Tears are streaming down my face as I jot down nine special dreams that I hope and pray can all be crossed off of the list in this lifetime.

1. To rehab, and live in, a Tennessee farmhouse

2. To work on-staff as a magazine editor

3. To choreograph a one-act ballet

4. To write a novel

5. To live in San Francisco

6. To re-honeymoon in Ireland

7. To take my shirt off at a festival

8. To see my children’s children grow up

9. To experience the ripples of a single act of kindness that I have set in motion

Photo credits: 1. Tennessee Farm House, 2. Innocent Magazine – Letters to the Editor, 3. Enter stage, 4. I Wrote This Novel…, 5. San Francisco Houses, 6. Dublin, Ireland, 7. Hippy Hippy Shake°, 8. Three Generations of Nauerth-Curriden-Haynes Family, 9. Ripples