Here are the 25 27 things I want to do before I die:
- Publish a memoir
- Take Dee anywhere in the world she wants to go
- Learn how to play the banjo
- Go back to Granada for a month and retrace all the places I haunted when I lived there
- Hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon with pack animals
- Go to the Lightening Field
- Do an all-day silent retreat
- Learn (really learn) how to play poker
- Carve and paint a bulto
- Take a full-moon walk along the river with Jim and girls
- Paint the walls of my home with faded pigments that remind me of pomegranates, quince, and violet morning glories
- Create a compound where I love to be always and where people visit but don’t want to leave
- Tell my father’s story
- Renew my vows with Jim
- Build an horno or maybe a private chapel
- Baptise my daughters
- Take Em anywhere in the world she wants to go
- Learn calligraphy
- Stop worrying about how I look
- Make a mosaic of a saint
- Be accepted into and show at the Spanish Market
- Become proficient with internet technology and tools
- Really learn how to use a digital camera
- Be absolutely secure when I call myself a writer
- Stop worrying about what others think of me
- Know in my heart who my favorite authors are and read all his/her/their works
- Mine from my sisters everything they know about me and my life
-from Topic post, WRITING TOPIC – DO OR DIE TRIANGLE
Interesting, ybonesy. Have you crossed off a few items? Added new ones? Decided you don’t want an item or two on your list any longer?
I have a list of 100 from a few years ago. Thinking I’ll skim a few journal and see if I can find it.
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Yes, we wrote these a while back, even before our blog went live.
I have crossed off #12. Since this was published we happened upon a wonderful older ranch-style home on almost nine acres, which is developed like a wildlife preserve. We weren’t looking to buy and were, in fact, in the process of renovating our old place, but we fell in love and here we are.
I’m a good way to completing #s 22, 23, and 24. I still want to become way more proficient on Photoshop.
I’ve worked on an outline and research toward #1. I am constantly working on #s 26 and 27.
I’m feeling like I might need to replace #s 3, 5, 11 (my house is painted the colors I want), 21 (my art has evolved and I’m not sure that’s the venue for me).
Thanks for asking. 8)
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Hey, let us know if you find that old list of yours. I’d love to see it!!
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ybonesy, you’ve made a lot of progress on your list, too. It’s so good to go back and read these. You can see personal, emotional, creative growth. Yes, and to think we wrote these way before red Ravine even ever went live. And here we are 2 years later. Can you believe it?
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