bucket list

By way of writing something a little more cheerful. There will be no other time to write this week - four serious papers, two minor ones, teaching, and an Old English recitation to finish between now and Friday - but I have next to nothing due for two weeks after. Perhaps I'll be able to catch some of the thoughts that have been buzzing 'round for you. Still more optimistically, perhaps I'll have understood them by then. Prayers appreciated, my friends.

But for now - the current bucket list.

Publish something. (A scholarly article would be fine, a biography best.)

Learn to fly. (A plane.) And jump.

Run a marathon with Mom.

Ride an Amtrak. Overnight, if possible. (Silly, I know. There are childhood reasons.)

Walk through Robben Island, South Africa. (And a hundred other places, but this one is chief.)

Spelunking. With James, preferably.

Play an instrument on a street corner.

Never let the passport expire.

Speak a dying language. (And record it for the rest of the world.)

Speak an unreached language and translate the Word into it. (Become part of the kingdom come.)

Speak Spanish, French, Arabic, and Russian well enough to be able to share the gospel clearly. (Just think of how much of the world that is... :))

Raise multilingual kids. (Assuming the above happens quickly. And I marry someone who's multilingual, and...yeah. :D Lord willing!)

...oh, and so many other things...this is the silly list. Amusing to note just how much of it has to do with words...characteristic, no? :D

Suggestions welcomed. :)