Before I Check Out, I'd like to.....
Aug 6th, 2006 | 07:05 PM
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Before I Check Out, I'd like to.....
Visit Tuscany in a villa with friends...
Cook with a classic....
Explore Alaska....
Hike and kayak the Napali Coast on my terms...
Swim with dolphins on their terms....
Hang out with a few aboriginies....
Witness the northern lights....
Bring joy to a stranger....
........and......on and on and on......
Cook with a classic....
Explore Alaska....
Hike and kayak the Napali Coast on my terms...
Swim with dolphins on their terms....
Hang out with a few aboriginies....
Witness the northern lights....
Bring joy to a stranger....
........and......on and on and on......
Aug 6th, 2006 | 07:58 PM
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Spend months in the Cotswolds and Cornwall...
Say hello to sheila in Scotland...
I want lots of grandbabies! so I would like to ....
Spend a summer in a Tuscan villa with my children and their children ..
Take those little ones, one at a time, on a trip to the place of their choice...
Have tea in Kyoto..
and yes, on....and on.... and......
Say hello to sheila in Scotland...
I want lots of grandbabies! so I would like to ....
Spend a summer in a Tuscan villa with my children and their children ..
Take those little ones, one at a time, on a trip to the place of their choice...
Have tea in Kyoto..
and yes, on....and on.... and......
Aug 6th, 2006 | 10:47 PM
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...have enough money and time that I can jump on a plane on a whim...
...travel the world w/my husband and future child/ren...
...spend each summer renting a house in different parts of Europe....
...hang out in Hawaii for a few weeks and have drinks w/the K9s...
...visit Scandanavia and find my childhood friend who moved back to Norway when we were in 7th grade.
...go back to Australia and see more of it...
...go to New Zealand...
...watch penguins play in the Galapagos Islands....
...visit the towns in E. Europe where my grandparents and great-grandparents emigrated from...
...go to the bottom of the Grand Canyon (I've wanted to do that since I was 8 and watched Marcia, Jan and Cindy Brady do it!)
...walk the Great Wall of China...
...take a nap on a picture postcard beach in Tahiti or some S. Pacific Island...
...travel the world w/my husband and future child/ren...
...spend each summer renting a house in different parts of Europe....
...hang out in Hawaii for a few weeks and have drinks w/the K9s...
...visit Scandanavia and find my childhood friend who moved back to Norway when we were in 7th grade.
...go back to Australia and see more of it...
...go to New Zealand...
...watch penguins play in the Galapagos Islands....
...visit the towns in E. Europe where my grandparents and great-grandparents emigrated from...
...go to the bottom of the Grand Canyon (I've wanted to do that since I was 8 and watched Marcia, Jan and Cindy Brady do it!)
...walk the Great Wall of China...
...take a nap on a picture postcard beach in Tahiti or some S. Pacific Island...
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Aug 7th, 2006 | 06:23 AM
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Funny, CAPH---boldface for the kids? 
As much as I love to travel, my life goals don't include specific places to go. Rather, I wish for a sense of peace about the future (my children's and the world's), health, and the ability to help others whever I can and wherever I can.
I realize how corny that sounds . . .
As much as I love to travel, my life goals don't include specific places to go. Rather, I wish for a sense of peace about the future (my children's and the world's), health, and the ability to help others whever I can and wherever I can.
I realize how corny that sounds . . .
Aug 7th, 2006 | 06:49 AM
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OWJ -
>...go to the bottom of the Grand Canyon (I've wanted to do that since I was 8 and watched Marcia, Jan and Cindy Brady do it!)<
If you aren't otherwise engaged, join me next fall. Maybe BayouGal will join us and we'll recreate the Brady girls!
>...go to the bottom of the Grand Canyon (I've wanted to do that since I was 8 and watched Marcia, Jan and Cindy Brady do it!)<
If you aren't otherwise engaged, join me next fall. Maybe BayouGal will join us and we'll recreate the Brady girls!
Aug 7th, 2006 | 07:05 AM
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cd... I always hoped to be able to figure that out, too. That hope became rather urgent a personal tragedy. I was definetly a searcher, but never seemed to find a satisfying answer, then I read, "My purpose is to become spiritually fit for maximum service to God and others."
It clicked for me. I said to myself, "I can live with that" and have been greatly consoled and strengthed by it for many years now.
I am blessed to have been able to cross that one of my list a long time ago.
In a lighter vein, I want to see and experience these places
Australia
New Zealand
Tahiti
Northern England
More of France than Paris
More of Umbria
Le Marche
More Italian Lakes than Como & Maggiore
It clicked for me. I said to myself, "I can live with that" and have been greatly consoled and strengthed by it for many years now.
I am blessed to have been able to cross that one of my list a long time ago.
In a lighter vein, I want to see and experience these places
Australia
New Zealand
Tahiti
Northern England
More of France than Paris
More of Umbria
Le Marche
More Italian Lakes than Como & Maggiore
Aug 7th, 2006 | 07:08 AM
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Want to be able to open a package of flashlight batteries without swearing or cutting myself into the ER....
Drive cross town without getting runoff the road by someone driving an SUV, drinking a latte while talking on a cell phone....
Get in the FASTEST lane at the grocery store...
Not have my BIL order his foo foo drink when out with us boys....
Be able to channel surf from news program to news program and not have them all on commercial...
Get my neighbors hearing aids fixed so he can hear when his franctically yipping dogs want to come back in the house at night sooner than the usual 30 mins ....
Just order the whole darn bottle vs ordering 4 glasses of wine during dinner at a restaurant.....
See travel pix with people in them....
Pull off a 3 week trip to Italy AND 3 weeks in Kauai w/o filing BK....
Drive cross town without getting runoff the road by someone driving an SUV, drinking a latte while talking on a cell phone....
Get in the FASTEST lane at the grocery store...
Not have my BIL order his foo foo drink when out with us boys....
Be able to channel surf from news program to news program and not have them all on commercial...
Get my neighbors hearing aids fixed so he can hear when his franctically yipping dogs want to come back in the house at night sooner than the usual 30 mins ....
Just order the whole darn bottle vs ordering 4 glasses of wine during dinner at a restaurant.....
See travel pix with people in them....
Pull off a 3 week trip to Italy AND 3 weeks in Kauai w/o filing BK....
Aug 7th, 2006 | 07:37 AM
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Hi sistahlou ~
I will share a little story with you because of your "Witness the northern lights" wish.
When I was a child, we lived in Northern Minnesota. One late night my father came up to my room while I slept and quietly woke me. He led me down to our deck outside, smiled and said, "I wanted you to see this."
There in the sky danced the most wonderful color I have ever seen. It was like magic prancing throughout the sky, like an entire separate world having a celebration. It was in a word, magnificent.
It was a memory that we shared for MANY years and neither of us had seen the lights again. We remembered it well many times until he passed away three and a half years ago.
A couple years ago, my husband and I were remembering this same story. We missed him so, but smiled as I told the story. Of course, I shed a few tears, but it was such a happy memory.
On the evening of that same day, our neighbor called us and excitedly yelled over his cell phone to "come outside". For the second time in my life, there in the sky were the Northern Lights dancing around for us. My husband's mouth dropped, I have never seen him so shocked, it was as if my father was stopping in for a visit. Obviously my neighbor had no idea of the significance of what he had just done. I only thanked him, with tears rolling out of my eyes, for calling us to come outside so we could see this awe inspiring sight.
I do so hope you will be able to get your wish.
And when you do, say hi to my Dad for us, will you?
p.s. He would have like it that I told you this story, sistahlou, he was a good story teller, I hope I did this one justice.
I will share a little story with you because of your "Witness the northern lights" wish.
When I was a child, we lived in Northern Minnesota. One late night my father came up to my room while I slept and quietly woke me. He led me down to our deck outside, smiled and said, "I wanted you to see this."
There in the sky danced the most wonderful color I have ever seen. It was like magic prancing throughout the sky, like an entire separate world having a celebration. It was in a word, magnificent.
It was a memory that we shared for MANY years and neither of us had seen the lights again. We remembered it well many times until he passed away three and a half years ago.
A couple years ago, my husband and I were remembering this same story. We missed him so, but smiled as I told the story. Of course, I shed a few tears, but it was such a happy memory.
On the evening of that same day, our neighbor called us and excitedly yelled over his cell phone to "come outside". For the second time in my life, there in the sky were the Northern Lights dancing around for us. My husband's mouth dropped, I have never seen him so shocked, it was as if my father was stopping in for a visit. Obviously my neighbor had no idea of the significance of what he had just done. I only thanked him, with tears rolling out of my eyes, for calling us to come outside so we could see this awe inspiring sight.
I do so hope you will be able to get your wish.
And when you do, say hi to my Dad for us, will you?
p.s. He would have like it that I told you this story, sistahlou, he was a good story teller, I hope I did this one justice.
