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Thursday, June 28, 2012

To Miss & Not to Miss



Among her many kick-ass writings, Nora Ephron left two lists. One was a list of the things she’d miss and the other the things she wouldn't. 
They inspired me to make lists of my own. 
Here they are as of June 28, 2012 (I assume they will change)
Things I Won’t Miss
Waiting
Trying on clothes
Mosquitoes
Hot flashes
Tech support
The need for tech support
Headaches
Insomnia
World news
Rejection
Religion
Fear 
Grief
People dying
Pets dying
Traffic


Things I Will Miss 
(besides family & friends)
Chocolate
Coffee
Smell of cut grass
Crickets
Inappropriate giggles  
Gardening
Reading in bed
Bunnyness
Wally and other dogness
A long awaited pee
Spring
Foot rubs
Bread
Laughing
Pie
Watermelon
Writing
Hanging out in bed with my kids
Sitting under shady threes
Comfy chairs
Walking on the beach with my Freen
Fireworks
Fireflies

What are yours? 
xo 
Amy


P.S. People do keep dying. It almost makes a gurl feel like it could happen to anyone. 
P.P.S. Keep breathing!

12 comments:

The Pen and Ink Blogspot said...

I'll miss warm, moist chocolate chip cookies.

I won't miss humidity.

Sincerely,
Corpus Delicti

Karen said...

Will Miss: getting into a hot shower after being freezing
Won't Miss: being called ma'am (I assert that am now and will always be too young to be called ma'am.)

Susan B James said...

sitting in my garden doing a jigsaw puzzle.
reading.
jacaranda trees.
Brownies.
I won't miss diets.
spiders and all wingy things that flutter near my face.

Judema said...

Won't miss
sweat
dog poo

Will miss
rain & fog
guacamole

Anonymous said...

Claudia Flumplutz says:

Won't miss:
bureaucracy
honking cars
paying bills
coconut cake
crowded airplanes
stinky garbage
olives
country music
rude people
sirens and car alarms
cigarette smoke
the DMV
Rush Limbaugh
colonoscopies
Adam Sandler movies



Will miss:
reading a great novel
drizzly Sundays in bed
warm chocolate chip cookies
purple bougainvilleas
olive oil and freshly baked bread
singing along with the radio
crossword puzzles
fireworks
laughing so hard i snort
my cat's purring
the smell of new babies
lemon drop martinis
sweet potatoes
small yellow butterflies
Joni Mitchell's Blue
Chai from Swork
watching whole seasons of TV shows with my kids snuggled on my bed
roses
my dog snoring ever so slightly
the ocean on a foggy day
arugula
Bruce Springsteen's The River
Jon Stewart

Word said...

won't miss:
clutter
picking up dog poop
parking garages
reality tv
shopping malls
junk mail and junk phone calls
advertising
know-it-alls

will miss:
music
reading a really good book
traveling
looking forward to something
hugs
daydreaming
walking in the sand
campfires and everything that goes along with that
giving the perfect gift
happy hours

Robert S. said...

I will miss:
Out of control laughter over stupid things.
Steak.
Really BIG weather.
Swimming in cold water.
Elmo's face.
My friends/loved ones/cousins who live far away (but I'm used to that).
Complaining (it's free).
Sex.
Weed.
Buying too much produce at farm stands.

I will NOT miss:
Picking up branches after a storm.
The gym. (I don't go now and I don't miss it).
Smoking cigarettes.
Prattle of very small children.
Politics in any form.
Consumerism as a lifestyle.
The telephone.
Weeding.

Amy Goldman Koss said...

Thanks for the great lists! Keep them coming!
xo
amy

Anonymous said...

from Gordo Ruiz ...


Won't miss:

doing my taxes
software bugs that no one ever fixes
the whole thing with ex-wives
things too disgusting to even mention ewwww
dental worry
automobiles
TSA inspection at the airport
political lies told by republican toads
mental decay of loved ones as they age


Will miss

breathing life into a new project
the magic of photography & improving photos
movie trailers that perfectly encapsulate the movie & then you don't have to see the movie at all!
the phrase "accidentally on purpose"
Gail Collins writing about Seamus the dog.
Jokes like "how do you prepare the chicken?" "We tell him right up front he's not going to make it."
Making up captions for LOLcats
sunsets & sunrises
kids succeeding in new things & striking out on their own
learning cool new moves
Doonesbury and Dilbert
the deep joy of the happy people around me
playing with the dog
swimming
drawing pictures of old TV's and martini glasses
hummingbirds
kick-ass movie lines e.g.
"I have a bad feeling about this"
"If you strike me down I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine"
and who can forget
"I'll have what *she's* having"

Amy Goldman Koss said...

My apologies to anyone else who can't seem to post comments here. (I've been getting emails saying it won't let you unless you have an account?????)
Grrr! Add THAT to my things I Will not miss list!

Kerry Madden said...

WHAT I WON'T MISS...

Waiting up for teenagers/adult children to check in/ come home
when you don't know where they are.

Doing bills and money worries

College Tuition Loans

Shopping for Christmas presents on December 22nd

Crappy decades-old carpet

Rejection

Silence on submissions that goes on for months.

Feeling like a loser

Book-hawking in the wrong places.

Traffic

The word "smirk"

Flying

Petty people (although they make good material.)

Fox News

Meanness

Bananas or scrambled eggs or liver



WHAT I WILL MISS

Red birds

Kiffen
Lucy
Flannery
Norah

My parents

Keely
Duffy
Casey

Mama Frances and all the Lunsfords

My friends...so many good friends

Walks in Griffith Park

Good Coffee

Pie, oh pie...blueberry, cherry, lemon meringue...

Funny kid faces

Sniffing babies heads

Rich southern accents, lovely Manchester accents, any old accent with stories...

Olive, sweet dog, Olive

Reading in bed with Kiffen

Yellow roses

Smoky Mountains

Fiddles, banjos, mandolins

Joey's Pancake House in Maggie Valley

Music

Thunderstorms on a front porch

Wood-burning fireplace

Allegria on Sunset's Tortilla soup

Watching movies, going to the movies, Junior Mints at the movies and Red Vines

Plays, beautiful plays

The Hollywood Bowl

Terry Gross

This American Life

The National Storytelling Festival

Alabama backroads

Ningbo, China (I would like to see it again one more time)

Mariachi music on Sunset by a Mexican Elvis named Raul

The Bronte Parsonage

Flannery O'Connor's home
Seasons

Writing Stories Everyday

New York City

Monroeville

A glass of wine at night

Hot coffee in the morning

Turkey - it wasn't long enough to see the Aegean, the Bospherus

Travel

Trees

Sun

Friends who make me laugh

So much more...

MarkLWilliams said...

Yeah, bread when it's just-baked. I won't miss money (well, I'm getting used to missing it now!) and its discontents...

...and yeah, hanging out with kids in bed, or in pj's around the house on lazy days... dogness, full moons, good red wine, good kisses... (been missing those too of late)... lots of missable things, really....