2. Write a book. I have always wanted to write a book, something leaning towards fantasy with an allegorical feel. Derived from real life experiences or just imagination? That is yet to be decided!
3. Record a cd of the music I've written.
4. Go Skydiving
5. Plant a garden
6. Travel the world while documenting my time in it by writing music, taking photographs, writing poetry, and stories...this I think is a life-long adventure.
7. Become fluent in another language
8. Travel across Canada in an old VW! (is that not every Canadian's wish?)
9. Walk where Jesus walked.
10. Read. Read. Read. Read how other people are interpreting this crazy world, read the poets, classical literature, read from the philosophers and theologians, read why people do what they do, or how we have no idea why we do what we do! And the following is Mary Oliver's advice:
"Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it."
Of course there is more than this, but here are the first things that come to mind.
Most of all I want to look at life and see it. See the things that nobody else notices, and count the moments that are quickly forgotten. I think that all of life is a waking up, each day draws us closer to being more alive; if we let it. I don't want to sleep through my life and suddenly wake up at 80 wondering where it went. I want to live fully now. I think that means many different things and looks different for different people. Right now for me, it means waking up, being thankful for the sun that shines into my big yellow kitchen, for the long fields I can see from my window; the honking of canadian geese; the laughter of my roommates; sitting out on the deck while the sun sets with a cup of tea; the hope of tomorrow.
