2013 Vision Boarding..

If you could cook up your life, what would it look like? 

Everyday I go in and outside of my life, through my work, through my relationship, through my commute, and through my doings and I wonder if this is what it´s all supposed to be. 

Of course, we all have these waves that we crest and float safely into sure, smoothly, on days that we feel loved and proud of our lives and our work.  And, we have agonizing ones for sure, that seem to take us forever to get into shore, swimming across currents instead of with them, getting sucked down by a huge wave and trying to fight your way out of it.  It´s nothing new and yet, at times, I wonder if I get worse or better at dealing with it all. 

If I could cook up my life, here´s what I imagine it would look like. 

I´d be in love with someone who makes me laugh when we are intimate, challenges my patience levels outside of the classroom, brings my lows to highs and smiles from ear to ear when my highs are on the horizon.  I´d have my life and he´d have his, but we´d meet in between for wondrous voyages and mouthwatering meals.   And to be honest, this is an area which I am comfortable with, but am still trying to challenge completely as well.  I want to be married to amazement and the only place I know I will find that initially is with me.  Making it with another person is a whole different ride in the park. 

I´d be in a job which I feel like I give to the world.  Check on 9/10 teaching posts so far..

But I´d also be in a job where I feel like I am creating.  Less on the artistic side but much more on the literacy/ technology side, I must keep moving forward and pushing those ideas through... Sometimes check... 

And a job where I could make a little bit of money to pursue bigger dreams or crazy ideas.  Negative check.

Finally, I´d be in a job where people take me seriously and respect my ideas, don´t patronize me and value my experience.  A veces, si, A veces, no....

Finally, my life in 2013 and what it would ideally look like.

My commute would be less than 20 minutes.

I would run at least 3 times a week and run a marathon. (in the cards friends)

I would play volleyball on the beach or court twice a week and actually play the whole time.

I would fulfill at least one of the crazy prophecies I have once a week. 

I would cook 3 times a week at home and maybe do the Barcelona Eat with Friends thing..

I would speak Spanish better than I do now.. 

I would break the 50 country mark.. 5 more to go and a couple hundred plus days to do it this year.. 

I would complete some version of "Before the end" project in Spain this year.

Here we go 2013.. Here´s to you, here´s to me and here´s to not only thinking but really doing.. 

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e. e. cummings