Dare to Live

before i’m no longer mortal …

Things to do or accomplish before I die. Not comprehensive and in no particular order. (Note: for some reason, I couldn’t get it to publish this post with numbered bullets. Argh! You’ll have to trust me that there are 100 here, if you even care about those kinds of things.)

• Attend a silent meditation retreat.

• Hike the Appalachian Trail.

• Learn how to cook and be an appreciative cook.

• If cannot accomplish #3, hire a cook.

• Visit a nude beach.

• Learn to slow down.

• Make meditation and yoga a daily practice.

• Travel to every continent (minus the Antarctica)

• Meet Brad Pitt.

• Visit every state in the U.S.

• Live in a commune.

• Grow my own food.

• Live in the woods, on lots and lots of acreage, somewhere green with seasons.

• Camp on the beach.

• Birth a baby autonomously.

• Live in sustainable housing/generate our own power.

• Own a vehicle that runs on SVO.

• Live to see a woman become president.

• Live to see the day when marriage for ALL people becomes a reality.

• Learn to love veggies and fruits.

• Birth a baby head first.

• Become a healthy, conscious connoisseur of food.

• Take daily walks with my husband and/or children.

• Invent and patent something. Preferably something useful.

• Catch someone’s baby, other than my own. Just once. DONE!
  

• Have an active sex life until the day I die.

• Publish some writing.

• Astral travel again DONE! and often.

• Sky dive.

• Scuba dive.

• Create and own a wildlife/animal sanctuary.

• Homeschool my children.

• Volunteer for hospice.

• Take a cross-country road trip.

• Attend a yearly gathering with my tribe.

• Run a half-marathon.

• Donate money on a yearly basis.

• Visit the great pyramids.

• Visit Stonehenge.

• Surf.

• Learn reiki.

• Become a certified childbirth educator.

• Complete my DONA certification.

• Get LASIK surgery.

• Get hypnotized.

• Learn to play the guitar (for real this time).

• Attend a drumming circle. DONE!

• Do 100 sit ups in a row.

• Annually print a year’s worth of photos and place in albums.

• Take up photography again.

• Smoke a true peace pipe, ceremonially.

• Foster a child.

• Build a shelter with my own hands.

• Soak naked in hot springs, high in the mountains, surrounded in snow (like MB did).

• Go snowshoeing.

• Go all gray or all-white when it’s time.

• Sing in a musical revue.

• Interview my family ala StoryCorps.

• Become fluent in sign language.

• Renew my wedding vows barefoot on a mountaintop at sunset.

• Compost.

• Grow an herb garden.

• Ride a zip-line across a body of water.

• Have a tire swing in our yard.

• Build our dream home.

• Help my husband build a hefty retirement account.

• Ride in a helicopter.

• Have no debt. For a long, long time.

• Write down my nightly dreams.

• Write a children’s book depicting each of my children’s births. Have it bound and illustrated just for them (not for publication).

• Take more dance lessons with my husband.

• Stay in bed all day (willingly, of course, and preferably sooner rather than later).

• Learn archery (just for fun, not to hunt).

• Learn to drive a stick shift.

• Quit biting my nails. For good.

• Have past-life DONE! and birth regression done.

• Cry more often.

• Attend Burning Man.

• Flip a house.

• Stop being a wuss and donate blood.

• Build a really cool tree house.

• Travel to a jungle.

• Take my children to Havasupai Falls and camp for a week.

• See Wicked. DONE!
  

• Ride lots more rollercoasters.

• Never be too proud to apologize. To anyone.

• Meet Kate.

• Conquer my true fear of roaches.

• Finish reading “Atlas Shrugged”

• Teach a college course.

• Coach a speech team.

• Honor my body.

• Experience zero gravity.

• Swim with a dolphin and sit with a gorilla (not in captivity).

• Learn circular breathing and play the didgeridoo.

• Indulge myself once a year in a $1000 shopping spree. Then come home and donate a bunch of stuff.

• Create New Year’s “intentions” each year.

• Learn to sew and make a dress.

• Create and maintain a vision board with my family.

• Visit the SETI institute and the Very Large Array.