My Life: A List
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Here’s the list as of 9 February 2005.
- swam with sharks and touched them
- sailed and camped in the Florida Keys
- waded in blood filled waters while shark fishing
- wandered through alpine meadows and valleys
- camped among bears
- lived on three continents and traveled in eight foreign countries
- loved two women
- married one
- joined a secret society
- earned my eagle scout
- listened to loons while canoeing in Canada
- watched one solar eclipse and several lunar eclipses
- watched a meteor shower
- stayed up all night talking and watched the sunrise with good friends
- learned how to roll a cigarette & blow smoke rings
- shot, killed, and skinned a rabbit
- participated in a yabusame tournament/ceremony wearing traditional shinto clothing
- put out a house fire
- survived another house fire
- watched buffalo and wild mustangs on the open plain
- backpacked in the Ozarks, Ouachita, Devil’s Den, and Philmont
- been thrown from and dragged by a horse
- changed a flat tire in the Arizona desert in summer
- changed my students’ lives
- wrote for a newspaper
- gone scuba diving
- learned CPR
- learned to play the cello
- played with my nephew
- flown in a helicopter
- helped a stranger
- attended a buddhist funeral
- been drunk
- had a really, really bad hangover
- rode an elephant in the jungle
- learned to juggle
- lived without central heating & hot running water for three years
- voted
- eaten fugu, deer rabbit, squirrel, duck, goose, alligator, frog, horse, whale, sea-urchin, and buffalo
- camped on a deserted tropical island
- listened to jazz with good friends
- won a fight
- lost one
- listened to my grandfather’s advice
- learned to start a fire with no matches
- fallen off a cliff
- made a movie
- read many great books
- learned to use a bow and arrow
- saved a life
