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I’ve been everywhere, man. But where am I going?

07.22.2014 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

To my astonishment, I just realized that in the last 12 months, I have visited 22 U.S. states and three foreign countries. And on no one mission or type of mission—and in fact no two or three or four.

Am I searching for something, running from something, or just suffering from a kind of spiritual spasticity?

I don't know. But it seems to me I'm getting to an age where a person should start organizing his energies, pointing them in one general direction, and not a dozen.

I'm resolving to make this the year of that. I'm going to be home more Sundays this year, and read more of my favorite kinds of self-help articles, the New York Times obituaries.

Everything I do, I'll ask: Does this fit into the obit? (Perhaps I'll invent a machine to wear on my wrist: the FitObit®.)

If it couldn't possibly—or if it shouldn't ever—I'm not doing it in the first place, because I don't have time.

Yeah, that's gonna be my slogan for the year. David Murray: Writing my obit every day.

Yeah, more on that later. I'm off for an early-morning round of golf.

"An avid golfer, Murray liked to tee off at dawn, to get to his writing desk by nine …."

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