Littlepurplecow's List
1. tour Italy s-l-o-w-l----y
2. host a dinner party with eight people I don’t know as well as I’d like
3. adopt a fat and fluffy outdoor cat – one that doesn’t mind my dogs
4. carve my body into a state of fabulous
5. make hot cocoa-cocoa for my kids without fear of burning their tongues
6. rid myself of non-matching coffee mugs
7. interview and publish podcasts of my favorite artists (started)
8. ski black diamond slopes (gracefully)
9. grow sunflowers
10. read the Bible from beginning to end
11. finish writing Lisa’s story
12. stop picking the skin around my fingernails
13. attend a figure drawing class
14. give more stuff away
15. paint my daughter’s ceiling pink
16. invest in a super duper digital camera and take it everywhere
17. watch Steve Penley paint
18. learn to make authentic Italian meatballs
19. de-box and display my grandmother’s tea cup collection
20. find a few good poets to follow
21. buy more ART books and encourage my children to explore
22. walk all the way down the avenue I grew up on and visit my elementary school
23. thank God for something beautiful every single day
24. hug my brother after his football team wins the state championship
25. discover my favorite bottle of wine in the vineyards of Sonoma
26. install a gigantic Bernd Haussman or a Gary Komarin on a blank wall in my home (update: Gary found this post and sent me an email)
27. paint the wall to accentuate it
28. find and follow a few vloggers interested in making the world a better place
29. eliminate the tangled mound of wires beneath my desk
30. jump start Amelia on a blog
31. savor a safari in South Africa with my extended family
32. fill up my iPod Mini so I have an excuse to get a video big boy (the iPhone entered my life, thanks to James)
33. see my mother again
34. wear Prada sunglasses (I'm fine with faux.)
35. make a blue bottle tree and plant it in view from my kitchen window
36. get a great tan every single summer (update: summer of 07 accomplished)
37. stop feeling guilty about wanting to buy expensive shoes (update: do belts count?)
38. beg Melanie to illustrate a cute little graphic header for this visually challenged blog
39. photograph a series of bull portraits (update: started)
40. make a short digital film on the exploration of contrasts
41. make a short digital film on black and white barbershops
42. and then blog about it
43. meet the bloggers in my neighborhood list (update: making good progress - 15 out of 19)
44. ditch my scraps and learn to scribble in a sketchbook
45. put Photoshop on my MacBook and get lost in it for a while
46. dispel racism when it comes in my path
47. do something to help terminally ill children and their families
48. learn to ride a horse
49. spend an entire day roaming MOMA
50. stop taking great health for granted
51. dig deeper into the history behind my Armenian heritage
52. feel confident in my artistic ability (update: making progress, loving my flickr site)
53. bait a hook and catch my own fish, then let it go
54. visit a monestary and talk to monks
55. visit a convent and talk to nuns
56. compare and contrast
57. organize and archive my digital photos so that someone other than me can find things
58. spend more time on the back porch
59. learn to not follow a recipe
60. place more trust in God
61. read the classics I should have read in high school
62. teach my kids how to play poker
63. have a long conversation with Uncle Rudie about World War II
64. find my Dad’s mom (update: started and frustrated)
65. plant Magnolia trees
66. visit Nicolas and Madeline’s organic farm and leave with hands full
67. kick our new business into high gear without sacrificing time with our families
68. have a long dinner at One Market with Janine
69. see the Nutcracker
70. watch my father-in-law birth a calf (update: multiple tries, last try - two minutes late)
71. organize a field trip to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
72. document my family tree
73. be one of Toy’s six-figure video views on You Tube
74. explore the structure of poetry and find a good fit
75. give strength to someone feeling weak
76. walk through the streets of Israel with Tamar
77. remember to charge my cell phone (it's become a nightly habit)
78. enjoy the h*ll out of my twenty-year high school reunion (update: post-poned to next year - what?!)
79. demystify my stuck-in-the-elevator dream
80. explore Howard Finster’s art more carefully
81. get more sleep
82. stop avoiding funerals
83. sit with Aunt Dora on her front porch swing
84. call Jill
85. make Gene feel incredibly special on her 75th birthday (southern supper on the back porch)
86. refresh mi Espanol
87. stay true to myself
88. ride the Tube in London with Annie Mole
89. craft and place clever phrases on hip, fitted t-shirts
90. drink more water
91. see Rock City (well worth it)
92. enjoy more leisurely lunches with cool people I know (update: making progress, though once each week would be ideal)
93. experience a rodeo
94. cut two sugars down to one
95. create a wiki all by myself and then figure out what to do with it (you're looking at it)
96. grow old and stay strong with the Farmer
97. nurture self confidence and humility in my children
98. learn to sew a button
99. say more I love you’s (though I don't intend to stop)
100. finish this post and get started on this list
101. publish a book
102. evolve my blog to consist of more photography
103. do at least three activities from Keri's Guerilla Art Kit
104. camp at least once each year (update: 2006, 2007)
105. submit photography to at least two galleries in Atlanta by January 31, 2008
106. stop saying "um" in podcast interviews
107. wear my own Superhero necklace made by Andrea
108. create and submit one more powerful digital movie for Pangea Day by February 15, 2008
109. afix photographs of family and friends on the long wall to my office and scribble handwritten notes and stories on the wall to guide the viewer
110. visit the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
111. go on a writer's retreat--one of those ones where you go out to the cabin in the middle of nowhere and write for a week with (inspired by Jen Lemen)
112. help my kids start their own Jen Lemen-inspired "Wouldn't-It-Be-Awesome" lists
113. paint a portrait of my children (update: sharpie doodle completed)
114. score a solo exhibit by 2009
115. visit ground zero
116. aggregate all of my contacts' phone numbers, email and snail mail addresses into a single digital address book
117. conduct a podcast interview with Dave Eggers
118. conduct a podcast interview with Anne Lamott
119. visit Istanbul
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