I am endlessly inspired by Maggie Mason. She has begun a movement of like-minded people trying to live wider and find joy and satsifaction in accomplishing dreams through Mighty Life Lists . Here’s mine.
Live Wider
- feel creative every day
- develop a meditation practice
come back to my yoga practice11/2010- make a Life List item happen for someone else
- rescue a greyhound
- train a service dog and/or foster a rescue dog
- have a huge party with friends and Holi colors
- go dog sledding
- be a judge on Iron Chef America
- run a marathon
- run 1000 miles in one year
- have my portrait taken by Karen
- go see The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Oriental Theater and bring all the props
- get a tattoo
- get onstage with Wilco. Even if it’s just to play the tambourine.
- find a signature scent
- skinny dip
- get nude on a nude beach with my bravest girlfriends and a lot of champagne
- get wardrobe staples that fit great in colors I love: leather jacket, perfect jeans,
pencil skirt2/2012, white shirt,boots1/2010,little black or purple dress11/2010
Keep Learning
write a food blog. Or a life blog. Or just a blog.09/2010- learn all the words to “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and “It’s the End of the World As We Know It“
- take dance lessons: ballet, hip hop, or oooooooh, flamenco!
- seriously study American Sign Language
- learn how to keep a garden (or just how to keep a plant alive)
plant/create a terrarium12/2011- learn how to re-upholster furniture
- Jump back to chatarunga from bakasana
- understand more about this humble little website: learn more about CSS/HTML/iWeb/whatever it takes OR pay someone else to explain it to me so I don’t want to collapse into tears as I pour myself a stiff drink whenever I have to update my theme/Wordpress hosting stuff. YEESH.
Grow Up
pay off my credit card02/2011- keep my credit card paid off
- complete my Auditory-Verbal Therapist certification
- buy a new car
- speak at a conference
- teach at a university
Get Outta Here!
- get Justin at least one stamp in his passport
- do another Homes for Hope build with family and friends
- go back to all the countries I’ve studied/lived in (Argentina, Spain, Mexico) with my loved ones
- see Iguazu Falls again with someone I love
- see Cuba and dance there
- go to the sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica
a ridiculous cushy wine trip. Somewhere. Anywhere.06/2011- pray at the Western Wall
- see the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio
- do a retreat at an ashram
- See a bioluminescent bay
- Italy: small towns.
- Greece.
- India.
- Go anywhere by old-school sleeper train.
Stay Connected
- get into the habit of grand loving gestures
- actively keep in touch with my friends near and far. See also: don’t be a hermit, get over social anxiety, send more cards, mail more care packages.
- have a reunion/retreat with my best friends somewhere fabulous once a year.
Cooking/Eating
- bake brioche
make the Zuni whole roast chicken and bread salad.02/2010- make a whole “Sunday Supper” from soup to nuts
- continue to cook things that scare me: October 2010: Mussels. November 2010: Soufflé. January 2012: Char siu bao.
- take a real cooking class
make marshmallows and graham crackers from scratch for s’mores07/2010get a Community Supported Agriculture share from a local farm02/2010
RESTAURANTS:
- Chez Panisse
- El Bulli (or whatever is next)
- WD-50
- Alinea
- Next
- Zuni Café 6/2011
- Anything by José Andrés
- Craft
- Sanford 8/2011
- Girl and the Goat 12/2011
Followed your link from the comment stream on Maggie’s post about the Mighty Summit…So glad I did! Your life list is, in a word, kick-ass. I hope you don’t mind me adding some (read: a lot) of your goals to my own list. If you need some ASL resources, I know of some great online dictionaries! Can’t wait to read more from you!
Thanks, Carolyn! I love your list, too!
Laura-
I will go with you to Rocky Horror! That is one of my goals in life, too. It plays up in Minneapolis… if this city ever makes your travel list : )
Loving the blog!
I just did Rocky Horror this year in Houston and was dying of delight! Also, that BANGIN’ care package you sent here was adored. Caramel balls? Devoured (mainly by Le Rooster). Alterra coffee beans? Ground and guzzled. Thank you & keep ‘em comin’ particularly if they include donuts.
ps: Iron Chef America? I’m in love. I feel that you would offer awesome critiques of liquid nitrogen infused basil.
as is only to be expected, your list is totally badass.
Totally down for the Holi colors party and the nude beach / champagne tip (bet E is in for this too). I know the somm at Craft and am working with the former somm at Chez Panisse so they’d take good care of us at either… trips?
Inspired by your care package bit. I love mail. Email me your address again?
xoxo
Holi was my favorite festival ever. I still have thika, meet me at Bradford beach March, 20th and we’ll get er done.
Hi, I came to your life list based upon a comment you made on mine. I just love checking out other peoples’ life list. So much inspiration! We have a retired race greyhound we adopted about 5 years ago. They are fantastic dogs. If you have any questions on them, I am happy to be a resource. Hooray for life lists!
Wow, very neat and inspiring. Super cool to see that you have crossed so many things off! I’m a big fan of your “get Justin at least one stamp in his passport” goal. Good luck!
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