Mr. Barefoot and I have tandem lists for the summer that include conferences, weddings (not ours), hiking, climbing, backpacking, and maybe a trip overseas (ya gotta love the academic schedule! However, my list also includes prepping to teach to new classes next fall, and completing my dissertation, so it's not all bubbles and campfires.)
Prior to this summer's list, I had a list called the Big Five. The goals were so monumental that I didn't need anything more on my Life List until I got them done. To wit:
- Finish my PhD
- Get a job
- Get a house
- Get a spouse
- Have a baby (or get a dog)*
Thinking more expansively, some other things I'd like to do in this life are:
- Hike the John Muir Trail
- Summit Mt. Shasta (missed by a few hundred feet last summer)
- Live overseas again
- Finish reading A Suitable Boy
- Grow tomatoes in the backyard
- Laugh often
- Lose my fear of public speaking
- Teach my nephew to rock climb
- Publish a couple books
- Soak in Iceland's Blue Lagoon
- Float the backwaters of Kerala
- Run the Dipsea Race
- Ski a blue trail
- Practice yoga in Mysore
- Host dinner parties for awesome women
- Walk with the Shikoku pilgrims
- Climb Mt. Fuji
- Cook Thai food
- Speak Tibetan at the Potala
- Sit for ten-days in a meditation retreat
- Hike the Cinque Terre
- Follow the Camino de Santiago
What's on your Life List? How does getting married change it?
*Not that I'm equating the two!
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1 comment:
Love it!! I think we are going to hike the Cingue Terre on our honeymoon--I am going to check out more of your ideas, because I do not know what/where half these things are.
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