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I'm doing 39 things
 

now I sleep in's Life List

  1. 1. eat local
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    9 people
  2. 2. conquer my fears
    4 entries . 35 cheers
    130 people
  3. 3. be impecable with my word
    5 entries . 25 cheers
    6 people
  4. 4. find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year
    106 entries . 23 cheers
    930 people
  5. 5. write haiku on fridays
    20 entries . 9 cheers
    171 people
  6. 6. Today because I love Christian I...
    16 entries . 15 cheers
    1 person
  7. 7. track what's on my zeitgeist
    11 entries . 8 cheers
    8 people
  8. 8. post really, really, really short stories.
    7 entries . 15 cheers
    28 people
  9. 9. sketch
    2 entries . 17 cheers
    21 people
  10. 10. Volunteer
    2 entries . 6 cheers
    3,979 people
  11. 11. create a vision board
    3 entries . 19 cheers
    150 people
  12. 12. knit an afgan
    2 entries . 13 cheers
    1 person
  13. 13. Do yoga twice a week
    13 entries . 33 cheers
    32 people
  14. 14. send letters and packages
    8 entries . 14 cheers
    4 people
  15. 15. buy a digital camera
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    867 people
  16. 16. Collect words
    10 entries . 9 cheers
    1 person
  17. 17. bird watch
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    20 people
  18. 18. go mushroom hunting
    2 entries . 19 cheers
    21 people
  19. 19. photograph plants and identify them
    18 entries . 10 cheers
    3 people
  20. 20. My Seed Pod Project
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    1 person
  21. 21. Learn Permaculture Design
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    13 people
  22. 22. Create my family tree
    2 entries . 9 cheers
    101 people
  23. 23. learn oragami
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    53 people
  24. 24. live within my means
    5 entries . 13 cheers
    148 people
  25. 25. pay off my credit card
    7 entries . 16 cheers
    1,306 people
  26. 26. Fund 43 microloans through Kiva.org
    5 entries . 14 cheers
    64 people
  27. 27. Contribute to Cabinet magazine
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    1 person
  28. 28. compile a vast library
    4 entries . 13 cheers
    33 people
  29. 29. not own a car
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    16 people
  30. 30. work for myself
    1 entry . 15 cheers
    392 people
  31. 31. be an architect
    3 entries . 8 cheers
    81 people
  32. 32. build my own house
    11 cheers
    800 people
  33. 33. Master biomemetic design
    2 entries . 4 cheers
    1 person
  34. 34. learn another language
    9 cheers
    3,082 people
  35. 35. go to china
    1 entry . 8 cheers
    455 people
  36. 36. learn to ballroom dance
    12 cheers
    647 people
  37. 37. read every book by steinbeck
    4 entries . 10 cheers
    1 person
  38. 38. Read all of Kurt Vonnegut's novels.
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    5 people
  39. 39. become a lounge singer
    1 entry . 21 cheers
    8 people
Recent entries
find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year (read all 106 entries…)
Deep Waters 17 hours ago

Boat horns and train whistles. Dahlias bigger than my head. Glass rooms sitting high up in the trees looking out over the water. Catwalks through the forest and hidden treehouses. My daydream places. Cracks in the clouds to let orange sunset strips fall on the sound. Stopping on pick blackberries Stopping to be still and just look. The new portishead.


record my dreams (read all 34 entries…)
Last night dreams flew to me in flocks 1 day ago

Early one in the night I was wandering through a big hoppin club as a prostitute. Different stories and different rooms, one leading to the next like a labyrinth. Like some of the clubs I went to in Madrid. I slept with my pimp, whom I felt vaguely in love with, and then was sent out to work. But I didn’t want to be with anyone else. So I had to stage affairs. Make it look like I had gone into the bathroom with a strange man, or disappear into a dark corner. Then I would use my own money to make good at the end of the night. I was sneaking around getting change at the bars so I would have small bills to make it seem realistic. It left me wondering… if I have my own money, why am I selling myself for small bills in the first place?

Later, I was in a giant Olympic-size stadium and my brother was in some kind of a super-steep hill ice skating race. We were packed in like sardines and the athletes would fly down the hill through the crowd, most of them tripping up and taking a few bystanders down with them in a growing snowball. My brother was really good and almost won. My family was there, lots of other familiar faces from high school. We were all getting wasted.

The rest are lost in a blur.

Night before last I dreampt I was snow-shoeing to a remote cabin with a strange exotic woman. It was all a big secret. We were up to something and the air was thick with the thrill of risk and danger. It all happened in super hi-vividness. The way the molecules squeezed together and the color of the snow changed as it crunched down below the area distributing the weight of my foot.


find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year (read all 106 entries…)
A Very Quiet Evening 2 days ago

Already some new growth on one of my new succulents. And I am finally feeling more productive. Got some good work in and then indulged in another long meandering walk exploring the neighborhood with no particular destination. Peeking into some spectacular gardens. Getting a little lost and enjoying the puzzle of placing myself in the slow expanding web of my mental map. More cooking. The end of a great short novel and a much anticipated new book await. I am really loving my current, though temporary, lifestyle and the setting of my own pace it affords. Grateful. Some of my loved ones are struggling right now and I will be keeping them in my prayers and close to my heart.


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