Habits (Atomic)
What’s one habit that has improved your life the most? I start working when other people still sleep. I eat only when hungry. I do not go shopping when hungry. I am walking (nordic) without snow. I stopped talking. These are some of the few habits (atomic) that saved me time. And last one for the day (Quote): I do not have time for you now, sorry ... I might have time for year later like next year. If you like this, let me know. Am busy enjoying my last few years. Kindly from OZ The Wizard. ---I. The RiverNick Adams goes back to the river alone. Not to fish, not really — the trout are almost an alibi — but because something in him needs the discipline of a task performed exactly, in order, without hurry: pitch the tent square to the ground, drive the pegs true, boil the coffee the way his father once did, or did not, we are never quite told which. Hemingway never says why the boy has come back changed from the war he never names in *Big Two-Hearted River*. He shows us the burned-over land instead, the grasshoppers blackened by fire, the trout holding themselves motionless against the current in the one pool of clear water. The wound is never mentioned. It sits below the surface of the prose the way the trout sit…