How time flies when you are avoiding responsibility

Now it is December 20th and although my Facebook restaurant is well maintained and I have advanced two levels in Vampire Wars I notcis that I have again totally left behind my commitment to myself, my spiritual self and probably all the rest as well. So Mid winter is here and the light begins. Still in the warm up phase for the great experiment of 2010.

So far no one has stumbled onto this blog but I trust the universe to find the support group I need as I continue forward. So what is the Challenge of 2010. Its nothing new really, the same things I have been promising myself for five decades, actually probably only four since I was at least 10 years old before I internalized guilt to the extent my New Years were long journal wallowings in my failings and repititious promises.

However today is different. Today I know that the shoot will always deploy IF I packed it properly. Trust is the process of crossing arms, closing eyes and falling forward, I trust the divine to clear my lines and send the gusts and operate the laws of physics to bring me to the soft landing place. 2010 is about packing the parachute.

I have an amazing bucket list. One item on the bucket list is to complete a triathalon, another is to visit every continent in the world, and a third is to well let me just give it to you, the following is my Twenty Wishes, my bucket list.

1. Complete a triathalon
2. Spend an amazing cultural week in New York complete with Broadway show, Modern Art Museum and Macy's shopping  (my treat) with my BFF and photograph a travel tale of the Traveling Bears in New York.
3. Knit myself, my sons, my DIL (s?), and two BFF's a wearable ensemble of socks, hat, mittens, scarf and sweater.
4. Make snow angels, cross country ski and build an amazing snowman.
5. Memorize my "best" version of the Tao te Ching
6.Watch the Northern Lights again and photograph a Spirit Bear and a Polar Bear (not in the zoo)
7. Visit all seven continents and be the "nail in the shoe" in every one.
8. Paint an oil picture worth framing.
9. Achieve a positive financial balance ALL debts paid and two months of bills in savings.
10. Build or preferrably retrofit a "Green" house where I raise and care for chickens, goats, horse and garden.
11. Own and know how to use and perform once using a Cutlass, a cannon, a bow and arrow and an epee.
12. Complete a 20 minute film and enter it in a film festival.
13. Complete a Nanowrimo challenge.
14. Publish with pay a travel article about a great sea adventure.
15. Sew myself, Sara, sons and wives an exceptional and historically accurate Rennaissance costume.
16. Make camp myself from dirt to dinner ready and coffee on the fire.
17. Make a road trip of at least two days (week if possible) with each of my boys.
18. Graduate from college with a minimum of a Bachelor's degree.
19. Dance in the arms of someone who makes my breath quick not from the exertion but the feeling and experience once more loves first kiss.
20. Visit Bali and Mombasa and swim on their beaches, visit Tibet for the meditation that is peaceful political action, and end with a month in Italy and learn my  grandparents language.

I made this list initially in October 2008 and it stands as the magic I wish to create for my future. If you are reading this, how about you? What is on your bucket list?

Tomorrow maybe I'll write about how this list is coming in the year since its inception and maybe a littel bit about how (since the new thing is the world ends in 2012) I intend to accomplish this list before Jan 01, 2013.