Everyone I know treats milestone birthday years with some degree of dismissiveness until the first time a sentence begins with the words “now that I am 60 …”. Ever since my friend Linda decided to get a tattoo to celebrate her 60th year, I resolved to confront my mortality and get down to business.
I am not going to wait for the official chiming of the clock this year. Instead, I am planning to get a healthy jump on living the dreams these many years deferred. The nagging problem rests not with the doing, but the choosing. Some projects remain appealing; here they are, in no particular order, with no evidence extant of being easily achieved
1. Learning to play golf
2. Taking a Berlitz course in Spanish
3. Running a 5K somewhere in New England
4. Travelling to Ireland and the UK
5. Writing a poem worthy of publication in the New Yorker
6. Documenting one full year by season in photography
7. Packaging a portable “Wrongful Convictions” course
8. Corresponding more the old-fashioned way through letters
9. Going off the grid once each week
10. Converting to Judaism
Stay tuned!
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Wow, number 10 surprised me. All of your goals are extremely doable and some of them can be "in the works" at the same time. Now you inspire me!
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