• ✔ adopt a pet.
  • vuschel ("cold potato soup")
    • 14 june 2012 – 06 june 2013
• attend a film festival.
• ✔ attend a music festival.
  • bonnaroo 2010
• ✔ attend a political rally or protest.
• attend a renaissance faire.
• attend a stand-up comedy performance.
• build a gingerbread house from scratch.
• build a house of cards.
• build a sandcastle.
• build a snowman.
• build, and fly, a kite.
• ✔ carve a pumpkin.
• complete list of books to read.
• complete list of films to see.
• complete list of foods to taste.

NOVELS

• alexie, sherman ▸ the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian
• angelou, maya ▸ i know why the caged bird sings
• camus, albert ▸ the stranger
• díaz, junot ▸ the brief wondrous life of oscar wao
• ellison, ralph ▸ invisible man
• eugenides, jeffrey ▸ middlesex
• fitch, janet ▸ white oleander
• flynn, gillian ▸ gone girl
• hawthorne, nathaniel ▸ the scarlet letter
• huxley, aldous ▸ brave new world
• kundera, milan ▸ the unbearable lightness of being
• lee, harper ▸ go set a watchman
• lee, harper ▸ to kill a mockingbird
• martel, yann ▸ life of pi
• marquez, gabriel garcia ▸ love in the time of cholera
• marquez, gabriel garcia ▸ one hundred years of solitude
• orwell, george ▸ 1984
• shelley, mary ▸ frankenstein
• smith, betty ▸ a tree grows in brooklyn

artists

• jennifer ament
• asja boros

• ale-8-one (a ginger citrus soda)
• bluegrass (the scent, the sight, the sound)
• downtown frankfort
  • the brick pavement of st. clair mall
• fireflies
• my family & friends
• recognising familiar faces in public places
• southern drawl; southern twang
• sticky, sultry summer evenings
• thai smile's chicken pad thai
• the singing bridge (her hollow hum)
• tobacco farms & secondhand smoke
• undulating hills
• winter mornings: dead leaves, grey skies, and the acrid scent of sour mash

• art · literature · music
• cleanliness
• communication
• creativity
• empathy
• expression
• feminism
• generosity
• gratitude
• healing
• humanism
• kindness
• metaphysics
• organization
• progress (personal)
• progress (sociopolitical)
• stability
• support
• understanding

❝❞ 12/14/2017 to 01/14/2018 · “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”

• The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 4 (1971)

❝❞ 01/14/2018 to 02/16/2018 · – Les hommes ont oublié cette vérité, dit le renard. Mais tu ne dois pas l’oublier. Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé. Tu es responsable de ta rose…

“'People have forgotten this truth,' the fox said. 'But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.'”