Summer's List...Things I Wanna Do 

italics = doing it; strikethrough = done it

1. Travel to Trinidad to see the nesting of the Giant Leatherbacks
2. get a poem published
3. visit Spain. eat tapas and paella. see La Sagrada Familia.
4. swim in the Meditteranean Sea
5. wander through Rome. listen to rock-n-roll on my IPOD while inside St. Peter's Cathedral. see the Sistine Chapel. 
6. stroll the streets of Pompei
7. buy a rug in Turkey
8. see a bear in the wild
9. make a quilt
10. become one of those people who sends snailmail cards on birthdays and holidays
11. make a mosaic - a big one like a table or patio
12. pay off credit card debt
13. once credit card is paid off, reward myself with a cash-bought DSLR and macro lense
14. make recipe boxes for sis and cousins, give them new recipes every year
15. learn Spanish
16. own a house. make it a home.
17. build a greenhouse and grow orchids
18. tackle my fear of pastry and make to-die for pie crust
19. really learn guitar
20. get a couple of my best photos printed big, framed, and hung up
21. get a couple of my pics glicee' printed in large format
22. frame Grandma's intaglio prints
23. sew Christmas stockings
24. make great grandma's yeast rolls
25. backpack Glacier National Park
26. hike Machu Picchu while chewing coca leaves. buy colorful handmade fabrics and share smiles with indigenous people.
27. run my toes through black sand beaches in New Zealand
28. make tamales
29. have a family
30. have an Australian Shepherd
31. garden
32. grow a huge pumpkin (in time for Halloween)
33. donate money to a worthy cause every month
34. get a new tattoo
35. set up a college fund for my niece
36. hula in Hawaii. go fishing and catch a mahi mahi.
37. see fall leaves in Maine and eat lobster 
38. paint pottery. give some away. and keep some.
39. cherish each day
40. write a haiku every Friday
41. pray before ancient Buddhas in southeast Asia
42. take mopeds to see the valley of the butterflies on the Greek Island Rhodes
43. pick peaches and make jam
44. learn to rock climb
45. start a cooking club
46. eat locally, eat seasonally
47. learn more about my Native American heritage
48. photograph tropical birds in South America
49. get one of those Japanese hutches I love
50. design and build a waterfall and koi pond
51. buy beads in Bali
52. raise awareness about ocean protection (whales, coral bleaching, loggerhead turtles, overfishing)
53. through-hike the John Muir Trail, finish by peaking Mt. Whitney
54. attend a day of track-and-field at an Olympics in a foreign country
55. create a family tree using Grandma's geneology research. make it pretty. give framed copies to sis and the cousins.
56. take my mom to Tuscany. rent motorcycles and visit castles.
57. work a project with Water for People
58. find a carved stone Guan Yin statue and find the perfect place for it in the garden
59. plant a garden for butterflies and hummingbirds
60. study for and pass the last part of my engineering exam
61. see Mom and Sis at least once a month
62. have an art studio
63. make really good paella
64. batik some fabric
65. make my own soap
66. build a mason bee house
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Find me at Tao of Summer or  What's up, Buttercup?