Dreams

I made this list a few years ago. The prompt to write down a hundred dreams was from a writing book by Julia Cameron called The Right to Write. A few of these I have done. Many of these I will never do, It is nice to dream, though, isn’t it? Maybe make your own one-hundred dreams list.

1. Write a novel
2. Own a bookshop
3. Set up a charity
4. Visit New Zealand
5. Visit South America
6. Set up a writing school
7. Take the children to Disney World
8. Ride on a jet ski
9. See the Northern Lights
10. Ride on a dog sled
11. Own a cabin in the woods by a lake
12. Get a Masters in Creative Writing
13. Visit Iceland
14. Write a book about having a baby
15. Set up an alternative NCT course
16. Find a job I love
17. Take the family to Austin, Texas to research by novel
18. Go to a festival with the family
19. Establish a morning routine that I can stick to
20. Get fit and strong
21. Know my worth
22. Read more books
23. Journal regularly
24. Decorate the house
25. Visit Japan to see the cherry blossoms
26. Visit New England in the fall
27. Visit the Pacific North West including Portland for all the bookshops!
28. Find my style
29. Visit Tahiti
30. Qualify as a Life Coach or some sort of counsellor
31. Run lessons for kids not in mainstream education
32. Live in the countryside
33. Watch a play at the Globe
34. Get a dog
35. Take the children to Disneyland in California
36. See Hamilton
37. Attend a literary festival
38. Buy a book in Shakespeare & Co. bookshop in Paris
39. Watch roller derby
40. Holiday on a ranch
41. Go to Comic-Con in San Diego
42. Go on the London Eye
43. Organise all the kids artwork / school work
44. Make a quilt with Evelina
45. Convert the garage
46. Have singing lessons
47. Join an Am Dram group
48. Create a book of wisdom for the kids
49. Submit writing to a journal or magazine
50. Do a TED talk
51. Establish healthy habits that stick
52. Visit Prague
53. Visit Copenhagen
54. Visit Sweden
55. Go on a cruise near Alaska
56. Re-read Jane Austen’s novels
57. Send the kids to university if they want to go
58. Visit York
59. Own a Tiffany’s necklace
60. Take the kids to Italy
61. Work with children
62. Bake a loaf of bread from scratch
63. Happy fulfilled lives for the children
64. And for us
65. See a music concert with the kids
66. Visit Nashville
67. Tour Canada in an RV
68. Fly a plane
69. Do a tandem skydive
70. Run a 5K
71. Create family yearbooks for 2019-2022
72. Make my wedding scrapbook
73. Watch a play on Broadway
74. Renew our wedding vows somewhere romantic
75. Write a children’s book
76. Go on a residential writer’s retreat
77. Own a horse
78. Go in a hot air balloon
79. Take piano lessons again
80. Change my job
81. Paint a mural
82. Visit India
83. Go on safari in Africa
84. Go on a spiritual quest
85. Go on a hike in the Hollywood Hills
86. Visit Yosemite National Park
87. Go to Lapland with the kids
88. Go to space
89. Ride on a motorbike
90. Take a course in Psychology
91. See a therapist
92. Have our own swimming pool
93. Live abroad for a while
94. Edit books for a living
95. Learn to speak Italian or Spanish properly
96. Visit some Scottish Islands
97. Go wine tasting in Napa Valley and visit Soledad
98. Go on a winter holiday so I can read and write all day while everyone else skis/snowboards etc.
99. Go on a weekly artist’s date.
100. Love myself more.