Swing Life Away...: #14 Go to a Protest for Something I Truly Believe In

6/04/2017

#14 Go to a Protest for Something I Truly Believe In

This past year has provided numerous opportunities for this. I have kind of become, well, experienced at this. Here are some pictures.

May Day 2016

The Third Annual San Fernando Valley PRIDE March (which was actually the second time I marched).

The Women's March

Supporting Our Muslim Neighbors After Travel Ban

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The List

My “buried” list  

1. Spend a week lying on a remote-ish tropical beach drinking delicious drinks and swimming in warm water.  

2. Visit Venice and eat real Italian food and gelato.  

~~3. Experience Mardi Gras in New Orleans.~~ (February 2012!) 

4. Sit in a Jacuzzi, in my backyard, sipping pink champagne, eating chocolate covered strawberries.

 5. Spend a summer in Romania with the orphans.

6. Learn to dance hip hop. 

7. Be in a stage version of Hair. 

8. Learn to surf.   

9. Be in a movie. 

10. ~~Write a recommendation letter for a student to go to an Ivy League school~~ (December 2010 Estefani & Cynthia, but neither got accepted)… and see him/her actually get accepted and attend (and ideally graduate)  

~~11. Bless another teacher with something really awesome.~~ (June 2011)  

12. Take a group of students to work with orphans in a 2nd or 3rd world country.

~~13. Get published in something real… like in print… not just on the internet~~. (April 2012 - Acorn Letter to the Editor)  

~~14. Go to a protest for something I truly believe in.~~  (2016 – 2017)

15. See Alaska in the summer, when it doesn’t get dark (and isn’t cold).

16. Direct Rent with a perfect cast and as much time and money as I need to make it perfect. 

~~17. Be in a Shakespeare play as a lead role.~~ (October 2016)

~~18. Make homemade tortillas.~~ ~~(June 2012)~~

~~19. Spend 2 hours floating happily in a lazy river.~~ (Summer 2015)

20. Cruise the Caribbean, stopping at several different islands.

21. Spend a week at Disney World at a nice resort, with a meal plan and everything, not having to worry about money while we are there.

22. Be on the Amazing Race.

23. Convince my mom and dad to go out of the United States, preferably on a mission trip. I would ideally like to come too, but will consider this one accomplished if they go without me.

24. Be in a Flash dance mob.

~~25. Grow enough vegetables to make a complete salad.~~ (Summer 2012)

26. Completely and totally surprise Marc with an unbelievable gift.

27. Go to the airport on a random Friday and take the first flight out on Southwest, no matter where it goes (like in Yes Man).

~~28. Camp in Encinitas for a week with a really awesome RV.~~ I am eliminating this one by choice.

29. Own a Jacuzzi.

30. Learn Spanish… like, fluently.

31. Tour Jerusalem.

32. Go to the Olympics (just to watch, hopefully to watch Marc)

~~33. Write a letter to the president and my congressmen about something that is really, really important to me.~~ Hopefully get a response. (It sucks that they did not respond, but they have not. Someday. Gotta keep writing).

~~34. Sit in a tropical waterfall (I have to say tropical, because I have done this in the mountains, but I want to do it in a warm one).~~ Road to Hana: October 2011

35. Drive across America, coast-to-coast, with the kids, stopping to see a ton of different things along the way.    (Halfway there 2016 summer, not all the way to the coast)

36. Go whitewater rafting through the Grand Canyon.  

37. Be in the pit at a Green Day concert.  

38. See a concentration camp in person.  

~~39. See Phantom of the Opera professionally (like on Broadway, but LA or Vegas would work)~~ January 2012!

~~40. See the Cirque de Soleil show “Love”~~ April 2011  

41. Go kayaking in the ocean.

42. Visit the Channel Islands.  

~~43. Hike a volcano.~~ (October 2011: Mt. Kilauea, Hawaii!) 

 44. See the Sistine Chapel ceiling.  

~~45. Speak at an educator’s conference.~~   (Marc 2013)

46. See Robin Williams do stand up comedy.  

47. Go tubing in Kauai  

48. Take my students on a totally awesome surprise field trip, probably funded by me.  

~~49. Share my faith with students at my public school campus, somehow without getting fired.~~ Spring 2011  

50. Plan a huge “thank you” banquet for youth pastors’ wives.  

51. See the Hollywood sign up close and personal  

52. Go to a foam party.  

~~53. Ride a mechanical bull.~~ November 19, 2011

 54. Try doing stand-up comedy in front of an audience. 

55. See the aurora borealis 

56. Visit India.

57. Zip line tour.

58. Rent a house on the beach for a summer. (This summer! July 2017)

59. Write my will.

60. Stay in one of those huts in Bora Bora or Tahiti or somewhere where the hut is actually IN the ocean.

61. Milk a cow.

~~62. Participate in a holi festival and throw colors.~~ March 2013

63. Cross the intersection at Abby Road. (Had the opportunity, probably won’t do this)

64. See a play in the Globe Theater in England. (Okay, visited, but didn’t see a play yet)

65. Le tour d'effiel.

66. Write a book. Get it published.

67. Have a BMI that is NOT overweight.

68. Walk through a real cornfield (like that people will actually eat, not one of those corn mazes) in the middle of nowhere. Preferably non-genetically modified corn.

69. Run a half marathon.

70. Meet Johnny Depp.

71. Have a meal (coffee would do) with Shawn Achor.

72. Go to a real TED conference.

73. Go on a murder mystery dinner cruise.

74. Take Tracy and the kids to all my favorite SoCal destinations.

75. Go wine tasting in a vineyard.

76. Do a real "spa day," with multiple treatments, preferably with friends.

77. Have a massage in a cabana on the beach.

78. Stay at the Grand Wailea, just for a night.

79. Give a flower to a stranger.

80. Slide on the slide rocks in Arizona.

81. See Niagra Falls.

82. Spend the night in Disneyland (one can dream)

~~83. Visit Stratford upon Avon.~~ (March 2016)

84. Put on an amazing production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged.

85. Teach at a university.

86. Get a standing ovation.

87. Learn to play "Good Riddance" on the guitar.

88. See the pyramids of Egypt.

89. Run for school board. Win.

~~90. See Vinny perform a solo for a real audience. (~~Ragtime, Fall 2016)

~~91. Commit a crime of civil disobedience for a really just cause.~~

92. Give my mom a truly amazing, truly unexpected present.

~~93. Become a composter.~~ (January 2016)

94. Dress up like a Disney princess. Like really, unmistakably. Go out in public.

95. Be able to see a Broadway show, open the program, point to a name, and say to the person next to me, "Yeah, I was his/her drama teacher."

~~96. Get invited to a former student's college graduation. (And actually go).~~ May 2016

97. Visit Kingston, Jamaica. Honor Mr. Robert Nesta Marley.

98. Adopt a child.

99. Coincidentally spot my sister in a background shot. (Like, without her telling me where to look).

100. Meet the President of the United States. (Edited: Not 45…. This one will have to wait).

101. Watch a Dodger game from a club suite.

102. Mud run.

~~103. Get back on stage....~~ (Wonka 2014—My post baby return to stage)

104. Ride in a blimp. Preferably the Goodyear blimp.

105. Swim in Mono Lake.

106. Swim with Dolphins. (Discovery Cove?)

~~107. Go to the Renaissance Faire with my entire family, all dressed up in renaissance costumes.~~ (April 2014)

108. Spend a month in language school in Costa Rica, learning Spanish.

109. Teach English in another country for a semester or a year.

110. Be completely debt free (no credit card debt, no student loan debt, no mortgage debt)

111. Dig a sand spa at hot water beach on the Coromandel peninsula in New Zealand.

112. Sit down to a meal (okay, coffee would do) with Joel Stein.

~~113. Neon run at night.~~ (August 2016)

114. Be one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People."

115. Walk through the ice tunnels in the Rhone Glacier.

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