!
Goal:
1 hour per day working on the film
Details:
Digitized
2011 footage from a June interviews. (one tape)
Watched
Karen Everett lesson on three-act structure.
Total time: 1 hour
Goal:
30 minutes per day music practice
Details:
MojoCaster warm-up
“It’s Your Thing” – Isley Brothers
“Talkin’
Loud and Sayin’ Nothing” – Living Colour version (Spent some time combining the
two riffs.)
Rhythm
work on the E – B/D# - C#m – A chord progression.
R&B
chord progression work. Focused on
texture and tone.
Pat Metheny –
Exercise
#1 bars 1-4 metronome at 60 bpm
Total time: 30 minutes
Goal:
15 minutes exercise per day
36:36
Protocol (36 seconds to complete 18 reps, then 26 seconds rest)
18
reps per set – 16kg Kettlebell
Completed
20 sets of 18
Note: The
last time I did Viking Warrior Conditioning, I only completed 16 sets. Today (my day of rage) I knocked out 20! I gues I need to bring a little more rage to
the Viking Warrior table! For those of you keepng score, 20 sets = 360
reps
360
X 16kg = 5760kg which equals 12672 pounds total volume. Not too shabby!
Total Time: 24:04
Goal:
15 minutes per day working on the score for the movie
Details:
“Granby
Street” – lyric swap and bringing in first verse earlier
After
20X of the whole piece, focused on dyads and octaves
D –
Dsus rif work
“So
What” – Miles Davis
A
Dorian intervallic riff
Total Time: 30 minutes
