good wishes

• ignore Murphy's Law
• own a big-screen televison
• lose my tendency to blush
• give more than I'm asked for
• eliminate deer ticks and Lyme disease
• collect enough individual ceramic tiles to cover one wall of my kitchen
• choreograph a ballet
• taste blackberry cordial
• live in a place where the summer never comes
• collect quartz and display it in natural light
• know the names and dates of all the U.S. presidents-in order
• see the art of Holland
• operate a summer theater
• hold a family reunion and meet all my living relatives