100 things: The Question

"What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver

The List

write and publish a novel
run a marathon - 2011
design my own house
shave my head - 2011
get a scuba license
become fluent in French
get a painting into a gallery
fly in a fighter jet
learn sign language
own a horse
swim with wild dolphins
do a 360 turn on a snowboard
drive across Canada through every province - 2013
visit every country in the world
adopt an animal from a shelter - 2016
learn to juggle - 2013
raft down a world class river
see a professional hockey game - 2011
see a show on Broadway
kayak with orcas (Haida Gwaii)
live by myself for a year
live without a t.v. set for a year - 2010
join Big Sisters
learn to play cello or violin
own an original work of art
become a parent
drive a ridiculously expensive sports car on the Autobahn
try bartending - 2012
ride a camel through a desert
see the Grand Canyon - 2010
live in Europe
ride in a helicopter
take ballroom dancing lessons
earn a black belt in a martial art
read the entire Bible - 2011
start a paper or magazine
hike the West Coast Trail - 2021
prepare a five-course meal for friends
write a top-ten single
attend the Olympics - 2010
earn a Master's degree
learn to sail and work on a tall ship (or yacht)
complete a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle - 2008
do 50 push-ups and 100 sit-ups
make a fire without matches
go to Burning Man
learn the constellations
be a guest on a talk show
play Classical Gas on the guitar
get a tattoo - 2018
enter a fencing competition
write and send a love letter
witness a total solar eclipse (April 8, 2024)
start a 21st century Bloomsbury Group
get a motorcycle license and a motorcycle (or Vespa)
work in a florist shop
go on a police ride-along - 2008
be nude at a nude beach - 2016
direct a play
organize a massive city-wide car rally
go dog sledding - 2018
volunteer in Africa
start a small business - 2012
grow a vegetable patch
hear the Gloria in St. Peter's Basilica
do a clowning workshop at the San Fransisco School of Circus Arts
save someone's life
send a message in a bottle
sleep under the stars in the middle of nowhere
get an 'A' in Math
give one rousing, inspiring public speech
make a detailed family tree
busk for a day and then give the money to a charity
have my portrait painted
spend the holidays volunteering at a soup kitchen
make the front page of a national newspaper
create a website
do amateur night at a comedy club
stay in the best suite at a five star hotel
host a Luminara party
write my name in wet cement - 2008
have a speaking role in a feature film
start a garage band
go crazy at a huge rock concert
do a one-month kickboxing training camp in Thailand
experience a working dude ranch
read Moby Dick, - 2008 War and Peace, Ulysses, and all the works of Shakespeare
go on an African safari (again)
get over my fear of heights and go rock climbing
knit a scarf - 2010
take a photograph good enough to frame
volunteer as a first-aid attendant
see the northern lights - 2018
raise a guide dog puppy
earn a PhD
go skydiving - 2022
become a vegetarian – 2014
earn a cool nickname
start a book club - 2010
milk a cow - 2011

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Thursday, December 30, 2010

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