BringMeThunder

your breath, your bugs, your bones



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BringMeThunder's Life List

  1. 1. create more art
    1 entry . 18 cheers
    327 people
  2. 2. learn something new every day
    1 cheer
    1,280 people
  3. 3. get my driver's license
    15 cheers
    5,336 people
  4. 4. have better posture
    1 entry . 13 cheers
    8,148 people
  5. 5. Learn how to change the oil in my car
    22 cheers
    116 people
  6. 6. Learn to change a tire
    1 entry . 29 cheers
    90 people
  7. 7. expand my vocabulary
    3 entries . 11 cheers
    2,739 people
  8. 8. give away 10% of my income
    3 entries . 19 cheers
    0 people
  9. 9. create a morning ritual
    4 people
  10. 10. make my own business cards
    1 cheer
    216 people
  11. 11. build a cold frame
    7 cheers
    4 people
  12. 12. Compost
    12 cheers
    189 people
  13. 13. ride the bus more
    8 people
  14. 14. grow my own food
    5 entries . 23 cheers
    552 people
  15. 15. carve wood
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    22 people
  16. 16. explore the city i live in
    2 entries . 6 cheers
    263 people
  17. 17. do a split
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    701 people
  18. 18. improve my handwriting
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    911 people
  19. 19. Have a wardrobe that reflects who I am and makes me feel good
    27 entries . 21 cheers
    4 people
  20. 20. learn to bellydance
    3 entries . 31 cheers
    601 people
  21. 21. learn to sew
    1 entry . 17 cheers
    4,041 people
  22. 22. get a passport
    1 entry . 18 cheers
    1,777 people
  23. 23. Get my labret pierced
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    26 people
  24. 24. learn how to drive stick-shift
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    4,527 people
  25. 25. sell things on etsy
    16 cheers
    180 people
  26. 26. speak spanish fluently
    1 entry . 19 cheers
    2,325 people
  27. 27. sell a photograph
    5 cheers
    76 people
  28. 28. grieve the loss of my dog
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    2 people
  29. 29. see Cloud Cult live
    1 cheer
    2 people
  30. 30. get my motorcycle license...and a motorcycle
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    92 people
  31. 31. Get a tattoo
    2 entries . 5 cheers
    22,049 people
  32. 32. volunteer at an animal rehabilitation center
    2 entries . 11 cheers
    5 people
  33. 33. Cliff Dive
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    141 people
  34. 34. become a missionary
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    81 people
  35. 35. use documentary photography to change the world
    1 entry . 8 cheers
    1 person
  36. 36. Raise chickens
    1 entry . 20 cheers
    197 people
  37. 37. hike in a cloud forest
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    1 person
  38. 38. See a Meteor Shower in the desert
    1 entry . 13 cheers
    2 people
  39. 39. Experience thundersnow
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    2 people
  40. 40. place in the World Press Photo contest
    3 cheers
    1 person
  41. 41. overall goal list
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person

How I did it
How to brush my pets' teeth daily
It took me
3 months
It made me


How to seal my letters with wax
It took me
1 day
It made me
feel old fashioned.


How to dye my hair blue
It took me
2 days
It made me


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Recent entries
overall goal list (read all 2 entries…)
Updating

It’s been too long since I reorganized my “master” goal list. I have a dozen miscellaneous lists on listography that need to be inserted here, along with several goals to mark complete. Hopefully after midterms I can do so. I’m in dire need of the inspiration this place fosters.



grow my own food (read all 5 entries…)
We're still well below freezing every night,

but I’ve already ordered seed catalogs from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Heirloom Acre Seeds, Seeds of Change, and the Seed Savers Exchange.

I’m also saving up for a mini-greenhouse like this one, so that I don’t lose so many seedlings during hardening off and transplanting. Plus, this year I’ll be able to till the ground instead of toiling to loosen clay with a shovel, which means better aeration and soil amendments. I can’t wait!



spend one day a week on a media diet
Last Saturday

was my first media free day in too long. I was highly productive in the morning. Once all my usual chores were finished, I tackled a few tasks I had put off, and it felt tremendous to strike them from my to-do list. Afterward, however, I grew restless, and abstaining from checking my email became more difficult, since that’s the first thing I usually do in “procrastination mode.”

I felt a little ridiculous and even disturbed noticing how strong the compulsion became. Observing how much time I freed by not giving in to that compulsion four-six-eight times a day was enough to quell the compulsion, though; by the end of the day I was more relaxed than I had been in ages. Completing all those tasks silenced a lot of stress that’s normally buzzing in my mind, enabling me to concentrate better and subsequently, I made significant progress in my current book.

Part of what makes it difficult to avoid electronic media (and why it’s so easy to turn on/tune in daily) is my setting. When I was a child I didn’t have internet or a cell phone but I did have video games, and although I enjoyed them, I never felt any urge to play them outweigh the urge to play outside. I lived near semi-remote fields and forests, where I could explore all day without seeing more than one or two people, and that environment imbued a spiritual peace and physical energy no electronics could provide. Now, living in a small city, I miss that more than I can say. Being cooped up indoors makes turning to electronic media that much easier. Nevertheless, I’m looking forward to my next media free day immensely!



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