Achievements

This page lives as an ever-expanding companion to my INTENTIONS page. Here, I document my accomplishments prior to 2010 as well as any future remarkable ones I complete which I had no conscious intention of doing. This is an on-going exercise in fully owning my life and my self by consciously counteracting my tendency to forget, discard or dismiss the good, pleasurable and, frankly, awesome things in my life.

  • Went sky diving.
  • Excavated foundations of the Stoa at which Aristotle taught.
  • Made a quilt.
  • Got lost on an Irish country road, kissed the Blarney Stone and drank Guinness in Dublin.
  • Wrote an episode of television and then watched it air on prime time.
  • Sunbathed topless.
  • Lived in Greece for a year.
  • Gave blood.
  • Attended a rodeo.
  • Learned to play an instrument.
  • Flew a plane.
  • Lived in Brazil for a year.
  • Joined a book club.
  • Watched a movie in a cemetery.
  • Dyed my hair pink.
  • Lived in Czech Republic for two years.
  • Learned how to surf.
  • Walked the Great Wall of China.
  • Hiked among elephant seals in Northern California.
  • Got drenched by Iguacu Falls.
  • Learned Portuguese.
  • Learned French.
  • Lived in Germany for two years.
  • Walked around the crown of the Statue of Liberty.
  • Ate Haggis.
  • Walked around Stonehenge.
  • Spent an afternoon in front of Michaelangelo’s David.
  • Honored the dead at Auschwitz.
  • Visited the Sistine Chapel.
  • Hitchhiked through Europe.
  • Got Lasix.
  • Participated in the Revlon Breast Cancer Awareness walk on Mothers’ Day.
  • Started a blog.
  • Joined SAG and WGA.
  • Skied the Rockies.
  • Spent Christmas in an Islamic country.
  • Acted in a film and saw my credits on the big screen.
  • Went to the California Poppy Reserve.
  • Learned silversmithing.
  • Learned to throw a pot.
  • Visited Tibet.
  • Got a college degree.
  • Learned how to drive a stick shift.
  • Descended via rope into a 2ft. well 13 stories deep.
  • Went white water rafting on a flooded river.
  • Visited Yellowstone, Bryce, Zion, Mesa Verde, Grand Canyon, and Grand Tetons National Parks.
  • Went snorkeling in an exotic locale.
  • Walked around Borobudur.
  • Visited a shrine in Bali.
  • Read Kundera, Klima and Kafka while sitting on Charles Bridge.
  • Saw the Terracota Warriors in situ.
  • Visited a giant panda sanctuary.
  • Ate Swiss chocolate in Switzerland.
  • Walked along both sides of the Seine.
  • Ran through a vineyard in France.
  • Tossed a coin in the Trevi Fountain.
  • Visited Christo.
  • Rode a trolley in San Francisco.
  • Wandered through the ancient redwoods.
  • Went off-roading in Hawaii.
  • Saw a Komodo Dragon in the wild.
  • Attended a Broadway show.
  • Worked on a film and a TV set.
  • Heard Ornette Coleman improvise live.
  • Drank absinthe.
  • Cliff jumped in Crete.
  • Took cooking classes.
  • Paddle boated across a pond.
  • Started a theatre company and produced a full, successful season of plays.
  • Ice skated backwards without killing anyone.
  • Took a ride on a high-speed train and a steam-engined locomotive.
  • Perused the corridors of LACMA, Met, Louvre, Getty, Norton Simon, Prado, Tuilleries, Tate, Smithsonian museums.
  • Saw an alligator in the Everglades.
  • Attended a pow-wow.
  • Fired a gun and shot a bow and arrow.
  • Swam a race.
  • Performed a synchronized swimming routine.
  • Went night fishing.
  • Watched a movie at a drive-in.
  • Got stoned.
  • Watched Barishnakov dance the Nutcracker Suite live.
  • Completed The Artist’s Way.
  • Created a mosaic.
  • Spent a weekend in Napa with friends.
  • Played Black Jack in Vegas.
  • Sang in a choir.
  • Rode on the back of a handsome stranger’s motorcycle.
  • Visited Jim Morrison’s grave.
  • Found my way through a corn maze.
  • Slid down a sand dune.

Yippee – you’ve survived the list! If you’re jonzing for more, hop over to learn about my intentions. I hope both pages serve as inspiration to you – to acknowledge what is remarkable in your own life and to invigorate you to expand your expectations of what is possible and what is doable. I promise I’ll get around to confiding the stories behind the experiences listed above. In the meantime, please share with me your own list of achievements, if you wish.

xo