…because sometimes we need more than professional milestones to mark this brief existence…

  • visit Kyoto
  • learn Finnish
  • do a weekend canoe trip
  • do a week-long bike tour
  • appear in a movie
  • visit San Francisco
  • go to Easter Island
  • sing with a big band
  • visit Venice
  • sing in San Marco basilica
  • speak Italian fluently
  • hike in the Alps
  • live on another continent
  • go up the Eiffel tower by stairs
  • visit Savannah, Georgia
  • shake hands with the president
  • be my own boss
  • pet a squirrel
  • read all of Jane Austen’s novel
  • plant a garden
  • make a difference
  • give my friends jobs
  • enjoy food from my own garden
  • teach young people
  • own a Bösendorfer grand piano
  • see the Grand Canyon
  • swim in the Dead Sea
  • write a book