Life List or 100 Things To Do before I Die
1. take a writing workshop in taos, new mexico
2. be debt free
3. spend some time in portland with my soul friend update: spent a week in november 2008. update: fully intend on doing it again.
4. spend a week during our cold frost winter in hawaii or mexico or cuba or someplace hot and tropical
5. stare out at the blue water in greece
6. swoon over tulips in the netherlands
7. lose all the weight i gained while on bed rest pregnant with henry and eliot and the weight i gained while living with the grief.
8. lose the bit of weight i gained when i quit smoking over four years ago
9. join the masters swim club
10. complete an iron man triathalon
11. bike from jasper to banff and marvel at the crispness of the rocky mountains
12. take surf lessons in tofino from surf sister
13. take art classes
14. finish writing my novel
15. publish a book of poetry
16. white water rafting trip in golden, british columbia
17. drive to alaska
18. become a grandmother that my grandchildren want to hang out with (not for a long while though, tee hee)
19. grow old gracefully
20. keep the funky fun in my life
21. write every morning for a year
22. turn my backyard into a garden oasis
23. turn my frontyard into a garden oasis
24. run in a race
25. ride my bike to work everyday during spring, summer and fall.
26. continue to do some form of exercise five days a week for the next year, for the year after that, for the rest of my life
27. clean out all my closets
28. clear away the junk from the top of my fridge completed, it feels so freeing
29. find and join a bookclub start in february 2010 :-)
30. start a new photoblog just for me started new photoblog in 2009
31. reinstitute new boots on my birthday every year (even if husband thinks i own too many as it is) done. even got husband to purchase new pair november 2009
32. get a new tattoo on my upper arm
33. get my bellybutton re-pierced changed mind and got my nose pierced instead :-)
34. get two more daisy outline tattoos for henry and eliot to match the one i have for aiden which means sucking up the pain of the needle on my rib get a branch with two cherry blossoms tatoo for henry and eliot
35. sit in a cafe in spain and write mad poetry
36. learn to snowboard
37. have my own studio completed, i finally have a room of my own, december 2009
38. take up cross country skiing
39. learn to scuba dive
40. go skydiving again (sorry jen but i really loved it)
41. get a clean bill of health on my asthma so i can do 39 and 40 (am convinced that diet and exercise are the key and have been off my steroids for a month now, crossing fingers)
42. accept the beauty that is me
43. tell my gremlins to take a hike
44. invite more possibility into my life
45. continue to be honest with myself and those around me
46. have another photography show
47. and another photography show
48. run a marathon
49. teach again in some capacity (i really loved teaching)
50. travel to vietnam
51. walk the path of my dreams in england, the dreams i had while working on my english literature degree
52. read more philosophy again
53. do one brave thing every week
54. paint at least once a month for a year
55. make a dream vision board completed 2009, its happily hanging on my fridge!
56. learn to play the drums (sheesh, i mean i have the most awesome drummer living in my house)
57. practice the guitar more
58. meditate in india
59. singing lessons i love my voice lessons, they are teaching me how to live!
60. sing in public
61. send my poetry out for publication (i stopped when my twins died and its time to get out there again)
62. write letters to people not just emails
63. stop caring what other people think of me and my somewhat eccentric ways
64. wear more purple update: i have gone purple crazy, purple is the new black ... i am loving the purple me
65. go to scotland to meet a certain photoblog friend and his wee family
66. go to boston and hang out with a couple i cherish
67. blog world tour ~ drink tea with a list of bloggers that i heart
68. attend an art retreat september 2009, squam baby!!
69. new york baby september 2009 ... was a dream come true, loved it!
70. practice my japanese in japan
71. travel to germany where duke and i both have roots
72. have a novel published
73. grow old with my love, snuggled into our hearts
74. continue finding beauty and magic in other people
75. listen more, talk less (eep!)
76. meditate daily
77. italy, a dream since childhood
78. romantic weekend in the french countryside and paris of course
79. get off the grid as much as possible ... a romantic yet entirely green notion that becomes more and more doable every year.
80. canning from my garden
81. make bread from scratch
82. have a completely present free christmas december 2008 and the tradition continues!
83. buy less
84. buy handmade, independent artistry a habit that i have totally embraced!
85. give more to the charities i believe in
86. make a documentary
87. make another short film
88. drink more water
89. eliminate the clutter in my life, let go of things that don't matter fall/winter 2009 but suspect this will be an ongoing endeavour
90. find a good home for the kickass can go up a mountain stroller, car seat and bassinet that are sitting in their original boxes in our basement completed january 2009
91. have a bowl filled with seaglass, i currently have no seaglass but long for it in a way i don't even understand. completed september 2009, the experience was magical and so is my collection of beauty
92. honor my feelings and allow myself to be whatever it is that i am
93. photograph the architecture in chicago and detroit, so very different yet compelling and beautiful
94. encourage others more
95. stop wasting my time on people who don't understand me and don't want to
96. dance under the moonlight with true abandon
97. stop eating processed foods
98. continue reaching out to people even when i fear rejection
99. live a life filled with compassion
100. live in the moment fully