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Lagniappe's Life List
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1. For One Year - use only cash. No debit or credit
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2. Turn this life around and take it to 11
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3. Take charge of and Tame my Inner/Outer Disorganized Nutjob self
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4. Get Off My Frickin' Ass and Exercise
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5. Cleansweep my life - Organize
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6. Let The Past Go
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7. Be the daughter my parents deserve
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8. Weight Losers - Weight Watcher is a given!
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9. Live up to my Norval Morrisseau print
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10. Say No - no thank you, no I can't, no not now
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11. Colour outside the lines
2 entries . 37 cheers2 people -
12. Volunteer at an animal shelter
1 entry . 38 cheers704 people -
13. Grow old Disgracefully
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14. Never cease to be amazed
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15. Become a Neat Freak, cut the Crap - in more ways than one
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16. Be a Donor (blood, bone marrow or organ)
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17. Write monthly to my sponsored children
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18. Get my Cranio Sacral Therapist Certificate
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19. Learn to crochet
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20. Read 'Don Quixote' and 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'
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21. See the Northern lights
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22. See Petra, Jordan
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23. Finish all knitting projects
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24. Become a Grandmaster Tarot card reader
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25. Minimalism
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26. Ask myself if this will bring me closer to my goals when I expend resources be it time, money, energy, or thought.
2 entries . 21 cheers4 people -
27. Be an Acaday Spa therapist
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28. See Anthony Robbins live
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29. Master Axiatonal Alignment
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30. Make my own List of The Top 100 Books to Read out of my own collection
1 cheer1 person
Recent entries
‘You can keep all the things that belonged to your parents’ I say. ‘It doesn’t bring them back.’ So I stand, in my father’s tool shed (circa 1969) and breathe in that dry old wood smell – how is it that no matter the temperature it’s always fine in here? My hand is curled around the handle of the enameled iron pot used to cook corn at corn roasts over the decades. I really do need this..for something. I take it in the house and wash the soot off
‘Sold’ the sign reads in front of my childhood home. ‘Childhood’ being a flexible term – more than childhood has been spent here.
‘How hard’ remarked a friend when I returned to the house, between apartments. ‘All the memories.’
Well, yes…every now and again my boy-Father wanders into my bedroom to stand at the window. He’s lain in that quiet, bird-song strewn cemetery since ‘71; but I watch as he ties his tie, and looks out at the yard and garden.
