Postcards from the Imagination

...that W.B. Yeats believed in ESP? I don't, but I'm taking on C. Dale's meme nonetheless.

Seven Things I Want to Do Before I Die

1. See my daughter engaged in a fulfilling life's work.
2. Live in Paris for at least a few months.
3. See the rest of Europe.
4. Write one important poem--i.e. a poem which no one else could have written, and which fulfills some widespread emotional, intellectual, spiritual, cultural and/or aesthetic craving.
5. Learn to speak a foreign language fluently.
6. Host a contemporary version of the literary salon.
7. Quit smoking.

Seven Things I Can Do

1. Listen well.
2. Start a literary journal from scratch.
3. Remain calm in an emergency.
4. Cook a fantastic meal.
5. Turn over a new leaf.
6. Fix things.
7. [censored for adult content]

Seven Things I Cannot Do

1. Mental arithmetic.
2. Stand on my hands.
3. Sing.
4. Be on time for anything without great effort.
5. Skimp on sleep.
6. Remember names and dates.
7. Fit into the size I wore when I was 20.

Seven Things That Attract Me to the Same/Opposite Sex

1. A great sense of humor
2. Intelligence
3. Eloquence
4. Warm-heartedness
5. Openness of mind, heart, and spirit
6. Easiness
7. Pheromones

Seven Celebrity Crushes (some current, some long-since expired)

1. Seth Abramson
2. Liam Neeson
3. Richard Gere
4. Asia Carrera
5. Dave Matthews
6. Catherine Zeta Jones
7. Jude Law