Kalibebti

if a pomegranate is in bloom



I'm doing 43 things
 

Kalibebti's Life List

  1. 1. Train.
    10 entries . 7 cheers
    12 people
  2. 2. submit my poems to journals (monthly)
    1 entry . 15 cheers
    22 people
  3. 3. IRAN
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    33 people
  4. 4. Sell my writing
    1 entry . 8 cheers
    9 people
  5. 5. Music-O-Meter
    44 entries . 6 cheers
    1 person
  6. 6. Real Resume. :D (Then list 43 nonprofits & companies representative of the type of entity I wouldn't mind working for.)
    9 entries . 17 cheers
    1 person
  7. 7. Find Spirituality in Nature
    43 entries . 25 cheers
    2 people
  8. 8. write a (sloppy, half-formed if need be) poem every day (or so) during June 2009
    5 entries . 2 cheers
    4 people
  9. 9. Be Tilda Swinton.
    4 entries . 3 cheers
    1 person
  10. 10. Work my legs so by mid-July they look like THIS
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    1 person
  11. 11. Sing every day. Find more musicians to sing with. :D
    6 entries . 15 cheers
    1 person
  12. 12. Take it to the next level.
    8 entries . 5 cheers
    3 people
  13. 13. Learn to surf. ..............................Go kiteboarding.
    7 entries . 19 cheers
    1 person
  14. 14. Hit the heavy bag at the gym. Get 30+ min cardio per day because it's good for my brain. Take a walk every morning.
    19 entries . 40 cheers
    1 person
  15. 15. Write the screenplay & figure out the rights issues etc.
    2 entries
    1 person
  16. 16. Go to Sunset Cliffs at sunset next full moon weekend. Rent a bicycle and pedal around Coronado Island. Ride the Blue Line. Have a picnic on the beach at sunrise.
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    1 person
  17. 17. Remember that balance is wobbly.
    10 entries . 32 cheers
    1 person
  18. 18. Complete a list of 11 novels, 11 short stories, 11 poems and 10 essays I wish to emulate.
    14 entries . 5 cheers
    1 person
  19. 19. Play chess with Professor C.
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    1 person
  20. 20. Get back in touch with old friends. (BP, RD, SG, FC, SJ, CJ, AN) while there is still a chance they actually remember who I am.
    4 entries . 13 cheers
    1 person
  21. 21. Do what I do because that's who I am.
    3 entries . 24 cheers
    1 person
  22. 22. Publish all my *&%$#!?!!ing poems because they're damn good! Get Breadloaf funding this year. Get a low-residency MFA in poetry & fiction...and become Poet Laureate of Anywhere.
    4 entries . 40 cheers
    1 person
  23. 23. Go outside & play.
    10 entries . 35 cheers
    2 people
  24. 24. Bother people every day. INVENT ALTERNATIVES. Make my 2 websites. MUSE ALOUD.
    3 entries . 9 cheers
    1 person
  25. 25. complete a personal siddur in poetry / dream journal
    12 entries . 10 cheers
    1 person
  26. 26. Identify 10 skills I've forgotten/never use and exercise them in at least one quantifiable way every month: play flute in a woodwind quintet again.
    4 entries . 25 cheers
    1 person
  27. 27. Take A. to Ten Thousand Waves in January 2010 by working at least pt as an arts/culture reporter and op/ed.
    3 entries . 19 cheers
    1 person
  28. 28. Condescend to meet deadlines even though they are abhorrent works of evil whose very existence at the nexus of art and economic enterprise is antithetical to creation.
    21 cheers
    1 person
  29. 29. Meditate on the 8/15 dream and the 1/16 dream. Meditate on nothing, because it's good for my brain. Practice acknowledging suffering & releasing fury. Sustain awareness of the necessity of mindful action.
    6 entries . 27 cheers
    1 person
  30. 30. Live my life by answering this question: What would you do if you knew you had not failed?
    4 entries . 35 cheers
    1 person
  31. 31. save the polar bears
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    18 people
  32. 32. Call on Amnesty International to add the state of California to its list of human rights abusers.
    3 team members . 2 entries . 7 cheers
    2 people
  33. 33. Befriend no more fanatics.
    2 entries . 8 cheers
    1 person
  34. 34. Hike around Scotland drinking whiskey and sleeping in castles (or hostels) with my man. Climb Mt. Whitney & yell like Tarzan!
    2 entries . 39 cheers
    1 person
  35. 35. travel all 7 continents during my lifetime & start by reading the Lonely Planet Guide to Croatia.
    7 entries . 18 cheers
    1 person
  36. 36. Build a house shaped like a four-dimensional labyrinth with lots of moving parts
    3 entries . 14 cheers
    1 person
  37. 37. Consider that being more, not less, self-interested might actually solve most of my problems and achieve even non-self-interested goals.
    2 entries . 12 cheers
    1 person
  38. 38. THRIVE IN DIFFERENT WORLDS
    6 entries . 26 cheers
    1 person
  39. 39. Of Cabbages and Kings
    16 entries . 3 cheers
    1 person
  40. 40. Catch up on April-May poem respondings.
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    1 person
  41. 41. Visit Mahinui's treehouse B&B : )
    3 cheers
    1 person
  42. 42. Mindless chores get me what I want.
    3 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person
  43. 43. Apply for volunteer Amnesty International positions that would teach me new stuff.
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    1 person

How I did it
How to begin to leave off the caffeine, alcohol & junk food in preparation for total abstinence during (hopefully) 2010 pregnancy.
It took me
5 months
It made me
feel & look better!


How to write a poem a day during May 2009
It took me
38 days
It made me
Half finished!


How to photograph May trip to see Mom
It took me
6 days
It made me


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Recent entries
Of Cabbages and Kings (read all 16 entries…)
from *Colleen* 2 days ago

Baked the famous “spicy” banana bread from our family recipe (it has cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, & cloves in it). I made one loaf with hazelnuts & one loaf with chocolate chips, & left one loaf “plain”. smile



post random questions daily and see if anyone plays with me and answers them :) (read all 87 entries…)
I'm sure someone has already asked this but 2 days ago

why are there supposedly only roughly 25% fewer Things than actual site users?

“2,062,382 people in 15,149 cities are doing 1,615,148 things”



Post a six word essay every day! (read all 40 entries…)
Accept the things I cannot change. 2 days ago

I am a maniac. It’s cool.

; )



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