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About a month ago I was happily reading the online version of The Daily Mail which is nothing more than the UK's version of US Magazine; when I stumbled upon an article about this amazing short independent film, that has totally wrecked my life. It featured these 3 guys who are filmmakers and artists that spent a month and a half traveling around 11 countries filming this fellow named Rick walking towards the camera, and compounded all the places they visited into a one minute masterpiece. It is incredible! Here is this guy walking while the venues change around him, some of which I visited during a trip to Europe with my high school language arts class. That film is my new drug and I cannot stop watching it. Later that day as soon as I walked into my house I showed it to Carl and we began to make plans to make our own version, setting out for an adventure as soon as possible. The problem is, I don't know where to start.
I'm not quite sure why that one thing struck a chord so deep down in my soul but it has and I've been obsessively compiling a "bucket list" of things I want see, eat, hear, learn and experience since. Some are obtainable, others I'm not sure will ever be but by God I want to try. For years I have been stuffing little nuggets of "one day I will do's" into my back pocket for safe keeping, but after watching that short film I am just chomping at the bit to lace up my boots and get my Indiana Jones on.
Taped to my bedroom wall is a large sheet of paper I borrowed from Annie's easel that I have begun writing all of my wants into 3 columns of Before December 31 , Before I'm 40 and Before I'm dead. Naturally all the big ticket items are in the "dead" column with the sincere hope that I can afford to make these dreams a reality, since it gives me additional time to save up the money. Of course in a pinch I can always remarry someone with the extra cash flow if I'm getting down to the wire. Honestly it has helped me to remember some things that seemed so significant at one time in my life, it makes me laugh to think how easily I had forgotten all about them.
Will I realize all of my desires and create my own 1 minute video of my amazing journey? Probably not. But boy will I be livid if I die before I achieve at least half of them.
Here are a few of mine:
Before December 31, 2011
Be able to put on, button up and breathe in my wedding dress.
Develop all random film canisters and place pictures into an album.
Learn how to start a fire with a flint rock and 2 sticks, pitch a tent by myself.
Spend the night fishing on the pier.
Start playing the piano again.
Learn how to make my Grandmother's green pepper jelly.
Sending friends and family postcards just to say hello.
Go oyster and clam digging with my kids.
Tie a cherry stem with my tongue.
Before I'm 40
Learn how to play the drums.
Become a certified lifeguard.
See the Cherry Blossom Festival in D.C. and the Rockettes in at Radio City Music Hall.
Help my kids build a treehouse.
Be able to communicate in Spanish and French.
Ride a horse along the shore.
Walk through an Indiana cornfield.
Before I Die
Drive across the U.S. in an old Jeep Wrangler, jeans and a white tank top.
Backpack in Europe with my kids.
Sail to Key West with my family.
Work on a vineyard, be an assistant to a glass blower, learn to dance the Tango.
See the sun rise and set over the Pacific, Arctic and Indian Oceans.
Watch my children get their college diplomas.
Visit Australia and pet a wallaby.
Learn to crack a whip like Indiana Jones.
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