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Mark Morford's got an interesting take on the whole "1000 things to do before you die" schtick.
One of my favorite bits is this, towards the end...
"...in truth, you do not consist of what you've done or seen or eaten or even who you married or how much you make or what you drive or drink or suck. You are made up of far, far subtler stuff than that. At least, I hope you are. Aren't you?
"Therefore, I recommend a different sort of list, a more, shall we say, enigmatic catalogue of numinous experience. Let us now enjoy, for example, 1,000 places to touch your lover's skin with a long feather from the headdress of a shaman. One thousand ways to breathe so differently you begin to feel the serpent rise and wind her way up your spine and flick her tongue across your scalp. One thousand and one ways to abandon God and then invite her back in and buy her an absinthe."
Read the whole column, it's worth it!
One of my favorite bits is this, towards the end...
"...in truth, you do not consist of what you've done or seen or eaten or even who you married or how much you make or what you drive or drink or suck. You are made up of far, far subtler stuff than that. At least, I hope you are. Aren't you?
"Therefore, I recommend a different sort of list, a more, shall we say, enigmatic catalogue of numinous experience. Let us now enjoy, for example, 1,000 places to touch your lover's skin with a long feather from the headdress of a shaman. One thousand ways to breathe so differently you begin to feel the serpent rise and wind her way up your spine and flick her tongue across your scalp. One thousand and one ways to abandon God and then invite her back in and buy her an absinthe."
Read the whole column, it's worth it!
