BEFORE I DIE…
I want to travel to Uganda and walk with the silver
back gorillas. But I have to do it soon
because it is a difficulty climb and I am not getting any younger. And I may become more afraid as I get older.- I want to learn how to make a video, using my
Photoshop Elements program. I bought the
software four years ago and as of yet, have not made the time to learn how to
use the program. I’m getting better in
editing my photos. But now I want to
make videos.
- I need to learn to read music. I am musically illiterate and am embarrassed
by this fact.
- Maybe I will go hang gliding. But then, maybe not.
- I want to go down Snake River in a guided raft.- I went down the Colorado River and that is good enough for me.
- I want Mason to hug me. I want him to know who I am
and how we are related. I want him to have
a friend.
- I want to be less judgmental. I want to be more
even-tempered.
- I want to see a panda in the wild (is there such a
thing?).
- I want to go to a three-day beer festival and I want
to go with people who will drink all three days.
- I want to travel cross-country completely by myself. I
want to drive and live in my car. I want
to take the blue highways and eat in diners.
- I hope to lose my self-conscientiousness about the way
I dance. I am so awkward. Why do I care so much?
- I want to master the basic techniques in
photography. I have an eye for
composition. But I have no technical
skills.
- I want to teach one more time in China. I get great satisfaction from this gig.
- I would like to donate a kidney to someone who needs
it. (I found out that I am too old. I have to be under the age of 55 to donate a kidney).
- I would like to get back into the habit of
reading. I have lost my way here and I
regret it. - Working on it. I've started reading again.
- I would like to publish some of my writings.
- I would like to get over one million hits on my blog. As of 10/16 I have 305,000 hits. As of 4/18, I have 867,000 hits. On May 1, 2018, I had 889,000 hits. On Oct 9,2018- 990,000.
- I want to finish traveling through all 50 states. I have 3 left: Hawaii, Mississippi, Montana (10/16), Idaho (7/2016), Iowa (3/18),
North Dakota, Minnesota (3/18), and Wisconsin (3/18).
- I want to go to Easter Island, Turkey, Jordon,
Afghanistan, Chile, Burma, Bhutan, Greenland, Laos, Wales, Channel Islands and Solomon Islands. (Bhutan-2017) (Wales and Channel Islands 2018)
- I want to publish some podcasts of my writing. But I am not sure my voice is strong enough.
- I want to go to the Sundance Film Festival.
- I want to be the Administrative Dean for the Semester
At Sea Program.
- I need to lose more weight. I was so good at losing it five years
ago. But some of it has slipped back on
me and I have to get rid of it now.
- I want to get one more car and ride it for 300,000+
miles. I want a blue mini-coop. (I bought a Honda Civic in March 2017)
- I want to see a female president elected to the White
House. It’s time.
- I want to see more owls out in the wild. (Cape Coral- 2.2017)
- I want to participate in more Christmas Counts around
the country. So far, I’ve done one on the Chesapeake, in Lancaster, in San
Francisco and in Bermuda.
- I want to see the Northern Lights in North America.
- I want to explore more of northern Canada. This country really has some beautiful
places.
- I would like to take an art class at least once a
year. I think my artistic side is greatly undeveloped.
- 2015- Mosaics
- 2017- Felting
- I would like to learn to paint.
- I hope an Equal Rights Amendment is finally passed in
our country. I will continue to fight for this cause.
- I will work to eradicate poverty by empowering women.
Facilitator- World Academy for the Future of Women- China 2012
Haiti Family Initiative- Haiti- 2013
Haiti Family Initiative- Haiti- 2014
Facilitator- World Academy for the Future of Women- China- 2015
Facilitator- World Academy for the Future of Women-Nepal- 2017
- I want to go ice fishing.-done 2/2017
- I want to go to the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in
Chico, CA.- DONE 2-17-2017
- I want to see some part of the Iditarod Race in
Alaska.- (I went to Alaska in March 2017 to see the race but it was moved at the last minute due to weather problems).
- I want to start a Dining For Women Chapter.
- I want to let go of grudges. I hold on too long sometimes because my pride
is damaged. I have to let go sometimes.
- I want my nieces and nephews to be content with their
lives. I hope those who marry stay
happily married. And I hope those who do
not marry do so by choice and are not treated as second class citizens because
of this decision.
- I would like to make at least 50% more in my
investments.
- I want a cup of that coffee that is first consumed by
a rodent and then eliminated, cleaned and grounded into coffee. When I am drinking this cup of coffee, I will
have to work on not thinking about the process. DONE 7/2016
- I would like to become a bit neater, a bit more
organized.
- I want to see a reversal in national attitudes about
our growing obsession with guns.
- I want to travel for 100 days straight. I wonder if I
could travel for a whole year?
- I want to live in West Chester, PA or some similar
area. I need to live in a place where I can walk to a coffee shop, the library,
the movies, a bar and some place where I can take a class. As I get older, I need to be near more
people.- Moved to West Chester in June 2017
- I want to get rid of most of my possessions. I have
too, too much stuff and my stuff owns me. I’m tripping over my stuff. DONE 6/15/17
- I want to take more public transportation- I did take the train across the country in 2016. I took the Metro subway in DEC in 2017 and 2018. I took the bus from Katmandu to Chitwan in 2017. I took the bus to DC in 2017 and to NYC in 2017.
- I want to reach my goal of 100 countries visited in my
lifetime. I’ve traveled to about 70 countries.
- I want to become a better birder. I don’t stick with
it enough to get any better.
- I want to go to Lourdes. I want to see the shrine where Bernadette saw
Mary. I don’t think this shrine has
healing powers. But I am told it brings
people hope. I’d like to see that.
- I would like to meet the Dali Llama and Jimmy
Carter. They are men of peace and an
inspiration to me. I met Jimmy Cater in March, 2017
- I want to go to Slab City.
- I want to go to Burning Man Festival.
- I want to travel to Jersey in the Channel Islands to visit the Durrell Zoo.- DONE 09/2018
- I would like to help at least one person move from
homelessness to a stable living environment.
- I would like to connect with as many of my former
students as possible. It brings me great satisfaction to see that they have
matured and become productive citizens.
I am connected to about 3000 of my 10,000 students.
- I want to see the migration of the Snow Crane in the
northern part of the country.
- I want to see the Running of the Horses at Asseteague
Island.
- I want to go to Chitwan Wildlife Reserve in Nepal- DONE 11/20/17
I want to meet Jimmy Carter.- DONE 3/25/2017
I want to travel to the Grand Canyon- Done- 6/7/18
I want to travel to the Grand Canyon- Done- 6/7/18
- I want to see a concert at Red Rocks Theatre in
Boulder, CO.- DONE 8/2016
- I want to volunteer for a short time for the United
Nations.
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