dream list:

1. ★work from home
   

2. ★have a strong community here
   

3. ★have an inspirational mentor
   

4. ★be gifted a professional grade camera and be given a few lessons in its use
   

5. ★paint a gratitude tree in the house, add something to it every day and give something away from it 4 times a year
   

6. ★get fan email
   

7. ★have a richly spiritual family - where we speak openly and casually about matters of the spirit
   

8. ★work for StoryCorps
   

9. ★travel somewhere to help people (like with Habitat for Humanity?) in a way that will be a transformative and meaningful experience for all
   

10. ★go to high tea at the Aviara
    

11. ★go to the Huntington Library
    

12. ★take 6 months off to travel the states in an RV with the kids when they’re old enough to learn something
    

13. ★go to the Getty
    

14. ★build an apartment atop a new garage
    

15. ★and have someone we love live there
    

16. ★once so that we can live mortgage free
    

17. ★and once so that they can live there for free and put their lives together
    

18. ★give - in a big way - to other people
    

19. ★have two kids
    

20. ★have a kind young man in our lives who loves our boy and is eager to be a playmate/babysitter/talker of boy things who will be here throughout P’s childhood.
    

21. ★remodel the bathroom- so it’s light, sparkly, safe and playful, just like the ocean
    

22. ★be published as an essayist
    

23. ★host a large family Thanksgiving in Big Bear
    

24. ★host a holiday meal at Mom’s house
    

25. ★get a masters in Library and Information Science
    

26. ★become a librarian
    

27. ★teach little kids
    

28. ★teach high school english
    

29. ★write children’s books
    

30. ★attend services at Glide Memorial
    

31. ★Attend the birth of a child that is not my own.
    

32. ★make a neighborhood blanket for Porter like Dave’s - congruently as M does the same for her brood and we can drink tea and work on them together
    

33. ★Live next door to my sister- in- law and live abundantly
    

34. ★do an untour
    

35. ★be gifted the opportunity to lease a horse
    

36. ★have a place to ride and people to ride with that make the experience a retreat
    

37. ★create a new friendship with an old friend
    

38. ★read Paradise Lost with smart people.
    

39. ★chalk paint the kitchen wall.  Make it organized, artful and fun
    

40. ★have a really well trained dog
    

41. ★be known for rest and spirit-full Sundays that friends and family love to be a part of
    

42. ★have a toddler play group that’s focused on creativity, art, discovery and love (with moms who enjoy each other)
    

43. ★get NPCA to make our street a one-way
    

44. ★take my mom on a vacation that she can feel relaxed , inspired and thoroughly enjoy
    

45. ★feel strong, sexy, beautiful and energetic
    

46. ★Get married
    

47. ★Teach someone to read
    

48. ★Swim with dolphins someplace exotic
    

49. ★see the Rose Parade in Pasadena with the family
    

50. ★become as familiar with the California coast North of San Francisco as I am South
    

51. ★Stay with Echo at the Sheep Dung Estates
    

52. ★Go on one of those photo safaris at the WAP
    

53. ★Work for a non-profit
    

54. ★be a baby cuddler at a hospital when my children are grown
    

55. ★Take Magoo to DC when he starts to study American History
    

56. ★Take Magoo to see Maya ruins when he enters the 6th grade
    

57. ★challenge and inspire my children’s hearts and souls in new and bigger ways as they age - by what I do as well as by what they do
    

58. ★document/record my parents talking about my family’s history
    

59. ★learn more about my uncle
    

60. ★visit the Adirondacks with Magoo
    

61. ★Be experts at vacationing extravagantly in our home town: Stay at Paradise Point with K and Magoo
    

62. ★have a family with a rich oral history in K’s family tradition
    

63. ★speak Spanish fluently
    

64. ★spend a week at a spa in Mexico
    

65. ★spend a summer in Europe staying in a charming little house and traveling to other countries from there
    

66. ★stay in New Orleans for a week during the Jazz festival.  Have a house to retreat to that is beautiful and old.
    

67. ★visit Monticello again
    

68. ★interview family and friends to capture memories of K’s mom for Magoo.
    

69. ★write a series of children’s books with K’s mom as the main character for the family
    

70. ★Write children’s books, publish them and make money from them
    

71. ★be a spiritual light to others
    

72. ★have my store really truly be a heart of the community and share love
    

73. ★ride a bike over the Golden Gate Bridge on a sunny day
    

74. ★Attend the Valentines Day Pillow fight in San Francisco
    

75. ★Stay in a tree house on Vancouver Island