“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.”
Anne Lamott
2011 is a blank canvas and I get to place the pigment and oil upon it. If my past is any indicator, not only does it hold the potential of a year but it is the beginning of a new decade that promises to bring many lessons. As any artist, I will sketch the outline of my painting in pencil so that I can erase it and make adjustments and corrections, a list of 31 things that I commit to doing in 2011. Why 31 you ask? I took 20 plus 11 which gave me 31.
A special thank you to my dear friend Janet who helped inspire me to do this. Below I will list all of the items on my list and I will document and blog about each of them. I am so excited to begin, and I am certain that at the close of 2011 I will not be left as I am found now, but new and changed! Let's see shall we?
Thirty One Things I will do in 2011
1. Purchase a guitar and take lessons
2. Write a poem or story and make a photo book to support it.
3. Go to church (at least once)
4. Loose those crazy pounds I let sneak up. Wear my sexy dress for my birthday!
5. See a musical
7. Ask for six people's book recommendations and read them
8. Display family photos in my home
9. Host a girls slumber party
10. See an Opera
11. Make homemade pizza
12. Do an "at home" spa weekend
13. Send a Birthday card to my parents, grandchildren, children and their spouses
14. Have a picnic in the living room in midst of winter
15. Have a body wrap, (seaweed or mud or something)
16. Make fresh squeezed orange juice
17. Travel to Belgium
18. Learn a little french
19. Take a frame worthy photo, frame and display it
20. Prepare an ethnic meal six times... Indian, Italian, Chinese, Greek, French, Cajun.
21. Sing Karoke in public
22. Vist a palm reader or psychic
23. Give $250 annonymously to someone who really needs it.
24. Take Opera voice lessons
25. Camping (twice)
26. Make homemade salsa
27. Don't complain for one week
28. Write a letter to open in 5 years
29 See an opera
30. Do reflexology
31. Send 3 people (not realatives) a surprise
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