I'm doing 40 things
#6
1 year ago
This was taken while driving down the blue ridge parkway in North Carolina
Caker's Life List
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1. Go on a Cruise
2 entries . 8 cheers3,142 people -
2. Paraglide
1 entry . 1 cheer164 people -
3. Rock Climb Outdoors
1 entry . 5 cheers8 people -
4. Horseback riding trip
5 cheers1 person -
5. Design a house
6 cheers117 people -
6. Fly a plane
1 cheer781 people -
7. Learn to dance the salsa and the tango
1 entry . 4 cheers2 people -
8. Learn to sail
1,686 people -
9. See the Northern Lights
2 cheers14,284 people -
10. Learn to play the guitar
2 cheers10,738 people -
11. Buy a proper piece of art
3 cheers1 person -
12. Walk the great wall of china
2 cheers420 people -
13. Attend the Olympics
3 cheers191 people -
14. Watch the launch of a space shuttle
2 cheers11 people -
15. Raft through the grand canyon
2 cheers61 people -
16. Learn to surf
2 cheers6,010 people -
17. Scuba dive at the great barrier reef
1 cheer28 people -
18. Go to just for laughs in montreal
1 cheer1 person -
19. Get pampered all day at a spa
1 cheer1 person -
20. Meditate in a buddhist temple
5 cheers3 people -
21. Build an Igloo
1 cheer85 people -
22. Fly in a seaplane
1 entry . 1 cheer5 people -
23. visit all the countries in the world
1 entry . 1 cheer14 people -
24. Hold a Koala bear
3 cheers85 people -
25. try Sandboarding
1 cheer1 person -
26. Paintball
1 cheer58 people -
27. Be an extra in a film
2 cheers189 people -
28. Paint a beautiful picture
1 cheer17 people -
29. Swim at midnight in the south of france
3 cheers1 person -
30. Own a room with a view
1 entry . 2 cheers5 people -
31. make my own ice cream
4 cheers13 people -
32. visit all 50 states
1 cheer5,866 people -
33. ride in a hot air balloon
2 cheers1,624 people -
34. read Atlas Shrugged
1 cheer124 people -
35. get paid to travel
2 cheers266 people -
36. Photograph 43 Sunsets
6 entries52 people -
37. print my digital pictures
12 people -
38. become more stylish
1 entry . 1 cheer16 people -
39. learn how to cook
1 entry1,176 people -
40. ride the trans-siberian rail road
1 cheer2 people
Recent entries
His poem
1 year ago
CHICAGOHOG Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I
have seen your painted women under the gas lamps
luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it
is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to
kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the
faces of women and children I have seen the marks
of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who
sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer
and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing
so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on
job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the
little soft cities;
Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning
as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
Bareheaded,
Shoveling,
Wrecking,
Planning,
Building, breaking, rebuilding,
Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with
white teeth,
Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young
man laughs,
Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has
never lost a battle,
Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse.
and under his ribs the heart of the people,
Laughing!
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of
Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog
Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with
Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
