I was talking to a friend of mine a few weeks ago, and we got into a discussion on embracing life. "Don't think; just live" was his advice. (He's not nearly as list-loving as I am...can you tell?) I'm not sure I can scrap thinking entirely, but I did like his philosophy in don't overthink. Skip the tendency to analyze everything to death and just live.
Kari and I talked about it the next day and we discussed whether or not we had bucket lists. (We don't.) Then she told me of a similar list she'd heard of, called a "leap list." It was more focused on things you want to do before you exit the next stage of life. (Before you get married...before you have kids...before your kids are in high school...before your kids graduate from high school...you get the idea, right?) She shared with me some of her leap list thoughts.
Well good gravy, I could be single forever, so I'm not sure about any sort of leaping. SO...I have decided to make mine a livin' list. Things I want to do...in the time frame of "the near future"...to live. To so appreciate the time and energy and abilities and resources God has given me that I want to stop overthinking it and just live.
This is new for me, so it's still a fledgling list. Maybe I'll post more things as I think of them. But for now, here is the start of my Livin' List thoughts:
1. Finish Volumes Two and Three of the Bible study I'm writing. Back in the fall of 2010, Julie Crandall's church (well, the ladies' Bible study) did volume one of this study I'd written. A few weeks ago they asked for volume two. It's not done yet. So I'm working on it and then I want to plow right on to volume three. A longer term goal would be to publish these, but for now I just want to finish writing them so the group can use them!
2. Seven Pillars Photo Shoot. One of my friends' moms is a really good photographer and as I perused her pictures on Facebook one day, I found this photo shoot she'd done with her daughter and the scenery was amazing. She said the pictures were taken at a place called Seven Pillars - which is just a county or two over from where I live. Are you kidding me? This place has been right here the whole time and I've never heard of it? This isn't her picture, but to give you an idea:
*picture from wanderingsol.comule.com*So....my livin' list idea is to pack up the car with my camera and Rachel Ashley (who appreciates these sorts of things as much as I do...) and head that way to do a photo shoot. Furthermore, I would like to go one time each season to get four seasonal pictures of this place and blow them up into ginormous prints to hang in my house and swap out with each season. (Okay, spring buds. Hurry up so I can start!)
3. Take a ride in the Conner Prairie Hot Air Balloon. Believe it or not...when I was five years old, I took a ride in a hot air balloon. Like a for real ride. In an honest-to-goodness non-tethered hot air balloon. That may have been the last time I jumped into adventure before I wised up to the knowledge that adventure can be scary. Lo, these many years later, I'm pondering adventure again.
If you're not from Indiana, you might not know about Conner Prairie. It's about an hour south of me and while I haven't been there since the fourth grade field trip, I remember it as a pretty cool place to visit. And now...they have a hot air balloon:
*picture from aroundindy.wordpress.com*This one is tethered and holds a lot more people (up to 20) than the wicker basket of the one I rode back in the day. But I think it would be so fun to go up in it and check out the view (which of course, translates to taking pictures) and return to earth in a more civilized fashion than skidding across a cornfield. (Yep. That was the landing site last time.)
So there you go. Uno, dos, and tres from my list. What's on your livin' list?
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