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| Me swimming with dolphins. Maybe someday it will happen out in the ocean. This was at a beautiful dolphin sanctuary. I felt so much love energy in these beautiful beings. |
Leslie's Original Life List
spend a day on a boat on the great lakes*
visit the Indian reservations
make healing blankets that are filled with love and hope
stand under the waterfalls
spend a afternoon on an ocean raft tour
sit in the water at the edge of the Burgess Falls Waterfall and meditate
buy a player piano
take piano lessons
learn how to play harmonica
take drum lessons
learn how to play a few chords on the guitar
learn how to play a song on the guitar
play guitar around a camp fire
finish writing a song
write children’s books to raise money for the Key Foundation
dance, dance, dance
climb a fire tower and look out over the land
get season tickets to …. the ballet, the symphony, or the theater
hike day trip trails throughout the seasons of the year… in every city you live
make a video/movie story
rent an RV and roam around out west
find the man in the Carolinas that you “saw” would be your lover
take a cross country photo tour
travel to the holy lands and walk barefoot on the streets
have many, many autumn parties with cider and fire pits and friends
go out on a harley (with a driver) and drive on a back road during the summertime
dance in a mosh pit
experience contact dancing
hang glide (low gliding!) in a beautiful valley area
go indoor “sky diving” since real sky diving seems like a miserable form of torture
swim with dolphins
grow blackberries outside your kitchen door
grow herbs outside your kitchen door
visit the Biltmore Estate
play in the sand of the North Carolina Beaches
rent a beach house with your family for the weekend
spend a month in New York City in the spring
go to Ireland and walk through a fairytale like lush green page from my calendar
get Front Row tickets to a favorite rock star concert and rock out like a groupie
build my house stereo system so i can rock out, swing, or float to the music in every room of my house and dance my way to every room
draw pictures while sitting in the woods
write fantasy stories while sitting under a canopy of trees with light streaming in patterns on my paper
spend afternoons in the forest, sleeping, dreaming, coloring, and dreaming
have a neighborhood films series and explore the culture of film with people who know more than you
watch black and white movies, foreign movies, musicals, teen dramas, documentaries, and the chic flicks... watch a variety of movies with the variety of people that you love
watch teen movies and paint your toe nails … enjoy the drama and the humor of your past
have many many parties…
dancing parties outside under twinkle lights
spring parties with fancy drinks and beautiful flowers
tea parties for children
crazy rocking dancing parties
plan “the pond party” with the concert and the lightening bugs
dive in to the femine core of love in women
find the woman with long dark hair that I saw in my vision of love
find the center of balance between my femine and masculine truth
go as deep into the country as possible and look for the largest condensed gathering of lightening bugs you can find in a field of grass… take a picture
put a bed on my back porch
hang a bed from a tree
hang a swing in my house
lay a blanket in a field during the daytime every summer and dream like a child
sing live karaoke (someplace other than the retirement home for grandma!)
speed read an entire section at the library
explore our family tree
paint an old car crazy ways
ride around town in a beautiful old show off car
paint and send letters to friends that are written on huge sheets of butcher paper
play with watercolor paints
paint a portrait of my lover
spend a season with the pottery wheel
create fabric murals that tell stories of your soul
make a calendar
create your burned/carved wood piece as envisioned
make the concrete yard sculptures
make personalized books for my parents and sister
paint an entire block with sidewalk chalk… bring in people from the neighborhood to help
create a mosiac piece
go to highway 40 exit 447 and eat at The Bean Tree.. walk in the stream
go white water rafter on the Olympic course in the smokey mountains
become a no-make up necessary girl
build a community garden
go on a habitat for humanity trip
work with metro community centers to plan quality programs for children and adults
cut my hair short to my chin
wear braids down my back at age 30, 40, 50, 60….
sleep in the desert
buy land in the country with a little cottage house
go snow sledding
learn to love the mean people
take foster puppies to nursing homes and children in the hospital
work as a nanny and work with diverse people I would not otherwise meet, travel with them on their family vacations
work downtown and wear high heeled shoes to work
work in a coffee shop
work as a housekeeper
work as a …. well, work many different jobs and explore the experiences
work as a manager
work as a person being managed
work with my hands
work with my brain
go to Canada with my parents
go to europe for the summer
spend time in the outskirt towns of France and see the countryside
bathe in the sun at a nude beach
go to greece and well… all over the world
take my backpack and hang out in a seclude corner of the park with my laptop all afternoon
visit mother teresa’s ministry house
contemplate becoming a nun
contemplate running away to another country
spend a weekend at a ski lodge in December or January
have a treehouse built for adults… have it available to rent out for the night… so big people can sleep in the trees again
drive across the country on back roads
fall in love with people of the world
buy several houses around the world
study the worlds religions and get to know our universal God Creator in all people and all cultures
take myself to the dichotomous ends of my innocence
feel the fear of the unknown and step ahead anyway
explore my heart’s desires in healthy, holy ways that nurtures my heart to its core… in ways that makes me more able to share deeper love with others
open up my heart to experience infinite love
share my love of life with my blogs so that people across the world are connected to my heart
get proficient enough at web design and graphic design that I can move my virtual online playhouse from my head to computer screens across the world wide web
buy “the” cowboy boots
ride down a country road in a beat up pick up truck singing to the music with the windows down
ride in the back of a pick up truck across farmland
pick blackberries with my sister in the summer sun, buckets tied to our belt loops
break a watermelon open in the field, sit down and eat it with my hands (a favorite memory with my mother as a little girl)
ride in the train engine car and see the tracks in front of me…wear the hat
sleep on a train
learn how to bake and decorate cakes
watch Anne of Green Gables from start to finish in one weekend
sing the sound of music songs in the woods and pretend i am really in the movie
make webpages that tell stories of the people that inspire me
tell my heroes that they have my admiration
find mentors
be a mentor
spend the day in a monastery
sit in a chapel at midnight and tell my heart to the universe
go on a spiritual pilgrimages and soak up the rituals and experiences of the group
do the wine making dance in a barrel of grapes... like Lucille Ball or like in Walk in the Clouds (whichever is more fitting! )
Living the Life List
Now that I have the LIFE LIST in a blog, I am going to start updating it a little more. I hope to post pictures from time to time from experiences I have when I go out to experience something from the list.
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