2019 Firsts and Milestones
Jan. 1st, 2020 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosA friend of mine has a practice of making a December post of the "10 New Things" she did this year. Inspired, I started keeping a list for my own review. I dedicate the first page of my bullet journals to tracking them, called "Firsts & Milestones). Here's my Firsts and Milestones list for 2019, in chronological order. (I'm not putting a number limit on it, because last year I made a real effort to stretch.)
1. First meeting of my Grail Fellowship group
2. Went to a friend's Chinese New Year party (First visit to his home and to attend that party.)
3. Visited the Museum of Pop Culture for the first time, in the good company of an old friend I hadn't spent much time with in years.
4. Went to the first meeting of Ar Var Alda, a group dedicated to close readings of the Eddas. I enjoyed the meeting, but the time and location really don't work well for me, so I didn't go back. But I went!
5. Personal retreat to Mt. Baker. First time to go someplace like that by myself. First time to actually go somewhere by myself for several days for a spiritual retreat, despite all the years of wanting to do so.
6. Sent out the Call for Submissions for the Monasticism Anthology I'm editing. I've done a CFS before, for the devotional anthology I edited almost a decade ago, so this isn't a first, but it's an important milestone.
7. Taught a workshop completely on my own initiative, without being sponsored by an established organization. (And made $120 from donations.)
8. Changed my last name
9. Had brunch with someone I had known in high school who just moved back into the area.
10. Went to the Drawdown meet-up, which I hope will enhance my ability to work to combat climate change. The next phase of that adventure starts next week.
11. Started re-learning Spanish with Duolingo. Currently on a 127 day streak -- unbroken since I started! (Which has been inspiring me to meditate on why I've been able to maintain that discipline when I haven't done as well with others.)
12. Saw orcas in the wild from the Mukilteo ferry.
13. Tall ship cruise! Bucket list item checked off, even if the day was almost completely calm. (But Amazon sailor Natalie made up for it.)
14. Joined Planet Fitness.
15. Had one of my Masonic essays printed in the Order's quarterly newsletter.
16. Took the "Interstitial Days" between Christmas and New Years as a contemplative vacation.
ETA: I forgot one! Being interviewed by a reporter from a big city newspaper, and then being quoted in the first paragraph of a front-page article.
ETA: I forgot one! Being interviewed by a reporter from a big city newspaper, and then being quoted in the first paragraph of a front-page article.
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