Bucket List

Things I'm going to do, with * next to those accomplished:
  1. Write and publish a novel
  2. Write and publish another novel
  3. Write and publish a non-fiction book
  4. Write a memoir (not sure I want to publish it)
  5. Build an earthbag dome house
  6. Build something out of cob
  7. Kill a chicken
  8. Become a good horseback rider
  9. Learn how to structurally integrate horses
  10. *Grow my hair to my waist
  11. Improve my eyesight close to 20/20
  12. Visit Australia
  13. Do an Esalen work-study
  14. Cruise to Antarctica
  15. Do a week-long water fast
  16. *Do a 36-hour water fast
  17. Teach my son how to play piano
  18. Do yoga with one or both of my sons
  19. *Make an orgone generator 
  20. Build a cloudbuster
  21. Learn permaculture
  22. Do the Advanced Rolfing training
  23. Join an Anthroposophy group again
  24. *Visit Argentina
  25. *Visit Uruguay
  26. Visit Chile
  27. Visit Peru
  28. Visit the Amazon
  29. Ride the train in Curitiba
  30. Visit the Galapagos
  31. Learn how to drive a stick shift
  32. *Be able to breathe twice per minute for an hour (first I put once but I have to make it realistic)
  33. Learn how to make butter
  34. *Learn how to make sauerkraut
  35. Learn how to make cheese
  36. Learn how to make creme fraiche
  37. Milk a cow
  38. Attend the birth of a foal
  39. Understand the difference between a chicken's clucking to lay and clucking because it wants to sit on eggs
  40. Make a vegetable garden
  41. Make a flower essence
  42. Learn how to shoot a rifle
  43. Eat one of those big-assed ants people like to eat in Brazil. Maybe with chocolate
  44. Learn how to make caldo verde
  45. Astrally project
  46. Be able to lucid dream at will
  47. Eat a piece of fresh raw meat (a very small piece) 
  48. Get over my fear of kicking up to a handstand against the wall
  49. Learn proper canning and food preservation
  50. *40-day sadhana with some kind of goal in mind
  51. Visit thermal pools in Brazil
  52. Publish a story in a professional-rate publication
  53. Start a Rolfing practice in Brazil
  54. Swim with dolphins
  55. Cultivate mushrooms
  56. Release fear and denial about my eventual death
  57. Make a mosaic deck
  58. Learn how to drive a horse cart
  59. Go on vacation with Mojca
  60. *Read a book in Portuguese
More to come as I think of them!