Have you started thinking about the New Year coming up in a few weeks? Does your mind travel farther than just the next 12 months and dwell on things you might want to do or experience or have before mortality stares you in the face?
I do. Switzerland is one place I'd like to see before infirmity claims my travel days. Coming up with 100 Things Yet to Do was inspired by reading a similar list by another blogger.
So what does a list like this have to do with art and mosaics? I see this as part of the art of living and part of the mosaic of life. As I see it right now there is still some 40+ years ahead for me to enjoy breathing and all the good things that go with that so maybe, just maybe, some of these 100 things will become reality.
1. Finish what I start. I have a habit of good intentions. I'd like to finish those projects important to me before filling my plate with more.
2. Attend my grandson's college graduation. He's only 3 right now, so there is lots of time.
3. Celebrate my grandson's wedding.
4. Be present at the birth of my great grandchildren.
5. Go to New York City with my daughter Kim - see a play on Broadway, visit the Statue of Liberty, shop on 5th Avenue and go to every art museum I can.
6. Go to Rodeo Drive with my daughter Jennifer and shop wherever she wants and have a nice lunch.
7. Have an extended vacation on Kauai, HI with my husband...maybe even more than one.
8. Go to Switzerland.
9. Visit the Louvre.
10. Visit the set of a movie or tv show, sit in a director chair and have lunch with the cast and crew.
11. Meet Nathan Fillion.
12. This one no longer applies.
13. Have a print of one of my art photos used in a set of an office or home in a tv show or movie.
14. Have the financial resources to provide a $1,000 gift to Kiva.
15. Have the financial resources to leave a trust fund for my grandson.
16. Have the resources to give my entire family an Alaskan cruise vacation - all at the same time, sort of a family reunion.
17. Mosaic the top of my dining table.
18. Design the landscaping for our retirement property.
19. Begin conducting creativity workshops to small groups in business and corporations.
20. Begin teaching color appreciation again.
21. Complete my 27 days of... entry for the Photomobile project
22. Learn to play Hearts well enough to be a contender
23. Have a rose garden to rival the one my dad had. **June 2014: got my garden started!
24. Vacation in Puerto Rico.
25. Vacation in Thailand.
26. Publish a book of my paintings.
27. Publish a book of my digital art.
28. Have a one person show of my mandala mosaics.
29. Have a one person show of my digital art.
30. Have a one person show of my art photos.
31. Celebrate one of my birthdays by visiting my parents' gravesite at Punchbowl in Honolulu - with my husband and brother Brian and his wife Debbie.
32. Build a snowman - yep I have yet to do this.
33. Provide a home to an abandoned parrot.
34. Find the best, absolute best, chips and salsa.
35. Own every season of Deep Space Nine on dvd.
36. Design and build my dream art studio.
37. Find the perfect creme brulee.
38. Grow, design and maintain a topiary in the shape of a perfect heart.
39. Take my sister-in-law, daughters, nieces and great-nieces to a weekend cooking retreat.
40. Go camping in Kenya.
41. Learn to weld steel to make a sculpture.
42. Learn to solder.
43. Take a panaramic photograph of the Grand Canyon.
44. Learn to weave on a loom.
45. Vacation in Peru and purchase a parka in a mountain village from a weaving craftsman.
46. Take $5000 to a casino and play slot machines - very frivolous but entertaining.
47. Celebrate the 100th subscription to my blog.
48. Celebrate the 500th subscription to my blog.
49. Celebrate my 100th birthday at a resort in Kauai, HI with my family.
50. Drop two dress sizes and purchase a designer wardrobe from an up-and-coming designer.
51. Have thumb joint replacement surgery. :-(
52. Get back into a walking routine.
53. Maintain a healthy walking regime for the rest of my life.
54. Design the optimally comfortable artist drafting table and have it built in a beautiful wood.
55. Spend a week's vacation at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.
56. Have the financial resources to anonymously help five artists in need.
57. Paint a mural on a public building using my "geometric" style.
58. Learn to throw pots.
59. Become a mentor to a young artist.
60. Travel to where wild amazon double-yellow headed parrots live and photograph them.
61. Attend a Japanese Tea Ceremony.
62. Read the biography of Catherine the Great.
63. Go on an artist retreat.
64. Go deep sea fishing.
65. Sail on the Nile River.
66. Explore Cambridge University and publish a photo tour book of the trip.
67. Eat at three outdoor cafes in Paris.
68. Create an app for the iPhone and iPad of flitting butterflies. **June 2014: discovered that programming is not my thing!
69. Contribute to the development of an educational app for the iPhone and iPad.
70. Take a photo tour of Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
71. Take a tour of Kauai, HI in an open door helicopter.
72. Learn to make dill pickles.
73. Design and grow an herb garden.
74. Design and build an herb drying shed.
75. Tour ancient castles in Scotland and Ireland.
76. Dig a dinosour fossil in Montana.
77. Take an archeology vacation.
78. Visit the Valley of the Kings.
79. Volunteer my time as an artist in a local public school.
80. Have the grace to share my faith.
81. Visit the Vatican and light a candle to honor my paternal grandfather.
82. Learn calligraphy in honor of my dad.
83. Endow a business school in honor of my mom.
84. Build up a collection of bonsai trees. **June 2014: I have four!
85. Learn to care for orchids.
86. Launch my art pendant line in my Etsy shop.
87. Visit Gettysburg National Park.
88. Charter a jet and take my daughters on a trip of their choice.
89. Spend a month vacation with my husband in Mendocino, CA.
90. Go to Maine and enjoy the perfect lobster dinner.
91. Own an iPad with WiFi + 3G **June 2014: have an iPad 4 with retinal display
92. Take a summer train tour of Europe with four art friends as my treat.
93. Own a new Land Rover LR2 in the color Rimini Red.
94. Go whale watching in Hawaii with my husband.
95. Vacation in Australia and take photos of the Great Barrier Reef.
96. Attend an opera at la Scala.
97. Have enough art studio space to do a work 3 foot by 6 foot.
98. Treat my husband, brother, sons-in-law, nephews and great-nephews to a NASCAR Racing Experience holiday.
99. Enjoy a houseboat vacation at Mt. Shasta Lake in California.
100. Meet author Sue Grafton.
What would be in your list of 100?
Hey, I think your list is great. So honored to have inspired you to do a list.
Posted by: Lu | 12/13/2010 at 06:00 PM