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• Write every day
• Volunteer my time somewhere that has nothing to do with healthcare
• Learn to speak a second language
• Study philosophy
• Get at least one more degree
• Work on my Jon-poems and get them published
• Do a unit of clinical pastoral education, volunteer as a chaplain
• Do a re-write of my novel, Vivian’s Disorder
• Draw, paint, write poetry
• Make collages from old pictures
• Read a million, no a zillion, novels
• Get rid of things I don’t need
• Plant things in places that I don’t live
• Visit people I love
• Sell my home and make a new life in a new place where I can grow old manageably
• Retire and work part time for my son in Miami
• Spend a lot of time at the beach
• Live in a city I have never lived in before
• Visit Ireland and Italy
• Burn my journals
• Do something with my therapy tapes
• Open a cafe-bookstore
• Eat outdoors as often as possible
• Stargaze on clear nights
• Be ready for whatever is to come