I recieved an email a while back asking you to list the 30 things dream of doing in your life - similar I guess to the movie, the Bucket List, or to the final lecture by the inspiring college professor who died of pancreatic cancer. At first it seemed like a trite thing to do, but it made me start thinking about what my dreams really were. So here are a few of mine
I'd love to visit Austria, and picnic on the lush hilltop from the scene of The Sound of Music where Maria is writing the Doe, a Deer, song with the children. I'd like to spin around on the hilltop, like she does in the opening scene of the movie.
I'd love to have fish and chips in pubs and sip in tea houses in out of the way places in Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and take a holiday to write from a mossy cottage near the sea.
I'd love to get a master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, once the kids are on there way into the world, and I'm more seasoned in life's challenges.
I'd love to:
Read every classic worth reading.
Watch every Masterpiece Theatre work worth watching.
Get training in hospice, and be present with families experiencing the sacred seg-way from the temporal to the eternal.
Lead a women's retreat using the material "Quieting a Noisy Soul" Combine silence, sharing, rest and study.
Become a skilled kayak fisherwoman.
Play tennis in a women's league
More to come as I think of them....
Try this exercise yourself. At first you struggle to think of one, and then the ideas start linking elbows and coming in reams.
2 comments:
This is a great idea, Julia! And actually, the dreams you listed are quite doable. One of mine is to travel the Ring Road around Iceland. Need to overcome my fear of flying, though!
Iceland...Brrrr. But How fascinating. You have overcome that fear before, haven't you? I seem to remember you going abroad.
You are right, I think some version of these is quite doable. It's great to stay in touch with ideas or opportunities which enthrall one.
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