I'm doing 43 things
I’m planning to head to my hometown the weekend after next to prune my Dad’s fruit trees and (hopefully) build him a raised bed or two in his garden.
GQkudzu's Life List
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1. become intimate with Big South Fork
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2. pray
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3. make apple brandy.
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4. take a sabbatical
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5. 43 random things about me
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6. attend the Sewanee Summer Music Festival
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7. Make and fly a kite
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8. try yoga.
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9. build a swarm trap
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10. get rid of my inferiority complex
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11. finish my novel
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12. get my Master's degree
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13. Start a Roth IRA
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14. wants to make 43 encouraging comments to fellow 43ters, starting now.
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15. build an outdoor cob oven.
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16. re-learn Spanish
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17. run a 5k
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18. do a retreat at Gethsemani Abbey
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19. keep chickens
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20. spend more time with my dad
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21. learn to play "Addison's Walk" on guitar, or get close enough.
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22. carve out a little spot on the Web for random observation, the channeling of negative energy and miscellania
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23. make a cold-brewed coffee toddy system.
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24. have a 3 month emergency fund
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25. learn the constellations
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26. send out at least 10 queries for magazine articles in January.
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27. do 50 pushups a day
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28. own peacocks
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29. build a picnic table
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30. learn to play tennis
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31. reach my ideal weight
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32. attend a ramp festival.
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33. raise cattle
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34. document my Appalachian experience in photographs
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35. start a conversation with a stranger.
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36. wake up on my 40th birthday in some place amazing and significant.
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37. befriend the most un-me-like people I can find.
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38. start writing again
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39. write a song
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40. ride a bike around Cades Cove.
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41. be the Bono of my little world.
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42. stock some emergency provisions in the basement.
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43. stay at LeConte Lodge
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Recent entries
I guess I had given up on this goal too soon. I downloaded a blog reader on my iPad and synched it with my Google Reader account. Found some I really love: a couple who sold their house, bought a sailboat and have now been at sea for over 500 days; a man who’s preparing to hike the Appalachian trail this year; several individuals who are building and/or living in tiny houses; a number of farms. I’ve been reading these often.
I had this idea. All these thoughts about my novel come to me on a regular basis, and some would be worth hanging onto. I think I’ll keep a “novel journal,” a proving ground of sorts for those ideas to develop before they actually go into the novel itself.
