Life List

This started as an exercise for a course named "Path Finder" by Karen Walrond. I had always had such a list in my head, but now here it is written down beautifully.....

1. photograph 1000 portraits

2. knit 1234 hats and give them away

3. a 10 days trekking

4. Santiago walk (or analogous way, i.e. Francigena)

5. publish a photographic book

6. at least 5 days trip with mum

7. a bread baking course (not snobbing cakes, of course!)

8. learn to weave

9. learn to dye with vegetable dyes

10. learn watercolour

11. draw/photograph 987 postcards and send them

12. write a book

13. a week at a “tropical” paradise relaxing

14. go to India

15. learn to play accordion (my grandfather’s) or shawm (ciaramella)

16. a one week long ride across holland or danemark

17. invite A for dinner and chat till sunset

18. bake a wonderful sacher torte and eat it with the family

19. plant a tree

20. organise a photo exhibit

21. make an handstitched quilt

22. make a machine stitched quilt

23. make three embroidered shirts

24. bake real french croissants

25. grow cactus from seeds

26. have an holiday with my nieces

27. polish my feet nails

28. sing solo to a public

29. make an herbarium

30. learn engraving

31. have a vegetable garden and cultivate also flowers

32. have chickens

33. see a ballet at Opèra de Paris

34. see a performance at Opera House in Sydney

35. live in a house by the sea

36. see an aurora borealis

37. prepare fudge

38. pay a scholarship to 5 children and have them get an education

39. visit Japan

40. have a dog

41. having my portrait painted or drawn

42. a transoceanic cross on a boat

43. make a book

44. knit a pullover for my nieces, for my dad, for my mum, my brother and for P

45. finish an embroidery I promised my mother long ago

46. embroider a madonna my mum gave me, and then give it to her

47. walk barefoot on the sand

48. sleep in a flowered meadow

49. listen to a summer thunderstorm

50. wake up in Verona at the swallows cries

51. the sound of rain on an african roof

52. shoot lightning

53. participate to a creative retreat (SQUAM art?)

54. keep a diary regularly

55. learn to sew my own wardrobe

56. adopt a child

57. climb 5 mountains higher than 4000m

58. go to Argentina and meet al my relatives there

59. read aloud a book to a child

60. take speech training     

61. invite to lunch a person asking for money on the street

62. volunteer for some environment/cultural association

63. write and publish something on a newspaper

64. publish 15 scientific papers in the next 5 years

65. parachuting

66. explore a cave (overcoming my fears)

67. help somebody have a home

68. at least one present to unknown people every year

69.  visit shetland and hebrides

70. shave a sheep, spin the wool and knit a garment for myself with it

71.  go and visit E, and then invite her for dinner

72. make a trekking in a National park in the USA or Canada

73. visit a sandy desert

74. have a volunteering holiday

75. a massage and self care weekend

76. learn Alexander method

77. learn another language

78. a travel by motorcycle

79. a horse riding trip

80. drink a tea in London

81. show to P a rice field

82. make a curtain with bottle caps

83. eat a risotto in a Pamigiano round

84. go to a podologist

85. visit New York

86. knit a blanket

87. visit 200 world heritage sites from UNESCO (http://whc.unesco.org/)

88. spin enough wool to knit myself a pullover

89. dye my hair red

90. visit a buddhist monastery

91. learn to make massage

92. help 5 people finish their list

93. visit Israel with P

94. take a cooking course

95. make a documentary

96. print my photos on canvas and hang them

97. meditate regularly

98. make a web-site

99. create 10 knitting patterns

100. find a publisher for M
101. eat a meal with m using her finest china
102. see live an eruption of Etna with P (anybody else is welcome!).