A Million Dreams (Or Just A Hundred)

Here is my list of 100 dreams. There is no way this could comprehensively cover everything I want to do in my life because I always come up with more ideas, but this is the list at the moment. Some items are specific and detailed, others are more general because I’m simply thinking in that direction (i.e. “Visit Japan”). And as someone pointed out on a previous post, this list is not particularly spiritual. It is more about experiences I want to have for pleasure and joy. (It is mostly travel. So much for not loving travel. But I truly didn’t always.) I hope you enjoy! And please share some of your dreams with us! I believe in them!

1. Get married.
2. Have children – yes, I put both of these on the list although I considered leaving them off because obviously they are not like the others – but I just couldn’t.
3. Become a college professor, lecturer, or instructor (a position without research and writing pressure).
4. Have a private therapy practice.
5. Finish my PhD.
6. Write a self-help book.
7. Create an online course.
8. Write a newsletter.
9. Write a novel manuscript (it doesn’t have to be publishable, just have some sort of plot).
10. Publish an article in a legacy publication (NYT, WSJ, New Yorker etc.)
11. Create a dating game.
12. Give expressive writing classes.
13. Visit Fallingwater. 
14. See Niagara Falls (I know can you believe it).
15. Visit California (I have never been so I am just lumping it all together in one item, but yes, I know it’s a big state!)
16. See the Pacific Ocean.
17. Go to Disney World again.
18. Visit Santa Fe, and the Georgia O’Keefe Museum.
19. Visit the American Southwest – Sedona, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon…
20. Visit a mining ghost town.
21. See Mount Rushmore.
22. Take a fall trip to the Berkshires.
23. Visit the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts.
24. Go to the Crayola Experience again (I haven’t been in almost 30 years).
25. Visit the Art Institute of Chicago.
26. Visit Maine.
27. Visit Hawaii.
28. Visit other regions of the US (Route 66 road trip?).
29. Visit Prince Edward Island.
30. Visit St. Thomas, Virgin Islands (where my great-uncle lived after the war).
31. Visit big London museums: British Museum, British Library, National Portrait Gallery.
32. Visit Bath, England.
33. Visit Oxford, England.
34. Visit Great Dunmow, England, where my grandfather was evacuated to as a child during WWII.
35. Take an All Creatures Great and Small-themed tour of the Yorkshire Dales.
36. See the Yorkshire moor.
37. Visit the Lake Country in England.
38. Visit the Cotswolds, England.
39. Visit Cornwall, England.
40. Visit Scotland.
41. Visit Ireland.
42. Visit St. Peter Port in Guernsey.
43. Visit Musee d’Orsay in Paris.
44. Take a Normandy D-Day tour.
45. Visit Monet’s house and gardens in Giverny.
46. See lavender fields in Provence.
47. Visit the French Riviera. 
48. Visit Bruges, Belgium.
49. Visit Ypres, Belgium, and see the In Flanders Fields Museum and the Last Post ceremony.
50. Visit the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam.
51. See The Night Watch in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
52. Visit a tulip field in season in the Netherlands. 
53. Visit Kinderdijk, Netherlands.
54. Visit Neuschwanstein Castle.
55. Visit the Pinakothek in Munich like Betsy.
56. Visit Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany (“Vulgaria”).
57. Take a beautiful train ride through the Alps.
58. See the Golden Lane in Prague (I forgot!).
59. See Venice again.
60. Visit Southern Italy, such as Capri.
61. See the Alhambra in Granada, Spain.
62. Visit Santorini, Greece.
63. Visit Lapland, Finland, including a reindeer farm, seeing the Northern Lights, and a snowshoe expedition.
64. Visit Copenhagen, Denmark.
65. Visit the Metropol Hotel in Moscow (maybe not in this lifetime).
66. Visit St. Petersburg (see above).
67. Visit Morocco, including Casablanca and other places.
68. Do an African safari trip (Botswana, Victoria Falls, others).
69. Do a Nile River cruise.
70. Visit Japan.
71. Visit Agra, India to see the Taj Mahal.
72. Visit Antarctica.
73. Build a trip or another creative project around my grandmother‘s address book, which is filled with handwritten addresses from her contacts around the world and reads like the plot of a novel. 
74. Daven at the kever of the Bach (my ancestor) in Krakow.
75. See Riverdance.
76. See Swan Lake again
77. See another big ballet, possibly Sleeping Beauty.
78. See Phantom of the Opera again.
79. See Wicked.
80. Go to a Yankees game.
81. Learn how to ride a bike.
82. Learn how to roller skate.
83. Take ballroom dancing lessons.
84. Try Rent-the-Runway. 
85. Use my speaking voice in a project, possibly a podcast.
86. Join the board of a nonprofit. 
87. Become a trained museum volunteer guide.
88. Have an extended beach vacation (2-4 weeks).
89. Watch a horse race.
90. Have 40 adventures with loved ones the year approaching my 40th birthday (or 50 before 50th), as mentioned here.
91. Reread the Anne of Green Gables series.
92. Reread the Betsy-Tacy series.
93. Do the twelve weeks of The Artist’s Way.
94. Learn Nach Yomi (ah yes, a spiritual goal).
95. Pay down my student loans.
96. Get to net worth one million-plus.
97. Donate a library to a school or yeshiva.
98. Pay for groceries for a family in need.
99. Do 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten.
100. Volunteer in my kids’ school.

What are your dreams?

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