2. See Lila Downs perform live
3. Receive a letter from Paulo Coelho
4. Start a business plan for a clothing/jewelry/accessory line
5. Perform some spoken word poetry in front of a crowd
6. Read Catcher in the Rye
7. Learn bee-keeping
8. Eat at Tosca in Washington D.C.
9. Meet His Holiness the Dalai Lama
10. Learn how to make a nice looking and tasty fried egg
11.
12. Learn how to flamenco dance
13.
14. Attend the Gandhi-King Conference in Memphis
15. Bike through several states
16. Make homemade paper
17. See the Northern Lights
18. Learn how to pickle things
19. Relocate my old friend Narutai Chantap and visit her in Thailand
20. Take the GREs and do well
21. Learn how to use a potter’s wheel
22. Form a relationship with Adolfo Pérez Esquivel’s aldeas in Argentina
23. Meet Josh Ritter
24.
25.
26. See Lake Victoria
27. Leave the country on a whim
28. Attend a movie premiere wearing a snazzy dress
29. Visit the Alahmbra in Spain
30. View a live Martha Stewart show taping
31. Learn how to change a tire on my own
32. Listen to some poets at the Nuyorican Poets’ Café in NYC
33. Watch every episode of Flight of the Conchords
34. Read V for Vendetta
35. Learn how to walk on stilts
36. Go ice fishing
37. Be in a parade
38. Attend carnavale in Venice, Italy
39. Go on a ghost tour of the Mark Twain House while living in Hartford
40. Write one letter each month for one full year
41. Visit Michael Turchin in Boston
42. Go on a tour of Ben and Jerry’s
43. Read Les Miserables
44. Do cupcake research with Tia Tere in New York City
45. Attend a Pow Wow in New England
46. See another show on Broadway
47. Have one child (or more)
48. Learn how to successfully make sopapillas and red chile from my grandmother
49. Donate blood
50. Be in Mexico for Dia de los Muertos
51. Be on the radio
52. Go to a fortune teller
53. Make homemade jam
54. Meet Patch Adams
55. Make a dress
56. Do something crazy with my hair (i.e. dye it an unusual color, get dreads, shave it, have a few hair wraps)
57. Go to Burning Man with at least one of my siblings
58. Write a book even if it’s only for kicks
59. Read at least one “fun” book each month for one full year
60. Pay my undergraduate debt by the time I’m 35
61. Read Uncle Tom’s Cabin while living in Hartford
62.
63. Be on television
64. Get a poem published in a reputable literary magazine
65. Be in a movie (even if it’s as an extra)
66. Attend the Sundance Film Festival
67. Receive a letter from someone I consider famous
68. Ride in a hot air balloon
69. See an elephant in the wild
70. Visit every continent
71. Ride across Canada by train
72. Go to Bonnaroo in Tennessee
73. Research women’s cooperatives throughout the world that use folk art as a means of generating income
74. Make at least $5 being a street artist for a day
75. Work with Mother Teresa’s Sisters of Charity in Calcutta
76. Create a comprehensive family tree
77. Learn how to sail and live on a sail boat for at least one week
78. Go rock-climbing
79. Obtain a Masters degree and a Ph.D.
80. Attend a FIFA world cup game
81. Watch the Olympics live
82. Camp at the Grand Canyon
83. See a Cirque du Soleil show
84. Grow an herb garden from seed and utilize it
85. Learn how to make tiramisu
86. Keep a plant alive for more than three years
87. Learn at least three languages other than English
88. Read Roots
89. Walk part of the Appalachian trail
90. Visit all 50 states
91. Visit 15 countries by the time I’m 25
92. Set foot in every ocean
93. Hold a fund-raiser or write a grant that raises more than $500
94. Read a book by Mark Twain while living in Hartford
95. Sleep in a ger in Mongolia
96. Visit Yellowstone National Park during the winter
97.
98. Send in a postcard to PostSecret
99. Learn how to make sushi
100. Own a bakery/café/coffee shop
101. Swim in some hot springs in Iceland
102. Visit the hometown of Saint Brigid
103. Have a goat and learn how to make goat cheese
104.
105. Learn how to make spanikopita
106. Visit Prince Edward’s Island and think of Anne of Green Gables
107. Attempt to surf or windsurf
108. Climb Mount Kilimanjaro
109. Learn more about kachina dolls
110. Hug Archbishop Desmond Tutu
111. Gain a basic understanding of Islam, Judaism, Jainism, Christianity, Sikhism, Wiccanism, the Bahai Faith, Buddhism, Taoism, Shintoism, Confusionism and Hinduism
112. Walk the Road to Santiago with my sister Anna
113. Go on a pilgrimage to Chimayo on Good Friday
114. Attempt to skateboard
115. Meet Wangari Maathai
116. Visit Elizabeth Fox in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
117. Live in a foreign country for at least one year
118. Attend a cremation ceremony in Bali
119. Help paint a mural
120. Learn how to play at least three songs on the guitar including Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song”
121. Take an African dance class
122. See a camel spit
123. Become proficient at making origami
124. Learn how to Belly Dance
125. Go through non-violence training
