Summer 2010 To-Do-List

-make an altered book

(pages from an altered book I did this Spring)

-read a book (or more than 1)

-finish reading the New Testament

-learn more piano chords

-memorize how to play songs on guitar and piano

-dance

-write a song

-take pictures one whole day, wherever I go

-listen completely to at least 1 conversation, no distractions

-have a sleepover

-knit a headband

-blog at least once, every 2 weeks

So this seems like quite the list, especially with only a couple months of summer left. Maybe it will become a year-long list :) I would be happy even if I did just one of these on my list. I think making lists helps me get motivated to do something. It helps push me to try something new and fun and hopefully get something out of the process.

Yesterday was the 4th of July. We had some visiting family over for fireworks. Some of us cousins got an old blanket and laid out under the stars. It was so beautiful. The stars were so brilliant, they looked close enough to grasp. I don't remember the last time the stars shone so bright, or the last time I even took the time to enjoy their beauty and mystery. It's really strange how some stars that we see today don't even exist anymore, it's just their light that we see. how sad that not everybody can enjoy the stars like I can. One of those advantages to living in the country, I suppose.

I should go outside more often.

And get lost in the stars.