Things I would like to do before I die

• Write every day


• Volunteer my time somewhere that has nothing to do with healthcare


• Learn to speak a second language


• Study philosophy


• Get at least one more degree


• Work on my Jon-poems and get them published


• Do a unit of clinical pastoral education, volunteer as a chaplain


• Do a re-write of my novel, Vivian's Disorder


• Draw, paint, write poetry


• Make collages from old pictures


• Read a million, no a zillion, novels


• Get rid of things I don't need


• Plant things in places that I don't live


• Visit people I love


• Sell my home and make a new life in a new place where I can grow old manageably


• Retire and work part time for my son in Miami


• Spend a lot of time at the beach


• Live in a city I have never lived in before


• Visit Ireland and Italy


• Burn my journals


• Do something with my therapy tapes


• Open a cafe-bookstore


• Eat outdoors as often as possible


• Stargaze on clear nights


• Be ready for whatever is to come