Peevish List

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So there’s this Mighty Girl. I don’t know her, but I feel like I do, having read many many of her lovely and funny words. She has this list of things she would love to do in her life, which is not only a very cool idea, she pretty much throws open her arms and says Hey, I want to see your Mighty List too! She appears to be crossing stuff off her list at a good clip, but in no way does her list seem to have been construed for ease of crossing-offness. And neither will mine be. Here’s to dreaming.

1. Run with the bulls of Pamplona (from a terrace perched right above the action, with a cocktail in hand and a red flower behind my ear).

2. Learn to love sake. (Maybe I need to get off the drinks here).

3. Shake my booty at Carnival in Rio (O.K., not quite yet – Caipiriñas?)

4. Write a book.

5. See the Red Hot Chili Peppers perform live.

6. Hike the Inca Trail and watch the sun rise and set over Machu Pichu.

7. Go to a soccer game in Buenos Aires with Saint James.

8. Go to yoga classes with my daughters because they want to.

9. Touch the spine of a book I wrote in a real book store.

10. See the Grand Canyon.

11. Have a dress tailor made for me by a tiny seamstress with an accent – the dress would be the color of sapphires or rubies. Hell, make it one of each.

12. Go to India.

13. Take a cooking class in Italy or Vietnam.

14. Finish learning how to snowboard.

15. Go snowboarding out west where I can carve for hours.

16. Take a humid road trip through the South for Gospel, Blues and barbeque and drink a tall, cool glass of lemonade in the shade of a Southern Magnolia.

17. Learn to meditate.

18. Learn to nap.

19. Visit farmers markets in at least twenty five different cities, near and far.

20. Learn Italian.

21. Learn to garden.

22. Go on a yoga retreat somewhere beautiful.

23. Go on a writing retreat somewhere beautiful.

24. Find my faith.

25. Smoke pot with my mother. 

26. Find work that I love.

27. Eat a lunch of bread, cheese and red wine, which Doctor Dash and I have pulled out of bike paniers.

28. Go on a horse pack trip in the Andes with my family.

I purposely stopped at 28, because it will force me to keep contemplating and adding to the list. Check back from time to time. Better yet, sit down and write one for yourself. Feels gooooood.

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