I'm doing 36 things
2008
13 months ago
And…I’m going. Got a scholarship ticket and I think I have people to stay with and people to make art with…now just to figure out how to get there!
Erinina7's Life List
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1. travel around the world
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2. earn more money
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3. Finish 10 Background Work Pieces Before Moving on to Chapter 3
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4. live passionately every single day
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5. Recommit to healthy eating and fitness
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6. finish my short story
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7. publish something in a respectable journal, magazine, or edited website
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8. write a novel
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9. Establish a Routine of Daily Creativity
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10. Read 100 Books
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11. Maintain physical/mental/spiritual balance
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12. meditate daily
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13. See Cirque du Soleil
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14. Fall in requited love
6 entries . 12 cheers24 people -
15. act in professional-quality theater/films
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16. Learn to fly
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17. make a budget and stick to it
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18. have better posture
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19. not be sick anymore
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20. learn a language from every continent
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21. climb a mountain
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22. learn trapeze
2 entries . 3 cheers56 people -
23. Get 2nd and 3rd Tattoos!
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24. learn about wine
2 entries . 6 cheers817 people -
25. go camping
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26. paint more
4 cheers1,079 people -
27. learn to kayak
1 entry . 6 cheers368 people -
28. get my teeth fixed
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29. find the meaning of life
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30. play the clarinet again
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31. skateboard
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32. see the northern lights
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33. learn to sail
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34. go to burning man
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35. become fluent in Spanish and Japanese
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36. get a brazilian bikini wax
3 cheers317 people
Recent entries
Sixty
15 months ago
Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler
A page-turning thriller by a detailed researcher, I was left unimpressed by his portrayals of women in general and what they supposedly want. All in all, I think a story written for a man, not a woman, but still interesting and readable for it’s details on it’s various subject matters.
For instance, this book included Nazi history, prehistoric man, Antarctica and any number of weapon and vehicular details.
Fifty-Nine
16 months ago
The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex and the Meaning of Life by Armand M. Nicholi, Jr.
Always a touchy question, there were probably never two more notably opinionated scholars to debate it. Overall, the author uses his research into their letters, lives and published writings to try to formulate a debate on the main topics of love, sex, death, pain and how to live life from a materialist vs. spiritual worldview.
Saving the author’s notably biased conclusions for your own perusal, I found the work enlightening not only on topics of spirituality and psychoanalysis, but as a biography of the two men themselves.
The most personal epiphany that I had while reading the book was early on when reading Lewis’ comments about love and its pusuit as a purely selfless act as the means to happiness. While I found this helpful and a lovely idea, I was still painfully aware of certain facts and criticisms of biblical history that either he or Nicholi omit. Lewis seems to find most of the proof for his spiritual worldview in literary criticism of the Bible, but addresses the books as eye-witness accounts of Jesus that are in perfect agreement, instead of addressing the fact that their authorship varies by up to centuries and deeply reflects different early branches and sects of Christianity’s political biases. I found this failure to address a rather large materialist criticism dissapointing, but recognize that the error could in fact be Nicholi’s.
As far as Freud goes, I found myself not hating him quite as much as the sexist egotist archetype that he represents in my mind and finding some pity and recognition for his contribution to society and his personal grievances. However, perhaps it is mainly his male dominated world view that often made me wonder what a woman’s perspective in this dialogue could show, particularly a spiritual (but not Judeo-Christian) woman.
