Things I might like to do
if/when I have the time
and/or money
and/or kids that are older and less dependent on me:

–go on pilgrimage to Iona next summer with members of the church, rather than just being the staff person doing the legwork at this point
–Spanish-language immersion in Guatemala for 2-3 weeks
–MFA in writing at Seattle Pacific University (with residencies in Santa Fe) or Warren Wilson College (Asheville)
–spend a week at the John Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, learning dance, stained glass, or blacksmithing
–go to New York and view a taping of the Daily Show or the Reporrr
–find a DMin program in which I can focus on something totally cool and fun and that involves no annoying “hoops” whatsoever
–get really good season tickets to some community theater
–retrace dad’s perimeter ride around Texas and write a memoir piece about the experience and reflections on our rather complex relationship
–get this piece on motherhood/ministry “done”
–finally “get” the gardening thing
–finally get a handle on barre chords on the guitar
–do that raft trip down the Colorado River that jo(e) did last summer
–run a marathon, climb Long’s Peak in Colorado, or at least get buff enough to be able to do either
–go back to Hawaii
–go off the grid/build a straw bale house and be hippy pastor out in the boonies somewhere

Things I am planning to do, in no particular order:
–see Spamalot with R on Sunday, thanks to MaDear’s generosity and kid-sitting prowess
–go on vacation with the family in Maine in two weeks
–book time (an hour or two a day) during that trip in which to write and/or read, completely undisturbed by suckling baby and chatty child
–go somewhere relaxing in 2007 with my clergy group and our spouses
–join a brand-new writer’s group that’s forming with some clergywomen in the area; we’ve been e-mailing over the last day or so and the energy is crackling!
–write a few articles for a new 12-volume lectionary commentary that’s in progress
–continue to green-up our lives in small ways
–write a sermon for Sunday
–help R finish the deck
–go to bed in about 10 minutes.