The orchid bloomed, we have two baby guppies, and our friends Paul and Lizzie and Jack sent us a chess set for xmas. What more can a family ask for? The Beast woke up yesterday and said "let's play chest!" She already knows the difference between the rank and file. Since we're all recovering from colds we decided to watch Mary Poppins too. Thomas and I have been making lists of "50 Things"— he saw it as an affirmation list; I see it as an affirmations/goal list. His list has great things like "small art" and "Saxon churches". Here's my list (which overlaps with his in a couple places— especially owls, and defiant lightness). Peace out people, and Happy New Year.
50 THINGS
1. domesticity (a house in the Bronx)
2. hiking and farming (land in the catskills)
3. relaxation (a sauna)
4. family (adopt a kid)
5. more family (a kitten)
6. more family (a dog)
7. friendships (‘staying in touch’)
8. friendships (an unschooling community)
9. community (conversational Spanish)
10. community (conversational French)
11. activism (fight the death penalty)
12. activism (feed the homeless)
13. activism (anti-war/knitting one hundred hats)
14. self-sufficient farming and localvorianism (keeping bees)
15. self-sufficient farming (summer vegetable gardening)
16. fermented food
17. baking bread
18. knitting sweaters and scarves
19. a sewing machine
20. mushrooms
21. conifers
22. grasses, sedges, and rushes
23. bulbs
24. owls and other birds
25. butterflies and moths
26. chess
27. piano
28. old english
29. british history
30. shakespeare’s plays
31. english pastoral metaphysicals (andrew marvell)
32. ancient greek
33. translate the iliad
34. freud’s collected works
35. freud’s house, london
36. dublin
37. madrid
38. paris
39. madagascar
40. poland
41. rangoon
42. eucalyptus scented san francisco
43. train trip through the deep south
44. yoga
45. black belt in seido karate
46. another marathon at fifty
47. finnegans wake
48. movies with bea
49. night sky
50. defiant lightness