Easter 2010. My second holiday away from Home. It's safe to say I celebrated Easter a bit differently this year. There was no Easter egg hunt. I went to Easter Vigil at the Cathedral instead of morning Mass at Holy Cross or St. Thomas. There were 6 people at Easter dinner and I tied for second youngest. And, I started off the day at Mt. Rushmore with a Sunrise Service. Why did I decide to wake up early and leave my house at 6am for a service that it turned out could be described as "interesting" at best, and "offensive" at worse? The real question is, why not? As I said, the service was a bit bizarre. The 116 member drum corps was awesome, but their music was more downtown street performance or football halftime show than Easter inspiration. The sermon was given by a man in jeans and a cowboy hat. The topic? The magic of the Resurrection. He began by talking of how some of the magic has been lost in a culture which values the material, and on this we agree. I was lost however as soon as Islam was mentioned as one of the evils of postmodernism. You mean you haven't heard? News just in, we've all been deceived, Islam is not a 1400 year old religion, in fact it has only existed post-1980.... yeah, right.
What is my point with all of this? My point is why not? As much as I disagreed with (parts) of the sermon being delivered it led me to think, why not try something new? While at Mt. Rushmore I spied the adorable patchwork bag a woman two rows in front of me carried and thought, "I wish I could make something like that." But, having slightly tuned out the sermon, I thought some more and realized, I can. Not to say I could sit down this afternoon and whip up a purse before dinner, but what is stopping me from learning? And so I begin the fruit of this question. A quest to establish goals and work to reach them. A list just over 100 things long, things to do, accomplish, learn. Not to do before I die, or accomplish before I turn 30. Simply a list of things to do in the next year. Things to accomplish before May 31, 2011.
And what can you do? Peruse the list. (Click on this link, or where it says "101 Things" at the top of the page below the quote). Make your own. Choose one of my goals and decide you too want to accomplish it. Check up on me, hold me accountable. Most importantly step back and ask yourself the same question which led me here - What is stopping you?
What is my point with all of this? My point is why not? As much as I disagreed with (parts) of the sermon being delivered it led me to think, why not try something new? While at Mt. Rushmore I spied the adorable patchwork bag a woman two rows in front of me carried and thought, "I wish I could make something like that." But, having slightly tuned out the sermon, I thought some more and realized, I can. Not to say I could sit down this afternoon and whip up a purse before dinner, but what is stopping me from learning? And so I begin the fruit of this question. A quest to establish goals and work to reach them. A list just over 100 things long, things to do, accomplish, learn. Not to do before I die, or accomplish before I turn 30. Simply a list of things to do in the next year. Things to accomplish before May 31, 2011.
And what can you do? Peruse the list. (Click on this link, or where it says "101 Things" at the top of the page below the quote). Make your own. Choose one of my goals and decide you too want to accomplish it. Check up on me, hold me accountable. Most importantly step back and ask yourself the same question which led me here - What is stopping you?
