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This all started here, and it's changed everything for me. I'd love to read yours too. Make your own Mighty Life List, and send your URL to maggie at mightygirl dot net with the subject "Mighty Life". My list:

Go dog sledding

Safari in Africa

Scuba dive

See the salmon run in Alaska

Ride a camel in the desert

Pyramids at sunset

Tango in a milonga

~~Cross the Canadian border~~

See Cuba

Have a croissant at a French cafe

~~Try escargot~~

Take a road trip across the U.S.

Watch the sunrise over the Agean

Whiskey at a pub in Ireland

Linguica in Portugal

Open a Swiss bank account

Stay in the ice hotel

Visit that church made entirely of bones

Make butterscotch from scratch

Go on a multi-day biking trip

Fund and finish my art project/store

Gather a few dozen people to blow bubbles from the Golden Gate Bridge

~~Attend the San Francisco Black and White Ball~~

Grow vegetables

Learn to roll in a kayak

Publish a piece of fiction

Know basic French

Know basic Mandarin

Set foot on all seven continents

Set foot in all fifty states

Help someone get into or through college

Stand atop the Great Wall of China

Stand inside the Taj Mahal

Host an annual party when the fruit trees bloom

Go clamming again

Do two pull ups

Go berry picking and make pies

Meet Ms. Winfrey

Have a dog again

Take tap dancing lessons

Section hike the Applachian Trail

Make my own perfume

Launch a new Mighty site

Take Hank camping

Make a peaceful living space for our family

Institute chocolate and champagne Tuesdays

Tithe

Do a “10 Things You Don’t Know About Women” feature for Esquire

Attend TED

Give $100 to a violin-playing busker

Wear a large hat at the Kentucky Derby

Taste durian

Sparklers with Hank and Bryan

Get in the habit of grand loving gestures

Live in a house with a window seat

Parasail

Have a portrait done of myself in the style of a portrait of my grandmother

Swim with bioluminescent plankton in Puerto Rico

See the floating fire lanterns

Ring a church bell

Attend services at Glide Memorial

Take photos of the little girls twirling outside the Nutcracker

Organize a gathering for strangers I’d like to meet

Rewire a lamp

Use my work to improve lives

Form a workplace with people I love

Repay the woman who let me live with her in college

Participate in a giant food fight

Know San Francisco like the back of my hand

Pretend we’ve had a power outage once a month

Go a day without speaking

Plant a tiny orchard

Carve our initials inside a heart somewhere

Write another book

Watch Hank eat his first ice cream cone

Write thank you notes to my teachers

Own land

Throw a block party

Remove money as a concern

Write a million dollar check to a charity

Help decorate Hank’s bike for a neighborhood parade

Take a two-week vacation without computers

Attend my sister’s nursing school graduation

Zip line through a canopy

Lemonade on the front porch swing, warm summer night

Finish up or give up all the unfinished projects in the house

Play imaginary games with the kiddo

Buy a stock on my own

Make a quilt of Hank’s Christmas annual jammies

Supply an excellent dress-up chest

Have a big wedding anniversary party

Dinner at the French Laundry

Finish the baby book

Christen a boat

Read or attempt every book on the book list I started in high school

Remove toxins from our food and environment

Do something I think I can’t do (marathon, sky dive, hang glide, movie script)

Plant bulbs in a public space

~~Have a family portrait taken~~

See a glacier

Live in another country for a year

Do one of Miranda July’s projects

Narrative Arc

Nov 18 2008

Embroidered text messages received over a one year period.

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Comment by jo-anne in vancouver | November 18th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Amazing how sad I found that.

Comment by Kristina | November 18th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I read through the whole series, and it breaks your heart and makes you scared to get involved with someone. And by “you” I mean me.

Comment by Lyz | November 18th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
IF I was still teaching, this might inspire a fun writing assignment…tell a complete story using text messages. Sounds like a great way to ruin texting for-evah!

Comment by Kelly | November 18th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Wow. Totally, completely heartbreaking. It makes me wish my phone would remember more than 20 texts at a time.

Comment by Riayn | November 18th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Reading the messages was fascinating, but I have to wonder why anyone would go to the bother of embroidering them.

Comment by Melissa | November 19th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Wow. I’m pretty sure I’ve had that same conversation a few times in my life. Luckily before texting was born.

Comment by mai | November 19th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Wish I thought of this idea.

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Comment by Sanders | November 27th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Разве истинная человечность далеко от нас? Стоит возжелать ее, и она тут же окажется рядом!…

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Comment by Hadrian | November 27th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Ученый, ищущий истину, но стыдящийся бедной одежды и грубой пищи! О чем тут говорить…

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Comment by Ellen | November 29th, 2008 at 4:46 am
Hе иди по течению, не иди против течения, иди поперек него, если хочешь достичь берега….

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