Follow That Dream

 "There is a danger in the word someday when what it means is 'not this day.'...The thought 'Someday I will' can be a thief of the opportunities of time and the blessings of eternity."

-Henry B. Eyring

 Someday I will:

Birth a child

Go to Greece 

Go to grad school

Visit Green Gables

Get a gym membership

Read the Bible

See The Rolling Stones with my dad

Not live in snow

Have a beach house

See my Uncle Brad again

Choose someone else's happiness over my own

Bathe in a waterfall(not even kidding)

Have a son named Henry

Learn how to sew

Cut my hair regularly

Watch the real news instead of E's Daily Ten

Meet Matt Dillon

Not need my inhaler

Buy a beach cruiser
Be one with nature

Have a dog named Elvis

Be the best at something

See Van Gogh's Memory of the Garden at Etten for real and somehow try to exit the premises with it on my "person"...

Know all there is to know about the mafia

Learn to make a souffle
Read all of Edith Wharton's books

Sleep outside

Skinny-dip... again

See Les Mis in London

Read The Age of Innocence under a tree with minted Ginger Ale and... macaroons

Try Raspberry Cordial for real

Catch a fish

Buy something from Anthro not on sale

Recycle, Reduce, ReUse

Initiate a national ban against mayonnaise

Publish a manuscript
Drink however much water a day I'm supposed to

Plant a garden

Smile though my heart is aching

Dance in my kitchen with Mr. Wonderful
Have an intoxicating kiss in the rain just like Holly and Paul

Furnish a home in love, laughter, truth, and vintage

See India

Dedicate a whole day to Cary Grant movies

Perfect my glow

Personify "incandescently happy"

Play the piano again

Love a little girl named Fiona. Or Vivienne. Maybe I will love two little girls (!)

Perfectly epitomize Audrey H.

Master my "muchness"

Find the perfect pair of pencil pants
Visit Venice

Make love not war 

Protest against littering

Sing on stage

Stop believing in mermaids 

Bow at my Savior's feet

Learn how to prioritize

Save money

Have a trellis of hydrangeas

Be enchanted by NY again

See the orchestra- any orchestra

Put my personal touch on the world
Sing Moonriver as a lullaby

Memorize all the parts of the brain and their functions

Learn to separate my imaginings from my realities

Learn to cope with my imaginings not being my realities

Try a Turkish Delight

Not go one day without praying
Hold a starfish

Will not want what I can never have
Reach my potential
Know every little thing about something utterly significant
Know every little thing about something utterly insignificant (I'm well on my way to that one already, actually)

Go almost all the way completely Green

Have to stop going to Strung Out shows...

Not regret not smoking weed
See an opera- any opera (which will most likely spoil everyday life for me forever-after)

Be the portrait of a lady- at least once

Be able to shop at a Farmer's Market every Saturday morning

Know all about all the constellations
Care about politics
Dance to Moonriver in an ethereal white dress
Find meaning outside myself
Learn French

Put notes in my kids lunches

... Hopefully before my eternity runs out. Peace and Love.

Artwork: "Memories of the Garden at Etten" by Vincent Van Gogh