I wrote this Friday Five a while back but was unable to post it. Just saying, so you know I am not ill! :-) Actually I am heading out of town and will not be able to read your posts till sometime early next week, but I'll do so then. Have fun, and don't think too hard about this one. I figured we were due for some fun after Lent and Good Friday and Easter and all that churchy stuff! Four days of being mostly in bed with a reallyhowever, has been cheated in my case and I am up and taking nourishment. In that vein of thought, do you have a "Bucket List"? In other words, from the movie of the same name, five things you want to see, do, accomplish, etc. before you kick the bucket?
This is a biiiig bucket. :-)
Get legally married, knowing that we'll have the same rights and protections as any other couple as we age in the state where we live. Things are starting to look promising as momentum builds across the country!
Go back to seminary: maybe chaplaincy, maybe full ordination. If ordination, focus on homiletics. Learn to read Biblical Greek & Hebrew.
See a sunrise over the Grand Canyon, leaf-peep in New England, sail through the Fjords of Norway, dogsled on the Alaskan Glaciers, go on a "culture spree" in NYC, see the ancient wonders of Rome, eat my way through Tuscany, hear great German music in person, and lie on the beaches
of 
the Mediterranean. Hmmm... and maybe, once, Christmas in London--including Lessons & Carols at King's College, a pilgrimage to Aldeburgh and time at Iona, while I'm in the neighborhood.
Keep my choirs growing and healthy. Keep challenging myself as a conductor. Learn to play trombone & bassoon, and spend some time in a community orchestra (playing one of those or taking up cello again, with Lori as my stand partner), just for the fun of it. Maybe conduct one.
Suffer a near-miss with a big bag of money falling from the sky. Though it won't fall on my head and kill me, it WILL make possible all of the above, as well as a quiet spot on a lakeshore to call our own, with regular time:
- to be with Beloved and watch her create things
- to read
- to hang out with our pups
- to write music and poetry (maybe publish something?)
- to just be in nature
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Love your list, especially the first item on it.
Great list. I resonate with so much of it.
And in the weird department--in my dream last night I was in Norway. It was winter (snow on the ground, ice on the roads, and I was driving!), and it was summer. Beautiful country...
Oh. My. Goodness. I think I found another soul sister!
What a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful list. I laughed, I cried, I thought about playing the bassoon.
P.S. When you narrowly avoid that big ol' bag o' money, can I be standing nearby too?
GREAT list! Especially the first on the list - may it be so - and soon.
Iona is definitely on my list too.
Hee hee, a near miss with a big bag of money.
yes, to the first AND to the last (big bag o'money.)
Sounds nice!
I pray for your first item, as I wish it for my daughter and her partner, too. So I'm praying for you, too. I thought I'd learn Biblical Greek, but after two different tries, I just have the books, but maybe there's hope. . . .
I hope for the marriage too - and anytime you want to see a sunrise at the Grand Canyon let me know - I can help you out with that one!! And when I was younger I played the bass clarinet...not exactly a bassoon, but close....and I loved it!
Sorry I'm late to this. Just wanted to say I hope #1 comes for you and Beloved soon.
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