What are your dreams?

New Year's Resolution 2008:
To continue achieving dreams, no matter how big or small they are, no matter how long ago I dreamed them.

An incomplete list of dreams:

Childhood dreams:

1. Go to Paris, specifically the Eiffel Tower.
2. Learn to speak French.
3. To live by myself in a fabulous place.
   
4. Be an artist, writer, photographer, psychologist and/or fashion model.
   

Teen age dreams:

1. Live in Chicago.
2. Live in New York.
3. Build schools in Africa.
4. Go to college.
5. Become a zoologist and specialize in the study of birds of prey.
6. Feed homeless teenagers fresh fruit right on the streets, specifically those living in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
   
7. Follow the Grateful Dead forever.
   

Grown up dreams:

1. Run a preschool.
2. Open a coffee shop and liberal/eco agenda retail spot.
3. Live in an urban area with everything I need/want at the tip of my fingers.
4. Write children's books.
5. Have an art showing.
6. Do meaningful, significant, systematic human rights work.
7. Work in Africa, probably a south central country, for a period of at least 1 month, maybe longer, maybe much longer.
8. Have a closer relationship with my parents and brother.
9. Be in excellent physical condition.
10. Learn to really love a greater variety of foods, especially vegetables.
    
11. Get a master's degree.
12. Make sure my kids know how much I love them and that they deserve the best in life.
    
13. Stay married to Adam forever.
    

Someday dreams:

1. See my children all grow into happy, healthy, and industrious adults.
2. Visit every major city in the world.
3. Be actively involved in or employed in city government.
4. Live overseas for at least a year.
5. Join the peace corps.
6. Get a P.h.d.
7. To keep dreaming up new ideas forever and ever.