So the world was supposed to end last week. A friend of mine posted her top-ten end-of-the-world list. I am a little late to the game, but I still want to play.
If I could only...
10. Read one last book: I probably wouldn't want to sit around reading. But if I'd have fair warning, I'd sit down with an old friend like Jane Eyre.
9. Watch one last movie: I’d watch the most painfully beautiful movie I've ever seen, La Vita e Bella. But then I'd feel depressed, and I'd watch UHF.
8. Eat one last meal: There would have to be courses. First course: a nice spring salad with roasted beets and pine nuts. Second course: grapefruit broiled with brown sugar and served with berries. Main course: Grilled cheese made with crunchy artisanal white bread with cheddar and muenster. One half would have just cheese. The other half would have bacon and avocado. Dessert: flourless chocolate cake with raspberry compote.
7. Visit one last place: Kauai. I'd sit in the shade on Hideaway's beach and eat a rainbow shave ice at Wishing Well and hike along the spine of the craggy mountains and kayak down quiet rivers.
6. Savor one last poem: I'd read the The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot and go about with my trousers rolled.
5. Experience one last rush: I'd go hot-air ballooning over the colors of New England in the fall. Or maybe I'd go zip-lining in Kauai. Or maybe I'd go hang-gliding in Rio. Depends on how adventurous I'm feeling that day.
4. Smell one last scent: I'd smell the lilacs in springtime in the arbor of Colorado State.
3. Right one last wrong: I can't think of one for this. I don't know if this is a good thing or bad thing. But I would tell all my family and friends how much I love them and what they mean to me.
2. Feel one last touch: I'd have Allie fall asleep on my chest.
1. Relive one last memory: This one is too hard, so I will change it to "Create one last memory." I'd go on safari in Kenya or Tanzania with Michael, one of my life's dreams.
What about you—what would your final top 10 look like?
5 comments:
I love Jane Eyre!
10. I would read Unshaken by woolley because it would remind me that God is always watching and protecting me.
9. I would watch Soul Surfer.
8. I have no idea! Maybe something exotic.
7. I would visit Hawaii instead of my sponsored children because I know I will see them in heaven.
6. Totally like whatever, you know? by Taylor Mali
5. I'd go scuba diving. If a shark ate me, it would be no big deal then ;)
4. You know the smell of baby? Like when they are little still and they just smell so good. Maybe I am strange....
3. I would spend more time with my little sis.
2. Can I steal yours? To have Evie sleep in my arms is the most peaceful thing ever.
1. I would relive meeting my penpal from out of state.
This is so fun and thought-provoking!
Good list! I'd stop by and visit my sponsored girl in Tanzania on my way to safari. :) I'm afraid in "real life" she's going to grow up and graduate before I get the funds to go to Tanzania!
thanks! I guess I could loop around the globe on my way to Hawaii and have a layover near each of my kids! lol
Very few appreciate the humor of a classic like UHF. Glad you do.
Trevor
Trevor, a good friend gave me a gift of a spatula engraved with "Spatula City" as a wedding gift. It's still the only spatula I use.
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