good wishes

• play in a bell choir
• ascend the Porcelain Tower of Nanking
• make weatherproof bricks for a patio
• sing in cabarets
• be invited to the Iowa Writers' Workshop
• participate in a videoconference
• be a trader at the stock exchange
• indulge my passion for expensive cologne
• go to a sherry-tasting in Jerez, Spain, where sherry originated
• win respect for who I am, not for what I've done
• defy fate
• grow my hair down to my waist
• master one thing completely and consummately
• be the only visitor in the Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.