Thirty by thirty
A year has gone by since I started this blog. While I don’t yet have intentions to set for 2019, I have taken the opportunity of being closer to 30 than to 25 to sit down a make a mini-bucket list of what I want to accomplish before that next epoch: another decade ending and beginning with 0, the completion of a returning Saturn, the gray starting at the temples (probably). I don’t know if I’ll get to all of these, but it feels like the right time to set some goals now that I’m closing a chapter (grad school) of my life that is about as far out as I ever imagined my life would go. Onwards?
Live somewhere other than New York
Be unafraid to be tied up for pleasure
Create something tangible again - draw, paint, metalwork
Climb in another country
Do trapeze again
Take a cooking class
Live alone, at least for a while
Rescue a dog
Date multiple people at the same time without feeling guilty about it
Go out in a full face of make up on a day that’s not Halloween
Tell a story at Greetings from Queer Mountain
Have something published somewhere
Go on vacation for a month
Break someone’s heart
Learn to read tarot without a guidebook
Have a custom suit made for me
Learn how to make pasta by hand
Teach a class in something
Experiment with facial hair
Get rid of any clothes hanging on from high school or college
Write a song
Spend New Years in another country
Play through a video game without quitting
Ask for feedback more often; take the criticism as a gift
Be a better ally to marginalized groups
Learn to really drive stick before autonomous cars take over
Disconnect from the internet for a week or two
Go to a new continent
Host the perfect dinner party
Read a book in French without using Google Translate