good wishes

• jump rope double-Dutch style
• visit every Caribbean island with a "Saint" in its name
• own a Mark Cross briefcase
• keep notebooks in every room of the house so I can jot down thoughts on the spot
• journey along the Silk Road from China to the Mediterranean
• have a monkey sit on my shoulder
• participate in a paint-gun "war"
• bring up my children to be independent
• do as in the Rubaiyat and picnic with "a loaf of bread beneath the bough, a flask of wine, a book of verse-and thou"
• discover and name a chemical element
• fill my Easter baskets with Godiva chocolate
• hear Silbo, the whistled language of the Canary Islanders
• shed my own culture and immerse myself totally in another
• become a state legislator