My Bucket List

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"
— Mary Oliver (New and Selected Poems)

1-Stand on the White Cliffs of Dover

2- Make Dave Matthews laugh

3- Go to Africa. Learn from their resilience and spirit.

4- Love completely and deeply

5- Find a vocation that I #4

6- Write a song

7- Write a symphony

8- Go to culinary school

9- Visit a hot spring in Japan

1o- Take my grandmother back to England

11- Learn Russian

12- Write a book

13- Make a movie

14- Go back to Eastern Europe and explore

15- Bike across the US....or just down the east coast

16- Learn to surf.

17- Find the magic in this world.

18- Never let the dreamer inside of myself die.

I have not done any of these things completely yet. But I feel so much appreciation for the fact that they are even possible. I've forgotten what it's like to dream. And now I feel reawakened.

"When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world."
— Mary Oliver