10 Things To Do Before I Die

1:    Spend two weeks with all four of my children all in one place, somewhere warm and sunny on the ocean, enjoying new sights, sounds, smells, food, music and adventures - something special for the memory banks...

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Sarah

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Connor

2:   See, live, up close and personal, with my own two eyes, both the Aurora Borealis and the Aurora Australis

Aurora Australis

Aurora Borealis

3:   Spend all day at a spa, luxuriating in a head-to-toe treatment

4:       Go back to university, take only courses I am interested in and finish my degree

5:      I've walked on glass, next thing is to walk over burning coals

6:      Spend time in Venice, Istanbul and the Greek islands

 

7:     Have a face to face conversation with Oprah and Bill Gates about life, the universe and the meaning of it all!   (They might not like what I have to say!)

8:     Give away everything I own

9:    Meet a real live (friendly) alien in 3D!

 

10:   Start and run the Purple Dove Foundation to raise billions of dollars that'll be used to educate about and eradicate domestic violence and help those recovering and... 

• continue to raise my youngest prepared for the world to come;
• stand strong in my truth and faith;  
• keep planting seeds with no attachment to the outcome;   
• move through the rest of my life with an open heart, flowing with love, compassion, ease, dignity and grace:

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." - Rainer Maria Rilke

And in all of this, I ask that Thy Will, not my will, be done...