Naturally I have spent a little time making a life list. Some people call this a bucket list, but I think that's a morbid term, and besides, my brain goes immediately to the cheesy Morgan Freeman movie. I first wrote this particular life list almost exactly a year ago, and I thought the time was right to revisit it. I'll write done next to the stuff I finished and put a line through the stuff I no longer care about. You with me?
1. Go to Alaska
2. Go to Hawaii
3. Go to the Jaguar reserve in Belize
4. Go on an art museum tour in Berlin
5. Finish Jordan's quilt done
6.
7. Finish my first novel
8. Publish a short story
9. Publish my first novel
10. Get my LMP in progress
11. Teach BodyTalk modules 1&2
12. Make my living through my healing practice and my creative work in progress
13. Learn Spanish
14. Do a half triathlon in progress
15. Hike from Snoqualmie to Stevens on the PCT
16. Take the family to Yellowstone
17. Learn to make some of my own clothes
18. Learn encaustic in progress
19.
20. Have a Massachusetts family reunion
21. Go to New Zealand
22. Fly first class
23. Go to the next BodyTalk conference
24. Buy a house
25. Walk the John Wayne trail from Ellensburg to Thorp
26. Get my MFA in creative writing (maybe)
27. Learn how to make a decent website in progress
28. Learn how to make Vietnamese noodle soup
29. Go on a one-month road trip
30. Go on one round-the-world plane trip
31. See Bali
32. See Tokyo
33. Take the Trans-Siberian railroad
34. Write a book about conscious prosperity
35. Write an e-book about personal transformation
36. Get new carpet in our apartment done
37. Build a chicken coop and install three laying hens
38. Learn to ride a horse by having my own horse
39. Meet Teesha Moore done
Here's what's totally cool about this list. I don't remember wanting to put in new carpet, but just three weeks ago we did. I thought it was a revolutionary idea at the time, fresh out of the ether. Likewise, I can't mark the half-triathlon as done, because I didn't actually run it, but I did train for it half the summer--again, with no conscious memory that I had set this as an intention. I'd like to say I've accomplished becoming an LMP but I'm still waiting for the State of Washington to give me the thumbs-up. I finished Jordan's quilt at Christmas and now I'm working on Maya's.
Meanwhile, I forgot that I want to learn to make Pho and I had to cross out the Collage Camp because I tried and failed and I don't want to try again. I learned I'd rather go to an art retreat than host one. I no longer want to have a solo fiber art show at the EDG building here in town, because that building was sold, and instead I've been entering juried shows.
It's encouraging to see the life list isn't static. It isn't a contract, either. However, it does seem to be like shooting an arrow of intention into the future. Then some months later you come around the bend and find it sticking out of a tree with a big flag saying, "You're right where you wanted to be!" And that is one fine feeling.
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