In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own. ~Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanI have a Bucket List.
Actually, I think more people have bucket lists than they're willing to admit.
After all, at first glance, it might seem silly to have a little list of all our secret hopes and dreams...
...some tiny, some huge, most insignificant to those around us.
In fact, I never planned on sharing my own personal Bucket List with the world. My list is eclectic, artsy, random...maybe, to any eye that isn't mine, it might even seem trite or foolish.
But then a post & fabulous Bucket List themed giveaway over at (life's too short not to)wear red shoes inspired me to stop being so selfish...so insecure...so uptight. I bear my soul on this blog all the time...no reason that I cannot share my dreams with the world, as well.
And so...here is a sampling...a taste, if you will...of the dreams I must meet before I "kick the bucket," some of which were born when I was a very little girl.
1. Visit every continent AT LEAST once (North America and South America have been achieved...the rest are still to come)
2. Read every Brian Jacques novel ever written
3. Visit “The Wonderful Wizarding World of Harry Potter” AND buy my own wand.
4. Cook my way through “The Art of French Cooking” by Julia Child
5. Have dinner at the “Eagle & Child” in C.S. Lewis' booth
6. Take AT LEAST one semester of classes at Oxford University
7. Go skydiving, bungee jumping, or SOMETHING that requires me to leap from a very high location
8. Visit every state in the Union.
9. Adopt a Peruvian child
10. Get a tattoo
11. Learn how to make French macaroons PERFECTLY
12. Have a handwritten-letters penpal with someone I have never met in real life. (Grace Doolittle, June 30th, 2011)
13. Visit the Holy Land
14. Write a novel that actually gets published.
15. Make it onto the New York Time’s Best Seller list
16. Learn how to French braid
17. Ride an elephant
18. Perform as the Witch in Into the Woods
19. Perform in Wicked as ANY role
20. Visit the Eifel Tower
21. Visit Machu Pichu
22. Have dinner at Caprial and John Pence’s Supper Club
23. Meet Paula Deen AND cook with her
24. Meet J.K. Rowling
26. See Imogene Heap in concert
27. Attend culinary school
28. Get. My. Degree.
29. Stand on a Broadway stage
30. Meet Douglas Gresham AND have a conversation with him
31. Meet Adam Young AND have a conversation with him
32. Take an art class and actually apply myself this time
33. Get to the point that I am reading my Bible every day habitually
34. Perform in "Les Miserables" in some capacity
35. Direct a theatrical performance (Hansel and Gretel, Opening Night 9/24/2010)
36. Open my own Etsy shop
Yes, these things may seem silly. Odd. I know they are truly a random collection of dreams, woven of my own heartstrings and overly vivid imagination.
But I don't care. These are my dreams. These are my goals.
And you can't make me smaller.
My heart is just too big.
Let go of the world you know, and plug in the party lights / Soak your cares in the solar flares that light up these island nights / Orange eclipse, I can taste your lips in the citrus afternoon / If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, / 'cause there's footprints on the moon ~The Yacht Club, Owl City
