Monday, May 5, 2008

Before I Kick the Bucket...

I want to play and swim in phosphoresence in the ocean again during one of those beautiful, perfect nights (its like the stars are in the ocean).......I want to dance in a burlesque show....boo boo bee doop!...I want to sail around the world.....and swim with dolphins, sea horses, and whale sharks........and Great Whites (but in a cage)..... I want to climb and have a picnic on Machu Picchu........I want to live in South America for 1 year... I want to see the Belizean sun set on one side of an island and run to the other side to see the moonrise... I want to be hugged by a chimpanzee.....I want to body surf all day long in the Pacific Ocean... I want to kiss someone inside a Redwood Tree....and see starfish in tidepools... I want to have a vinyard and make my own wine... I want a daughter named Siena (like the city in Italy, the oil paint color "burnt siena" and after actress Sienna Miller)....I want to meet more cool people, I have met so many awesome, inspirational people on my travels (Shawn, Lisa, Marta, Dice).....I want to go to Cuba and see all the old cars and do some serious salsa dancing....I want to join the Peace Corps...I want to adopt a child...I want to be a traveling nurse...I want to work for the United Nations...I want to see the aurora borealis....Go to Carnival in Venice and wear one of those masks...and then go to Carnival in Brazil... I want to sit naked on a nude beach all day long in the French Riviera...I want to charm a snake...smoke a hookah in Instanbul....hop around the Greek Islands and see all ruins in Athens so I can put a picture to all the Greek Mythology I have read...I want to Gamble in Monaco...see the running of the bulls.......I want to backpack around Asia, South America, and New Zealand (checking Europe off the list this summer)......I HAVE to see the Flaming Lips and Neil Young in concert..... I want to make people smile....I want to leave the world a better place.......I want to always follow my heart, and have a passion for everything I do.....I want to become a skilled rock climber.....I want to go to Africa and see lions and giraffes....... I want to own a house in SLC-the Avenues- (because my family is here), Roatan (Honduras), and Montana .........I am not sure where I want to call home and live yet, but it will have a pond with ducks that I can feed bread to and forest in my backyard (and a rope swing over my pond) ...........I want to catch a really big trout with my fly rod and eat him.......I want to know what it feels like to be in a good relationship that isn't controlling and that is based on trust..and then....I want a huge garden with lilac bushes and every flower you can think of... and a vegetable garden....I want to marry that sweet man and be ridiculously in love and have some babies (when I am 30).............I want to travel with my hubby before we have babies.........I want to take turns reading books with my hubby before bedtime...I want to experience holding my baby and rocking in a rocking chair and breastfeeding him or her (you know... the whole bonding thing)...... I want to write a book..... take lots of pictures of everything and pretend to be a professional photographer for National Geographic....and then paint those pretty pictures...I want a fulfilling career.... I want a Master's degree and possibly a Doctorate maybe from an ivy league school (Columbia)........I want to become trilingual (Spanish, Italian, English)...... I want to be able to jam out on a guitar like I mean business.....I want to make lots of beautiful art........one morning, when I am laying in bed with my baby, my love, and my doggy on the foot of the bed I will think to myself - "this is what life is all about."........ I want to see the Earth from space........I want to write poems..... read every book I possibly can...... Run a marathon........ see shooting stars and make wishes (every summer)........ explore (inside and out)........ I want to have naked picnics....and have the best friends anyone could ask for (I already have this! love you guys)....... I want to be able to thank and give back to my grandma after everything she has done for me.......and to my Mother (i love her) ....... I want to succeed and see all the people I love do the same.

"All the people I love are here"

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