Lists

I love making lists! Not practical to do lists, but nice, cosy lists about wishes, dreams and activities.

One of the first lists I remember making, was when I was about 11 years old. The list was called: “Things I have to remember when I become a mother” It was from an 11 year olds perspective, so it would be really interesting to find this list now, but unfortunately I don’t know where it is. (But I do remember storing it in a box for the future, so it must be somewhere!) I do remember some of the points on the list though, and I remember the main points to be something related to seeing the child for who it is and respecting its view, and things like this. (It’s actually a Danish term from my education, which I don’t know how to translate into English)  

When I was around 17 me and some friends made a list called “Organic community in the south of England” I don’t really know why it was going to be in the south of England, as I have never been there, haha. But I remember we had seen some nice photos from there, which kind of caught our imagination. I remember that some of the ingredients of this list (and of this community) was that we were going to open a private kindergarten there, and do this for a living. And all the main activities in the kindergarten (and community/house) was going to be creative activities, like painting and modelling. We were also going to grow our own vegetables and be as self-sufficient as possible, and we were going to have a lot of pets too.

I think I was the only person who was serious about the reality- potential of this list, and who still think it is a quite nice idea…



(This photo is from another kind of ecovillage I once lived in. I went to this place every morning to get tomatoes and herbs for the food I was going to make. I really liked the mornings there. )

When I had problems with my appendix for a long time during my early twenties, without any diagnose, I was making a list pointing out things I wanted to do if I got well and the pain disappeared. Luckily it did, and the fun thing is that I found the list several years later, and noticed I had fulfilled all the things on the list. I don’t remember all of it now, but one of the things was that I wanted to go to some small place by the coast in Ireland, to learn the Irish language (Gaelic)



(This is where I went. Really nice place. I was there three times.)

          

At the moment I am making lists with ideas for Silas name celebration. Thats fun too. :-) More to come about this later.