Life List

My life list is inspired by several women bloggers, mainly Maggie Mason and Abby Pratt. Even if I don't finish this list before I die, I am encouraged to live my life with purpose and passion. 

what's on your life list?

My Life List

go to Ireland
write a novel
convince a stranger to write a haiku in a bar
learn to make sushi
visit a cathedral in Europe
spend an entire afternoon in a hammock
learn how to play chess
make a book of collected stories from my family history
learn to garden
plant a fruit tree
be conversational in Spanish
make something on a potting wheel
learn sign language
vacation to Northern California
volunteer at a local library
go a day without speaking 
plan and follow through with a fundraiser
make a kite
play tennis in the summer
host a neighborhood cookout
find a pen pal in another country
memorize a book of the bible
get a children's book published
write a letter to someone every day for a month
live at least a month in a foreign country
send out Christmas cards
learn to drive a stick shift
don't use money for a week
baby sit for a friend for free
learn to sew
start/create a dog park community
listen to 100 new songs
kayak with Aaron
learn 50 different breakfast meals
join a book club
form a workplace with people I love
paint something old and make it beautiful
work at a coffee shop
attend Loy Krathong, the sky lantern festival in Thailand
go horse back riding
have a big wedding anniversary party
learn to make soap
make jewelry and give it away
sleep in a tree house
watch a movie projected on the side of my house
own land
learn how to whistle
be a foster mom
dance in Hawaii
spend a day museum hopping
teach someone how to read
learn how to play all of Bob Dylan's songs on the Harmonica
stop watching TV for at least 2 months
take a ballroom dance class
lead a high school girls bible study
collect teapots
finish a NY Times crossword puzzle
learn how to french braid my own hair
memorize 10 poems
read the same book every summer
call my siblings every Sunday
stay in a cabin in Sedona, AZ for a week
write a book about someone else's life
pay for a kid to go to Young Life camp
live in a house on the lake
sing with my friends at a karaoke night
spend a morning drawing with sidewalk chalk
make a website
get my real estate license
ride on the back of Aaron's motorcycle. Once.
Surprise Aaron with concert tickets
visit my relatives in Iowa
take an oil painting class
go for a walk every day with my husband for a year