I'm doing 35 things
Five surgeries in 15 months.
lisadinkleygatsby's Life List
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1. make a difference
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2. make the most out of the time spent with my children
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3. teach my kids to follow their passions
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4. reach and maintain my optimum health
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5. Stress less
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6. spend more time outdoors
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7. read more
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8. become a better writer
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9. learn how to meditate
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10. learn yoga
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11. see the ocean
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12. take more photographs
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13. sew more
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14. ride my bike more
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15. design and build a bike trailer
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16. i want to fall in love with someone who loves me as much as i love them!
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17. travel more
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18. Find something to smile about, everyday.
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19. go surfing
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20. Send a postcard to Postsecret
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21. grow grapes
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22. succeed at homeschooling my children
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23. Cool, calm and collected beats frantic, hyper and bombastic any day of the week
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24. no more hangups
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25. spend less time on the internet
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26. publish a zine.
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27. list
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28. eliminate debt
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29. enroll my youngest son in martial arts
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30. read the list of books that Matilda first read (Roald Dahl)
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31. keep a journal
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32. renew my passport
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33. take a photo with each of my friends
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34. One-Year Hiatus
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35. find a new job
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Recent entries
This is from Paulo Coelho’s Blog:
If one person really wants us, everyone does. But, if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
“Have you ever heard of the book called the I Ching?” I asked her.
“No, I haven’t.”
“It says that a city can be moved but not a well. It’s around the well that lovers find each other, satisfy their thirst, build homes, and raise their children. But if one of them decides to leave, the well cannot go with them. Love remains there, abandoned – even though it is filled with the same pure water as before.”
Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life.
We have to take love where we find it, even if it means hours, days, weeks of disappointments and sadness.
“You shouldn’t have asked,” I said. “Love doesn’t ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It’s an inexplicable fear; it’s difficult even to describe it. Maybe it’s the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. It’s ridiculous, but that’s the way it is. That’s why you don’t ask-you act. As you’ve said many times, you have to take risks.”
Wait. This was the first lesson I learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways – and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives.
But by then, you don’t know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.
Love is like a trap. When it appears, we see only light, not its shadows.
Pilar is the main character of “By the river Piedra I sat down and wept”
