Wake up and fight

Most weekdays, Jake goes to work and I get things done at home and school and eventually, sooner or later, sit here at the computer. I take a break with a cup of coffee. On bad days, I sit down early. On good days, I realize it's lunchtime and I haven't checked my email. Either way, most weekdays, Jake wakes up a half hour earlier than he needs to so he can check things he reads and looks at online. Some we share: xkcd, for instance. The weather. But he also reads a number of websites I don't bother with--cool tools, boing boing, a bunch of political sites.

Many days, I sit down at the computer and find he's left open a tab for me. Usually it's a link to something interesting, like color photos from the 1930s Soviet Union. Or where to buy dehydrated food in bulk. We have many interests. My favorite was a blog of a woman who takes her motorcycle into Priapyet and takes photos of the destruction post-Chernobyl. Fed right into some of my greater irrational fears.

Today he left open Woody Guthrie's New Year's Resolutions, 1942 edition. You can go and take a look. Many wouldn't apply to me, but I could take 10 of those and make my own list, straight from his beautifully handwritten and illustrated copy.

1. Work more and better
2. Work by a schedule
7. Drink very scant if any
15. Learn people better
17. Don't get lonesome
18. Stay glad
23. Have company but don't waste time
31. Love everybody
32. Make up your mind
33. Wake up and fight

There would be little else on my list. Wake up and fight.