I'm doing 43 things
Unbeknownst to me at the time of making this goal, I would soon leave my adopted landscape of insanity called New York and head for the quieter skies and oceans of St. Augustine, Florida, home of my birth, gem of the First Coast, and the longest continually settled city in the United States. Once I was settled there among the boats and pelicans, I had the distinct pleasure of working at a wire manufacturing company, which at first was not pleasurable at all, being at such a far remove from other artsy, abstract pleasures of the mind, but as soon as I had a few tours of the factory floor, and the people burrowed into my heart, well—the place just grew on me. Not to mention they had these beautiful spinning machines that twirled out highly engineered wire for airplanes and the aeronautics industry. Though I am no longer working there, I plan to follow up this four-month experience of the factory world, I will trek to the Boeing facility in Everett, not too far from my newly adopted home of Seattle, and try to see a tour of the airplanes being built there. And maybe catch a glimpse of the wire I helped bring into being back in Florida.
pigeonpost's Life List
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1. love
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2. Do something new every month
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3. be a scientist
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4. sing in a great choral work again
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5. travel to iceland
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6. love my body
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7. reclaim my memory
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8. learn to weave
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9. finish my degree
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10. remember a past life
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11. travel to all the islands of the world
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12. go to space
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13. wander in the forest
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14. scuba dive
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15. learn adobe premiere
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16. watch things get made
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17. meet robert hass and give him a hug
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18. live in california
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19. sleep on the beach
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20. buy my mom a house
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21. get a penpal
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22. meet more people around the world
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23. read more philosophy
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24. write an article about astrobiology
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25. make installations in remote places
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26. not apologize for making a mark
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27. see wild animals up close
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28. make more films
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29. practice chi regularly
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30. build a treehouse in the american west
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31. experience the midnight sun
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32. see antarctica
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33. make special packages for people I love
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34. sit in a yurt in mongolia
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35. avoid buying plastic
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36. be kind always to animals
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37. eat raw food for a year
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38. write poetry
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39. design my website
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40. chart the creation of an item completely
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41. write down my dreams every morning
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42. win the pulitzer prize
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43. make a quilt depicting constellations and chromosomes
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