My need to simplify has been mostly regarding our home and the stuff in it, but it’s also affected my blogging. I went from two blogs (plus domains) I was paying for to this one that is free. I’m getting rid of Flickr and I no longer have myspace or facebook or anything else. (I don’t think… things sometimes crop up that I’ve forgotten about but I want to now just post everything to this new little blog).
Remember how Andrea called me from her trip and announced she WAS GOING to live by the ocean when she got older? A couple days later I was reading an article that mentioned the children’s book Miss Rumphius, in which a little girl decides when she grows up she will do 3 things: travel to faraway places, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful. It reminded me so much of Andrea that I bought it to give her when she got home.
After reading I realized it was just as much for me.
I looked up my old “life list” I’d written years ago (or “bucket list” as people call them now). I had 153 items on that list. How did Miss Rumphius have only three? And how did her three things seem more complete than my hundred fifty-three?
So I streamlined my list down to seven (being charmed by Miss Rumphius’ desire to make the world more beautiful, I had to add that):
- travel as much as is possible
- work at making and keeping true friends
- remember God
- be a good mother
- stay in love with my husband
- live in a quaint small town
- and do something to make the world more beautiful
Sounds simple…
(what? I thought I commented on this post yesterday?)
I love your list. That’s almost exactly what my list would like if I had one. Only what’s with this making and keeping true friends? What am I? Chopped liver? (ha!)
Well you’re under the “keeping” part for sure! Maybe I worded it wrong… I probably should’ve said “being” a true friend. Something about working on friendships, as I haven’t done the best job of that in the past.