Today is my birthday. As I do every year, I woke up this morning grateful to have reached another year. Especially since the odds had been against me for making it beyond the first few days of my life. I also woke up excited at the prospect of all I still hope to do in my lifetime.
It got me thinking about the tradition of making a wish when you blow out the candles on your birthday cake (which I plan to do later, thanks to my thirteen-year-old daughter who offered to bake my cake). I’ve always floundered in that moment, trying to come up with a good wish worth making. I’m pretty sure most of them never came true.
So I was thinking this year I would do something different. Instead of making a “wish,” I am going to make an intention about one of my bucket list goals. Something along the lines of “I hope this is the year I get to…” Just to give you an idea of what I might hope for, here are ten items currently on my bucket list (and no, this is not my whole list):
- travel around Tuscany
- take a cream pie in the face – just not shaving cream
- go to the Bristol Renaissance Faire
- study costume design (but not necessarily at a college)
- open a creativity studio for crafts, sewing, photography and writing
- take a class in digital photography
- hang out with Bob Goff
- volunteer as a turn-of-the-century costumed interpreter at a living history museum
- be invited to lead a workshop at a conference
- go on a cruise
I like #5 the best… I’ve been talking to another friend about doing something similar. I selfishly hope that’s the one you choose so I can come visit. 🙂
I would like to go skydiving but I guess I’ll have to make that happen myself..unless someone surprises me 🙂
One of my bucket list wishes mirrors yours – to open a creativity center. I shared this wish with my husband and we’re going to try to make this come to fruition within the coming years (crosses fingers)!