The Stuff of Dreams: Top 5 Things on My Do-Before-I-Die List

I was reading in HOW Magazine about this German illustrator who took two trips around the world while still maintaining enough freelance work to pay his bills. He achieved it all with technology and wifi spots previously mapped out (on the second trip he bought a satellite phone).

So his pursuit of his dream sparked my own daydreams — and these aren't things like get married and have kids, which I do want. These are top five things I'd like to do before I kick the proverbial bucket:

1. Buy a second (or even first) home in France or Spain. Je parle le français and un poco de español. I've always wanted to be intercontinental, and if I save aggressively enough, this is achievable. Ahhhhhh, saving, what a dream.


2. Starting a theater movement. I don't know what it is yet, but I feel it coming. Something is bubbling in the underground.


3. Traveling the world — though I accept my limitations, and I'm more of the Holly Go Lightly "traveling" type than the camping girl type.


4. Launching a print magazine. I know, I know, everybody says print is dead, but I happen to like it. There's something about the energy of the paper and clipping articles. I'm torn between a literary magazine, which I'm thisclose to doing or a fashion rag. Maybe I'll combine the two: pretty and smart people or pretty, smart people.


5. Speak seven languages. I know this seems like quite a bit to chew off, but I didn't say fluently. I'm not about perfection; I'm about communication. Besides, I don't plan to croak before 70 years old, so I've got quite a few years. And I'm working on a method ... more about that later.

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The Stuff of Dreams: Top 5 Things on My Do-Before-I-Die List