It started back in my teens with countries I wanted to visit. Then it expanded into wishes, then began to include accomplishments. Now it embraces all that I want to have and be and do in my life.
* Live in Italy or France * Walk a through-hike * Write a book * Follow the Silk Road * Make wine * Teach English in China * Build a cabin * Be competent outdoors * Run a race * Touch the Amazon * Eat a durian * Learn to play the harmonica * Be ready to save a human life * Learn how to service my car * Do a hundred crunches every day * Have a bicycle as my sole means of transportation * Fast * Follow the blues from NYC > Chicago > St Louis > Memphis > New Orleans * Swim in the Pacific, naked. * Interview an influence * Live on a sailboat * Grow my own vegetables * Hike hut to hut * Fly fish * Forgive, often
* Have a pair of shoes custom-made * Kayak the coast of British Columbia * Publish a photograph * Build a table/desk/bookcase * Juggle * Know at least 15 constellations & their mythology * Sleep in a hammock * Design a complete wardrobe for myself * Navigate by map & compass only * Compose a song * Heat only with firewood * Cultivate a herb garden * Skydive * Make someone else’s day * Laugh every day * Learn the trees, flowers, wildlife, geography and history of where I live * Help women who want/need it * Streak * Go on African safari * Create art from nature
* Make a line of greeting cards * Have a large-scale outdoor installation * Make a great vegetarian soup * Learn how to ride a motorcycle/scooter * Increase my vocabulary * Support a cause I believe in * Perform a story or poem for an audience * Go, with no particular destination in mind * Make lampshades * Memorize a piece from Shakespeare * Hastens bed – King Size * Live in the city AND the country, simultaneously * Meditate and be still every day * Beatriz Milhazes painting * Curate my gallery * DJ * Keep my creative juices flowing * Spend a long weekend at Blackberry Farm
* Eat when I’m hungry and sleep when I’m tired * Passionate kisses * Build a community space: writer’s retreat, artist colony, etc… * Be the best aunt I can * Learn to Surf * Spend a few months in India * Explore Cambodia, Laos, & Vietnam * Have a job like Verlyn Klinkenborg * Design my own home with an architect (outdoor shower, bluestone patio, Japanese bath) * Buy a beautiful Brooklyn brownstone * Paint and write with audacity * Live with awe and reverence * Start a charitable foundation * Open a print shop * Appreciate all I have, all the time
WHAT’S ON YOUR LIST? I WANT TO KNOW.
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allison huyet
/ 10 December 2010I wish I could lay out my wish list as beautifully as you did yours. What kind of dot-org interests you?
Kellie
/ 8 January 2011@Allison ~ forgive my delayed response. I love all the new sites that gather together multiple charities – one stop donating, if you will. I’ve given the largest chunks to Share Our Strength and Heifer, International, and the ACLU. There are many more – I also like to support people I know personally who are raising money for their particular cause. In the future, I want to create a foundation that supports creative prosperity, food security, and children’s issues. Happy New Year to you!
Sue Cartwright
/ 4 October 2011No cries of outrage or niggles here, Kellie – just oodles of encouragement, I love this – what a fabulous list … go get em !
Kellie
/ 6 October 2011Sue~
The funny thing is every time I cross one off this list, I add 2 more! What’s at the top of your list?
Thanks for reading adn commenting – it means a lot you took the time.
🙂
warrenbobrow1
/ 7 October 2011I want to be about telling great stories through the memories of scent and taste. When I think of Greece, I think of bubbling pots of lamb and tomatoes. I can taste it to this day. When I think about Africa, I think of curry and potatoes, cumin and saffron- with influence of France.
I want to remember and to be able to write about it.