Happy New Year! What better way to welcome in a new year than with resolutions-- someone else's resolutions. That someone else is the inimitable Woody Guthrie, who wrote this list in 1942:
1. Work more and better
2. Work by a schedule
3. Wash teeth if any
4. Shave
5. Take bath
6. Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk
7. Drink very scant if any
8. Write a song a day
9. Wear clean clothes — look good
10. Shine shoes
11. Change socks
12. Change bed cloths often
13. Read lots good books
14. Listen to radio a lot
15. Learn people better
16. Keep rancho clean
17. Dont get lonesome
18. Stay glad
19. Keep hoping machine running
20. Dream good
21. Bank all extra money
22. Save dough
23. Have company but dont waste time
24. Send Mary and kids money
25. Play and sing good
26. Dance better
27. Help win war — beat fascism
28. Love mama
29. Love papa
30. Love Pete
31. Love everybody
32. Make up your mind
33. Wake up and fight
And though they may be someone else's resolutions, I plan to keep several of them myself (I will wash my teeth, for example). I hope you decide to change your socks, stay glad, and keep your hoping machine running. Happy 2022!
(I found this wonderful list at The Marginalian.)