Quotes, Links & a List

Just some random stuff that's been bopping around my head...

• "If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." - Tallulah Bankhead
• "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." - Morrie Schwartz
• "Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul." - Wayne Dyer
• "Don't ask what the world needs.  Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman

Fun blogs

• Mila's Daydreams
• Catalog Living

60+ Things - A Life List

Two bloggers I follow, Mighty Girl and Making it Lovely, have Life Lists, aka things they'd like to do during their lifetime.  Being inspired by them, here's my list (in no particular order):

1. Plant a sunflower garden
2. Plant a poppy garden
3. Plant a vegetable garden (completed June 2010)
4. Bake bread from scratch
5. Attend college in New England (completed May 1999)
6. Swim with dolphins
7. Run a 5k (scheduled for Oct. 2010)
8. Run a 10k (scheduled for Oct. 2011)
9. Back packing adventure, multi-day
10. Publish an article
11. Travel Europe (completed 1997-1998)
12. Live in Europe (completed 1997-1998)
13. Travel by myself (completed summer 1997)
14. Attend the bi-annual festival in Marostica, Italy
15. Take Aggie to Paris
16. Take Jason & Aggie to Venice
17. Visit Antartica
18. Visit Lhasa, Tibet
19. See the Taj Mahal and drink Chai in India
20. Get a tattoo (completed May 2000)
21. Visit Bali
22. Learn to Tango in Argentina
23. Visit the Galapagos Islands
24. See the Moai on Easter Island
25. Visit the pyramids in Egypt
26. Attend stunt car driving school
27. Sing with Sleater-Kinney
28. Own a house (completed Dec. 2005)
29. Learn to scuba dive
30. Care for a big dog (i.e., Great Dane, Irish Wolf Hound) - woof!
31. Visit Grandma Cora's grave
32. Run for an elected position
33. Attend the Olympics
34. Give birth (completed 10/10/09)
35. Raise a child (started 10/10/09)
36. Ride in a dog sled
37. Drink real Champagne in the Champagne Valley of France
38. Take a dip in a hot springs in Iceland
39. Go nightswimming (completed August 1997)
40. See a Viking ship in Denmark
41. Kayak the fjords of Norway
42. Walk the Great Wall of China
43. Participate in a traditional tea ceremony in Japan
44. Help baby turtles make it to the ocean
45. Drive the AL-CAN Highway
46. Send a telegram
47. Touch a whale
48. Get my Master's degree (completed Dec. 2003)
49. Visit Taos, New Mexico
50. Visit the Isle of Women, Mexico
51. Visit Lake Ponchatrain, LA
52. Visit the Statute of Liberty and the Guggenheim in NYC
53. Sleep in a hut over the ocean
54. Wear a bikini in public
55. Get another tattoo
56. Own a Prius (completed Oct. 2008)
57. See a manatee close up
58. Visit The Getty
59. Travel via Zip Line through a rain forest
60. Visit Andorra
61. Live in a foreign country again
62. Own my own business
63. Visit Antelope Slot Canyon in Page, AZ
64. Serve as an Executive Director or CEO
65. See the Terracotta Army