good wishes

• pay my parents back
• learn to make baklava
• touch a great painting
• dream consistently pleasant dreams
• have an artist caricature each member of my family in a group portrait
• renew my wedding vows
• travel overseas on a diplomatic mission
• hear Sting in concert
• do an impersonation of Newt Gingrich
• see the glaciers of the Cascade Range
• star in a Broadway play
• have someone ask if I've lost weight
• become a firewatcher in a national forest
• design and sew my own clothes