I'm doing 43 things
Racism will disappear – or humanity will.
Of all the discrimanatory “isms” I hate racism the most as I suffered from it. Not as a victim but as a small minded little englander. I grew up in a very “white” environment and credit Bob Marley for making me realise, at 13 or so, how stupid racism is. I’d have realised its stupidity anyway, I hope, but Bob’s music gave me a push in the right direction.
spielberg's Life List
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1. be happy
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2. Fall in love
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3. Practice random acts of kindness
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4. Quit Smoking
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5. Make new friends
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6. write a book
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7. lose the weight i need to lose and keep it off
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8. learn to meditate
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9. learn to SCUBA dive
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10. see the northern lights
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11. learn Mandarin
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12. lucid dream
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13. learn to act
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14. learn sign language
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15. learn arabic
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16. meet new people
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17. buy and read every title in "The New Lifetime Reading Plan" : Read dozens of major works of literature, poetry, and philosophy over the next forty years.
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18. teach English abroad
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19. Give the needy food they would actually like.
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20. stop daydreaming, stop being indecisive, and find out what i want by doing things, not by sitting around thinking all the time
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21. learn to teach openmindedness:)
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22. Read more books
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23. show up at the airport with a bag and a passport and take the first flight available
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24. post pictures that make me laugh
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25. adopt a cat (again)
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26. be more social
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27. Re-learn the math I forgot from school, and learn how to do math I never learned in the past
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28. give away all my cheers every day and always exceed cheers given over cheers received
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29. hug a koala bear
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31. Go up the blooming tower of Salisbury Cathedral...
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32. Save this space for pimping out all the things I love (artists/sites/people/products)
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33. Sing loudly and ridiculously
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34. Order a Singapore Sling in Singapore
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35. Avoid loud and aggressive persons
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36. Learn to play the guitar
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37. Learn as many languages as possible
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38. meditate daily
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39. give 500 cheers
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40. create my own font
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41. Drive across the USA
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42. collect and donate scarves, socks, hats, mittens and blankets for the homeless
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43. Help end racism
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Recent entries
I donate my old clothes at the local food bank I’ve started helping at. However I shall make an effort to increase their supply of clothes as you’ve prompted me into an idea. I shall be volunteering on a regular basis for my local Oxfam shop in the New Year – I’ll check what they do with unwanted clothes etc.
I’ve done this several times in Kenya and once in South Africa. It’s fantastic to see animals in the wild – so much more “real” than a zoo. Though I like cats and loved seeing (for example) lion cubs with their pride my favourite experience was with hippos. We stayed one night in a reserve about halfway between Nairobi and Mombassa. Our tents (with bathrooms and real beds – luxurious tents!) were next to a large stream leading to the lake the hippos spent their days in. At around 5am we sat on our verandah and watched as around 30 hippos, in single file apart from the mothers with calves, lumbered and splashed their way past.
