Dreams, Desires & Drives
(In no particular order other than the random stream of thoughts, bunny-holes, and turns my brain took.)
- Visit all the states in the USA
- Learn to shoot a rifle
- Participate in an equestrian competition
- Learn the art of pottery
- Finish embroidering the pillowcases I started for my hope chest
- Learn to play poker
- Go skydiving
- Learn to play chess (well)
- Go rock climbing (in nature rather than REI)
- Sew a quilt
- Spoil my grandchildren
- Participate in an archaeological dig
- Sing the national anthem (and not just for myself in the shower)
- Be the world to someone
- Watch my child's first steps
- Record a CD with voice and flute
- Learn to cook well
- Visit the House on the Rock
- See the Grand Canyon
- Tour Europe
- See the Hall of Mirrors
- Be awed by a million sunsets
- Finish the circle quilt before Jess finishes hers
- Learn to waltz
- Snowboard in Colorado
- Learn to jump on a wake board
- Try surfing
- Buy a macro lens
- Spend a summer on a traditional family farm
- Take a nap in a canoe
- Have a yard with a hammock in it
- Learn to play a song on the bagpipes and accordion
- Buy a brand new car with all the whistles
- Have a photo published
- Set up a darkroom in my house
- Get a henna tattoo to curb my desire for a real one
- Hike on a glacier
- Go mountain biking (over actual mountainous terrain)
- Visit a rain forest
- Have a mud fight with friends
- Read through the entire Bible chronologically in three months
- Learn to like vegetables
- Renovate an old farmhouse
- Learn to garden without killing any plants
- Become a soccer mom
- Go on a hot air balloon ride
- Convince my parents that downsizing is good
- Know the words to more songs than Julie or my Mother
- Have a maid (if only for a day)
- Develop the inability to sleep in
- Learn to carve wood and then make something (a nativity scene? a chair?)
- Make a ship in a bottle
- Visit Fes
- Go skinny-dipping
- Toilet paper someone
- Visit an Amish homestead
- Visit the art museums in Chicago, New York City, Paris and London
- Watch all the Godfather movies
- Watch all the Star War movies in one sitting
- Act somewhere, in something
- Fly a kite
- Take an art class with the medium of charcoal
- Catch and gut a fish (no matter how much I may squeal and squirm)
- Learn to read bass clef
- Learn the constellations
- Turn some heads no matter what age I grow to be
- Scrapbook all my travels
- Learn to play the harmonica
- Understand God's grace
- See something on Broadway
- Never be so out of fashion that my children cringe
4 comments:
You can cross of skinny dipping and I have a photo to prove it. :-) Mom
Let's see, some thoughts:
sunsets--have you started counting? Have you calculated how many days an average person lives to see if this is even possible?
nap in a canoe--where on earth did you get this idea from, and who's steering while you sleep?!
Hammock's taken care of, so modification should read: have a yard with trees perfectly spaced in order to hang my hammock
what kind of tattoo would you get if you did get one?
You can't LEARN to garden without killing plants. Failure is part of the learning process (and the beauty of unpredictable weather and plant genetics!)
why is "convince myself that downsizing is good" not on the list? :-)
The beauty of having a maid is that you tend to tidy your room to near perfection so that you don't think she is judging you on your untidiness!
Why are shoes not a desirable wooden goal? I still want to make my own clogs, and Amy would surely join in, too!
Skinny dipping is very awkward, even under the cloak of night with close friends, but, yes, it's strangely freeing once you get used to it!
How many bathroom breaks do you foresee during your star wars marathon?
I believe you're a famous actress already according to many Christmas churchgoers!
When you fly a kite, make sure it's not a cheap Kmart purchase on a not-terribly windy day with an 8year old who just wants to drag it on the ground!
If you fish for piraña, I guarantee you'll catch one!
You must be able to read bass clef after all those years in ensemble!
Your list is quite impressive and inspirational, but I fear that I'd have nothing terribly important to put on mine! I'm too practical a dreamer! Good luck with yours, though--let me know if I can help out with any of them!
Okay, I did the math, and not to burst your bubble, but you'd need to live 2739.7 years in order to see a million sunsets. You could easily do 20,000--God willing, and provided you also develop the inability to sleep in pretty soon!
skydiving with sheep !
i feel like all my teaching of yoU people has been a waste of time !
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