I"m putting the final 18 all in one list...Be prepared.
- Explore your inner pagan by creating your own seasonal rituals:
- At the spring equinox, detox with a juice fast, sauna, and deep muscle massage. (I could definitely do this. March will become the cleansing month.)
- At the summer solstice, hire a manicurist to give pedicures to you and four friends while your pampered klatch sips mint juleps. (Look out June...there's going to be some fancy feet and liquor flowing.)
- At the fall equinox, organize a black-clad, beatnik poetry reading with the themes of rain, dissolution, and romance. (Who will join me come September?)
- At the winter solstice, plant a circle of globed candles in a snowdrift and make wishes every night until they burn out. (Looks like there will be a trip to colder climes come December.... Anybody want to join?)
- Do Stevie Nicks on karaoke - sober. (Well, I sang Olivia Newton John on karaoke not sober and I sing Stevie Nicks sober in the car....why not mesh the two together...)
- Read James Joyce to telemarketers. (Oh how I would love to do this....if only I didn't want to just get off the phone as quickly as possible.)
- Stick your nose where it doesn't belong to stop child or animal abuse. (This would take some cajones, but I think I would do it.)
- Eschew a job for a career. (I've tried to to this...not very successfully.)
- Eschew a career for a job. (I'm working on this one.)
- Buy one significant piece of original art. (Do I have to buy it? Can't I make it?)
- Kiss a girl. (If you are talking kiss as in "kiss", I'll pass. It just doesn't interest me.)
- Lead a protest or commit an act of civil disobedience. (Who am I? Walt Whitman?)
- Forgive the unforgivable. (It is not my place to pass judgement on any living creature. All I can promise is that I will work to forgive wrongs done against me.)
- Embrace change. (Every day. All day. If we aren't changing and growing and accepting and embracing the changes within and around us, then we are dead.)
- Drop cable to spend the money on a $50 bottle of champagne each month. (Heck, I'm dropping cable just to not have that in my life any longer and to have that time that I waste in front of the television back to focus on other things like reading and quilting and becoming me....the extra money is just a bonus and who knows champagne may be involved.)
- Abandon self-doubt. (So very hard to do, but worth the work and I am working it.)
- Give birth to your heart's deepest desire and develop postnatal amnesia about the pain so you can do it again. (Since I haven't had children, and will not be having children, I don't know what that pain feels like. However, with the creation of anything there is some pain anyway and at this point in time I am willing to face that pain and embrace it....as soon as I figure out what my heart's deepest desire actually is.)
That is all of the things that a woman supposedly should do. Thoughts?
2 comments:
18?!
I'm in for March and June for sure ;)
champagne...... ah champagne
Yeah, I did Stevie nicks!!!
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