good wishes

• continue my education-for the rest of my life
• find inspiration in a work of art
• roll up the rugs and dance
• plant a garden full of four-leaf clovers
• build my own wooden canoe
• winter in Oaxaca, Mexico
• be a bicycle messenger in a big city
• live in a converted church and dine in what was once the chancel
• set foot on the Ho Chi Minh Trail
• kayak over the Grand
• hold more assets than liabilities
• skate in the Ice Capades
• rent an entire restaurant for my 50th birthday party-preferably a restaurant in Paris
• watch the pelicans in San Francisco Bay