Bucket List

I found a bucket list that I wrote 6 months ago... It's a little abstract. I don't know how I'll check some of them off. But it's a happy list.

• Write a book
• Make a favorite piece of clothing from scratch
• Finish a quilt
• Create a sculpture I'd like to display
• Win an award for teaching
• Watch God heal Graham
• Speak in front of an incredibly large group of people on behalf of God
• Visit beautiful places and have time to be thankful and in awe of Him
• Reach a point where I am not even a little embarrassed about my faith in God and his centrality in my life
• Fill a recipe book with delightful things Matt and I like

Additions:

- Grow our own vegetables and herbs

- Rid our diets of sugar and processed foods

- Make my own detergent and soaps 

- Watch less than half an hour of screens a day

Island

Marriage is like moving to a small island with another person. You can be visited and you can travel, but at the end of the day, you're alone with one person. At the end of the day, at the beginning of the day... probably in chunks in the middle of the day as well. You have jokes about building the house on the island and how ridiculous that was, but now it's done. You have jokes about the tide coming in and ruining the lawn, which is never funny, but it's a fact you decide to treat lightly. People can visit and tell you how nice the house on the lawn seems or how bizarre it seems. They're right, but they'll never experience how nice the house on the lawn is or how bizarre it is. Just you and the one person. The two of you get it. You take sort of a step away from everyone else and a step towards just the one person. You're both more isolated and more connected. That's what marriage is like. At the beginning, this is what you'll feel. I don't know about the middle or the end.