I'm doing 26 things
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jnicole's Life List
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1. take my husband to an Alabama football game
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2. Learn Spanish
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3. Read a piece on Def Poetry Jam
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4. visit my friends
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5. Read the entire Bible
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6. create a website
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7. Complete a walk-a-thon.
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8. be closer to God
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9. be a better feminist
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10. get better at salsa
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11. document my life better
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12. bellydance
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13. go to more concerts
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14. Read more
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15. publish a chapbook
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16. record a spoken word album
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17. publish a short story in a literary magazine.
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18. Publish more poems in literary magazines
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19. be a better wife
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20. Get a tattoo
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21. look good in a swimsuit
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22. Get healthy
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23. call home more often
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24. pay off credit cards
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25. publish a book of poetry
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26. Participate in NANOWRIMO
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Recent entries
In summer it’s so easy for me to see God in the blue of a cloudless sky or to feel God in the kiss of a cool breeze on a humid day. In autumn when Nature anticipates her death and gets all dressed up so she can go out with a bang, I look at the red, orange and yellow leaves and think about how gorgeous God must be. Even the showers and thunderstorms of spring remind me of God’s power.
But I don’t feel so spiritual when the trees are as naked as shame and I’m scraping ice from my windshield, shivering uncontrollably despite a jacket, a coat, gloves, a scarf and a hat.
But this year when the seasons change I will try. I will try to see God in snow flurries and feel God in cold air that cuts like uncovered truth. And maybe, finally, I will be able to know the warmth of God even in the winters of my life.
