It's a new year, so I might as well start a new way to "keep in touch" and update friends about what I'm doing. New Year's also means looking ahead, and although these are not goals that I want to accomplish within the ensuing year, these are dreams that I would like to realize sometime throughout my life. Some of them probably won't come through; thus I will continue to dream about realizing them. I think that some dreams need to be realized, while others need to remian unfulfilled so we have something to dream about on long, sleepless nights. I like the idea of striving for something we cannot obtain; nevertheless, we continue to strive.
- See Mt. Fuji, and retrace Hokusai's 36 ways to view it or discover my own views.
- Partcipate in an excavation for fossils, be it in Spitsbergen, the Burgess Shale, or Vernal Utah.
- Spend 8-12 months in Australia, living and working at a restaurant or cafe, and afterwards travel. I want to go to the Sydney Opera House, snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef, hold a koala, stay up all night staring a different host of stars in the Outback, visit the opal mines.
- Contribute in some way to the creation of a new Disney princess and continue the dream created by Walt Disney and enlarge the experience of childhood.
- Spend a night in the Sistine chapel, staring up at the ceiling and wondering what dreams I'd have.
- Open a pet store in conjunction with the Humane Society, open a flower shop, or open a tea shop.
- Study abroad in Scotland, Ireland, or France.
- Have a personal library with a resident cat named Hugo, be a member of or work at a place like the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction in Manhattan.
- Learn to tango.
- Write and publish a novel - or even better, a series of novels, and take a tour across the US promoting said book(s).
- Spend all day in bed reading for pleasure, not feel guilty about it, and not feel disgusting because I didn't get dressed. Spend a night talking over a kitchen table and a mug of hot chocolate with someone I care about. Spend a day accomplishing everything - and more - I set out to do that day. Be both a nightowl and an early riser.
- Work at a publishing house.
- Marry a man I love, and then spend a lifetime continuing to love him whom I married.
- Have twins, in addition to other children, possibly adopted, and be a good mother to them.
- Live in Amherst, Massachusetts or Lake Oswego, Oregon, in addition to living abroad for some years.
- Read all of Shakespeare's plays.
- Travel to Rome to see the Vatican, the Sistine Chapel, and John Keats' grave after reading all his poetry. On the same trip, spend an afternoon napping in Tuscany and an afternoon painting in Florence.
- Never stop learning. Be visited with trials and hard lessons so that I may better learn and understand the sufferings of others and know how to alleviate those sufferings.
- Be a tragic hero.
- See the face of God.
- Have an inexhaustible list of dreams.
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