to be fluent in SOMETHING!
to be fluent in SOMETHING!
cswimma
Female,
located in
Arlington, MA
Eons member since Jun 14, 2006
Looking Back
- find out why, and explain, why, when I was in Lousiana working this past fall and winter....I lost weight and got more fit...
- rediscover the motivating power of needing to work to eat (this shall roll around again)
- find an easy way to write a resume, or an old fashioned letter of introduction
- that is one of my favorite sayings
- see why I
- Not finding out, but still experiencing, for as long as possible, what it is like to have someone care about me- me...
- be able to talk to my son as he grows older, and I do, too
- see what it might be like to have grandchildren....this is entirely out of my hands....only if they grow up in a really...
- get my aunt her own place to live...with a garden... she is now 92 years old and has always rented.......
- make it to 100 (and feel like/that it was worth it!!!)
- find out where my first ancester landed on these shores and in Nova Scotia, why, and when, and see if there are any...
Looking Forward
- discover why helping others really does boost one
- conveying the message that people
- It wouldn
- Find out why, if 98% of the brain really isn
- Find out the secrets of an easy-to-use website, and be able to fix hard-to-use websites
- to be fluent in SOMETHING!
- to get rid of all paper clutter in my surroundings, find a method to dispose of easily
- letting younger people know, that finally developing a junk drawer (I didn
- put down anyone who says...use anything you find lying around the house......for a craft project
- envision what the baby-boomers will see as
- find out if there is one square inch literally, that hasn
- Discover how to think like a computer when I need/want to
- conflate need and want
- see if the gap between the haves and the have nots is widening, and if so, what can be done about it
- keep laughing at myself/ourselves, i.e., the $40.00 tomato...as a blow for self-sufficiency in the home-grown garden
- How about leaving some kind of LEGACY?
- How about reaching the mentoring stage of development (cue in on this, psychology majors)
- get a kick out of how being a hedonist as a teenager wasn
- find out what people mean by saying, if I knew then what I know now.....
- I have no clue what the above is supposed to mean...I don
- feel as beautiful as some older women look
- talk to some women
- contradict every writer who says that "this was, of course, very unusual at the time for a woman." Hey, those people
- Find out what ever happened to Kathy Whitmire and those ties. (see former Major of Houston, dress for success, etc.
- find out how many young women are taking their husband
- Find out why some proto-feminists thought that keeping their (given) last name was a hot ticket....it was just their father
- how many hyphenated names can one have? Find out how the English manage it....too complicated to find out how the Russians...
- Apologize to all the people in the doctor
- Find out HOW TO HAVE ENOUGH money, but not worry about it and have to manage it so much
- See if I could have a scientific breakthrough at an advanted age, or is it neurally impossible
- Find someone who would appreciate my thoughts- oh, I already have that, find more people who would appreciate my thoughts
- promote one of my friends as one of the funniest people alive
- believe that 50 really is the old 30
- Find out if existentialism- we make our own meaning- will be the credo, the article of faith of the new retired? the new non...
- Find out if more night-owls are beach-lovers than mountain-lovers, and if most mountain-lovers are early risers? Does it matter?
- Find out why sunsets are sad - though often beautiful
- Find a more comfortable way for olders to go camping
- Provide more comfort for older people in every activity
- Really promote that most people after a certain age really do learn differently, but this doesn
- See how long it would take to prepare delicious, fresh meals...without having to do it myself! the tyranny of the stomach!
- Really understand anyone who thinks that they have
- Find out what joy people really do get from pets
- Be able to have a pet without having allergies (that is, to dogs....maybe, but prob. not, cats)
- Re-read Alvin Tofler
- Find a new outlet for my creativity (long-stifled)
- Sail away from the coast and not see land- cross the ocean
- meet P.G. Wodehouse (or his spirit)
- go back to New Orleans
- go back to Mt. Rainer
- find out more about relatives I never knew, like my grandparents, some cousins uncles and aunts who pre-deceased me and my sibs
- no one can grant this goal- find out about the afterlife, if any...and what it feels like to die (but to come back, prob.)
- build a library room at the top of the house- it will have a view, the house is too small to fit the books that multiply
- Re-decorate and become an interior designer, and stop watching, and not doing HGTV !!!
- paint a masterpiece
- compose a masterpiece
- write a great poem
- write a book interviewing the Parents of babyboomers, what their expectations were, and how that differed from that of the...
- collect interviews for the above
- interest a publisher in the above
- interview children of the baby boomers who have now become parents (or who haven
- conceive a new idea in philosphy
- write up the above
- create, or find, my best job
- no more self-improvement
- adda chapter to the book re: parents of the baby-boomers....what happened to their kids in the late 1950s, subtitled...why...
- find the perfect rhythm to the day
- on a material level, what would it be like to have a swimming pool (endless waves) in my basement
- on a health level, how to exercise in everyday life, so don
- short-term goal: copy-edit, maybe creative copy, long-term goal...develop books with new ideas
- invent ways for older people to use internet WITHOUT hurting their hands from repetitive motion
- seek and find inventor for the above
- help the avove invention WORK and get into circulation
- find out why people value speed over quality
- find out why our generation blames our parents....did previous generations spend time on this other than only early in their...
- refind my excitement at philosophy lectures (I know this sounds boring, but it was the most exciting thing to debate ideas)....
- see if anyone else likes the line, "some people say the glass is half full or half empty, and by this one knows if someone...
- see how other people really do live
- find out if there is another reason to live in our times besides better medical care....
- find the author of What Color is Your Parachute and pound some sense into his intellect !!!
- find out if anyone really experiences childbirth as a really intense feeling, but not pain....
- See if Norman Mailer was right in that bloodshed is good for every generation...that is, each new generation needs it...
- find out why some women my age who became nurses were sometime bullys as youngsters....not quite Nurse Ratchet (sp?) but close
- find out how many people really believe in God
- find out why it seems, only people with money say it is not important...
- how to reconcile my victorian, puritan, irish (e-gads!) background with actually making a way in the world
- act without stage fright
- fulfill my potential- by getting a graft of part of someone else
- repair two bits of damage I have done to others- reconcile with one, undo the memory of the other in the other person
- find a way to tell those younger that sometimes, doing what is good for you really does make you feel good
