Wonderful blog post, saw on…

1. Win the right to a legally recognized, formal union with my same sex partner.

2. See one of my books hit the Amazon top ten list

3. Travel to the UK, USA and Canada at least once.

4. See more of Australia (Hardly seen any of it and I LIVE here!)

5. Be published in print with a larger scale publisher than I am currently.

6. Be more present in each moment (Live like I was dying)

7. Keep reading Rachelle’s blog and gleaning the wonderful insights and pointers she gives us!

I’ve been reading your blog for a while now and truly appreciate the information and expertise that you share. As I work to finish my nonfiction proposal, I especially liked your post “10 Things Editors Look for in Nonfiction”. Thanks so much!

Best,
Genny

1.) Find someone to represent and sell my WIP once it’s finished. (No, I’m not a terrible writer, even though I’m my own worst critic. Just a taboo subject at points in my story.)
2.) Visit the Taj Mahal(in India, I think.), the greatest monument to love ever built.
3.) See and explore the pyramids in Egypt.
4.) Visit the actual Rainforests before they are totally destroyed.
5.) Meet Stephen King and Ozzy Osborne, my 2 lifelong inspirations.
6.) Grow old with my husband by my side. First good guy I’ve found in almost 40 yrs. (My Dad didn’t count in that way.)

– Sleep in a hammock on the beach

– Pull an all-nighter for a great meteor shower

It’s the simple pleasures for me.

Travel is my bucket list. I share the sentiment of many above. How important is it to experience things of the world? My indecision when it comes to my bucket list revolves around spiritual issues. Does God want us to fulfill our bucket lists? Or, as Christians, should we always be responsible and seek contentment where we’re at? Keep our minds on heaven, in other words.

When it comes right down to it, my family and the life I already have are my joy. Is it right for me to dream of more when I already have so much?

Sorry to answer your question with more questions.

Thanks for the thought-provoking post!

~kristin

I would like to visit Egypt and Isreal within the next 3 years…

I would like to get my Master’s Degree within the next 5 years…

I would like to open a therapeutic riding center for Autistic children in KY within the next 15 years (with the $ from my published books, of course)

Visit Long Ma, China

Meet a friend I have made blogging
who lives across the country from me

Christmas time in New York

1. Learn to scan photos on this here new-fangled all-in-one HP. I’m still not sure why it is so much harder to figure out than the old one.

2. Do Dr. Richard’s #3. That would be fun. Not much chance of that happening, however, but it would be awesome. I would want a whole bunch of witnesses, too.

3. Live in a log cabin and watch stuff like birds and deer in between reading anything I want to for several months–maybe 6 months. Food would be brought in daily by an Italian cook, alternating with a Southern cook like my Aunt Linda.

4. Be a real editor for a whole week. Find that “gem” fiction author and sign him/her.

5. Find my Cherokee ancestors’ stories.

6. Finally accomplish mastering the guitar and play on stage with our band. (Have played the bass guitar with a band and sung in front of audiences, but this is different.)

7. Draw the portraits of everyone I love. In a cartoon strip that runs for 52 weeks.

8. Ride a motorcycle to 49 states. Find friends in each one.

I have more, but ran out of time…cough…cough.

Makes me think…
What’s the way to live through this life-blink?

How do we live ready to die?

It’s not probable. I’d too like the African safari, visit Israel, but it’s not likely… nor hiking the heights of the Himalayas, swimming out into dazzling blues of some South Pacific grotto, sitting under the Sequoias listening to the song of soft rain.

I wonder: Are there places that must be experienced before one is ready to exit stage left?

I once sat beside a woman at the hairdresser’s, and noticed in her hands the title “1000 Places to See before you Die.” Is that it?

I think He made us to long for beauty. And that is the essence of who He is.

So for me, I think the list has just one thing on it… that which will be the struggle of a lifetime, no small challenge to live well in common time:
to daily and viscerally experience the expansive glory of God in my small life.

Because I’m willing to bet that that is the only way to live big.

Oh, I think I took my bucket and wandered off here, Rachelle, but grateful for your gracious hosting of a rambling place…