Listing and Other Nautical Fripperies

Ambition you say?  How long do you have?  I have ambitions coming out of my ears...

• See South America
• Write the soundtrack to something
• Watch Raven graduate from Trinity College, Dublin
• Be one with my piano
• Move people with art
• Spin yarns for children
• Open a cafe/bookshop/performance venue
• Direct a theatrical performance
• Sing Carmina Burana with a huge choir
• Dance in an organised fashion without hurting people
• Know spiritual fullness
• Engage in copious amounts of skylarking
• Perform Unconventional Attitudes at the National Maritime Museum
• Chew the fat with fascinating people
• Explore our history and remember some of it.

I'm working on achieving some of these ambitions.  It's good to have a list though isn't it?  I've always written my ambitions down on lists.  They are usually fairly short - I write 5 of my top current ambitions down and put the list somewhere safe.  I leave it there for a few years and then go back to see how many I managed to achieve.  I must be incredibly fortunate as I have, so far, achieved most of what I desired.  That's what lists are good for isn't it?  They remind you, not just of what you have to do but what you have already done.  There's real comfort in a list.

The first exhibition of 2013 at the Grundy Art Gallery will include two collaborative elements.  One involves fabric, the other sound.  Both ideas excite me.  Until I read the flyers for the exhibition I didn't have 'be part of a major art exhibition' on my list but you can be sure it's going on there now.  Why not add it to your list too?

And while we're on the subject, please share your lists with me!  I love to know what other people are up to (read: nosy sod) and I may just steal an idea or two.