I'm doing 43 things
#6
2 years 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 . 7 cheers3,903 people -
2. Paraglide
1 entry . 2 cheers201 people -
3. Rock Climb Outdoors
1 entry . 5 cheers13 people -
4. Horseback riding trip
5 cheers1 person -
5. Design a house
3 cheers134 people -
6. Fly a plane
1 cheer923 people -
7. Learn to dance the salsa and the tango
1 entry . 4 cheers2 people -
8. Learn to sail
1,923 people -
9. See the Northern Lights
2 cheers16,413 people -
10. Learn to play the guitar
2 cheers12,308 people -
11. Buy a proper piece of art
3 cheers1 person -
12. Walk the great wall of china
3 cheers506 people -
13. Attend the Olympics
3 cheers251 people -
14. Watch the launch of a space shuttle
2 cheers16 people -
15. Raft through the grand canyon
2 cheers73 people -
16. Learn to surf
2 cheers7,106 people -
17. Scuba dive at the great barrier reef
1 cheer30 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 cheer94 people -
22. Fly in a seaplane
1 entry . 1 cheer4 people -
23. visit all the countries in the world
1 entry . 1 cheer15 people -
24. Hold a Koala bear
3 cheers86 people -
25. try Sandboarding
1 cheer1 person -
26. Paintball
1 cheer66 people -
27. Be an extra in a film
1 cheer225 people -
28. Paint a beautiful picture
1 cheer20 people -
29. Swim at midnight in the south of france
2 cheers1 person -
30. Own a room with a view
1 entry . 2 cheers7 people -
31. make my own ice cream
4 cheers18 people -
32. visit all 50 states
1 cheer6,891 people -
33. ride in a hot air balloon
2 cheers1,892 people -
34. read Atlas Shrugged
1 cheer164 people -
35. get paid to travel
2 cheers295 people -
36. Photograph 43 Sunsets
6 entries47 people -
37. print my digital pictures
12 people -
38. become more stylish
1 entry . 2 cheers26 people -
39. ride the trans-siberian rail road
1 cheer2 people -
40. Ride an elephant
742 people -
41. eat an ostrich burger
1 cheer4 people -
42. Walk across Britain
1 person -
43. Start a tour company
1 person
Recent entries
His poem
2 years 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.
