Inspired by example....
Most of us have talked about the things we'd like to do before we die. Various places we'd like to visit, skills we'd like to master, people we'd like to meet... whatever it is that strikes us at the moment as worthy of doing before we lose all opportunity.
Maggie Mason, writer, editor and publisher of the various Mighty Media websites posted a list of "100 Things To Do Before I Go" that prompted me to do the same. Of course I had decided to do that weeks before this post, my first in more than a year... but better late than never.
I'll update this list as I go and see if I can't manage to find 100 things I'd like to do before I die. As for how many I finish...
06 June 2008: 1-25 added
12 June 2008: 26 added
20 June 2008: 27-29 added
Maggie Mason, writer, editor and publisher of the various Mighty Media websites posted a list of "100 Things To Do Before I Go" that prompted me to do the same. Of course I had decided to do that weeks before this post, my first in more than a year... but better late than never.
I'll update this list as I go and see if I can't manage to find 100 things I'd like to do before I die. As for how many I finish...
- Walk in Antarctica
Walk on a glacierFly in a helicopter- Learn to blow smoke rings
- (re)Learn to play the drums
- Take vocal lessons
- Watch a desert sunrise with my wife
- Make a successful business out of my hobby
- Train an award winning bonsai
- Win an award for my painting
- Run for a public office
- Learn to make proper sushi
- Become a Certified Sommelier
- Grow my own vegetables
- Smoke a cigar on a tropical beach
- Learn to SCUBA dive
- SCUBA diver in a foreign country
- Spend a day tending my own Japanese garden
- Visit at least 10 Japanese gardens in California
Learn enough about rum to make an educated purchaseLearn enough about tequila to make an educated purchaseLearn enough about Scotch to make an educated purchaseLearn enough about whiskeys to make an educated purchase- Learn enough about cigars to make an educated purchase
- Bottle and ferment my own port recipe
- Bottle and ferment my own hard cider
- Ride my bike more than 100 miles in a day
- Go on an exclusive tour
- Perform Shakespeare for an audience
Go class 3+ whitewater rafting- Start my own business (again)
- Conquer my fear of heights and climb a wall or rock face more than 50'
06 June 2008: 1-25 added
12 June 2008: 26 added
20 June 2008: 27-29 added