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I was really inspired today by Maggie Mason's Mighty Life List. I was also amazed by the fact that she was somehow able to get Intel to sponsor her to actually do all of the 100 things on her life list! That includes swimming with bioluminescent plankton in Puerto Rico, watching the sunrise over the Aegean and standing inside the Taj Mahal. When you really sit down to write the things you'd like to accomplish before you kick it, it really makes you think--time's flying by and every minute is an opportunity. So I decided to write my own bucket list. Here's what I came up with. What's on yours?
1. Visit all 50 states
2. Visit all 7 continents
3. Eat at El Bulli
4. Eat at The French Laundry
5. Fly in a hot air balloon
6. See the Pyramids at Giza
7. Take horseback riding lessons
8. Have my book published
9. Write a screenplay
10. Take cooking lessons with Patricia Wells in Paris
11. Stay in a cliffside hotel on Santorini
12. Be in the audience at the Oprah show
13. Go on an African safari
14. Climb Kilimanjaro
15. Run a marathon
16. Have a job where I can work from anywhere in the world
17. Start a foundation
18. Visit the Louvre, the Prado, the Musee D'Orsay, and the Uffizi
19. Have a one woman art show
20. See Georgia O'Keeffe's house
21. Be on television
22. Have a drink at an Irish pub
23. Learn to speak Italian fluently
24. Have lunch at Cafe de Flore
25. Go to the U.S. Open finals
26. Go to the World Series
27. Stay at a villa in Tuscany
28. Get a letter back from J.D. Salinger
29. Visit Peru and Machu Picchu
30. Ride in a gondola in Venice
31. Bike through Provence
32. Stay in a cottage in Scotland
33. Buy fresh flowers every week
34. Write for the New York Times
35. Go to the Savannah St. Patrick's Parade
36. Attend Mardi Gras
37. See Monet's garden at Giverny
38. Visit my cousins in New Zealand
39. Eat sushi in Japan
40. Start a Sunday supper club
41. Lead a book group
42. See Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
43. Visit Buckingham Palace
44. Live on the beach
45. Have my professional portrait taken
46. Live overseas for a year
47. Win the lottery
48. Cook all of Ina Garten's recipes
49. Make a successful souffle
50. Grow beautiful roses
51. Take a cruise around the world
52. Complete a NYTimes Sunday crossword puzzle
53. Complete a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle
54. Grow my own vegetables
55. Learn to play tennis well
56. Learn to sail
57. Learn to play golf
58. Learn to play the violin
59. Learn to play piano
60. Go white water rafting
61. Swim with dolphins
62. Go on a helicopter ride
63. Visit the Grand Canyon
64. Go to the Galapagos Islands
65. See the cherry blossoms in Washington D.C.
66. Be in Times Square for New Year's Eve
67. Celebrate Oktoberfest in Germany
68. Visit the Vatican
69. See Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
70. See the Acropolis in Athens
71. Visit the Kremlin
72. Go to the Super Bowl
73. See my book turned into a film
74. Visit the caves at Lascaux
75. See the Colisseum in Rome
76. Visit Petra, Jordan
77. Shop at Pike Place market in Seattle
78. Read all the books on my classics list
79. Learn to play chess
80. Take a painting class
81. Win a literary award
82. Build a Habitat for Humanity home83. Pay for a student to go to college
84. Check off every item on the 75 Skills Every Woman Should Master
85. Write a regular magazine column
86. Buy stock
87. Watch all the films on my Greatest Movies List
88. Fall in love
89. See my blog on the Technorati 100 list
90. Go to the Olympics
91. Go to TED Talks
92. Meet the Dalai Lama
93. Visit India
94. Take up yoga again
95. Go to the Kentucky Derby
96. Learn to meditate
97. Teach adults to read
98. Walk every day
99. Try acting
100. Have no regrets
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I'm going to savor your list for a while, then write my own. I've been blessed to have done many of the things I've wanted to do, many since my own "first year project" got unexpectedly underway when I said never again.
ReplyDeleteThank you Meri. Always love to hear from you. It's nice to be able to say that you've done many of the things you've wanted to do. I love that there's nothing, or no one, to stop us from doing whatever it is that our hearts desire. Keep in touch :)
ReplyDeleteMargaret- Thanks for following the blog! Glad that you are liking what you're reading. Come back often.
I want to do the phytoplankton thing! What are you doing for spring break?! ;)
ReplyDeleteI invite you to visit India :)
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking about carnival in Venice in February. What are you doing between February 2 and 16?
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