100 Things Worth Doing, Part I

Memories that I hope flash before my eyes at the end of my life; one hundred moments, numbers one through twenty.

1. "Uncle" Bruce teaching me to tie my shoelaces.
2. Balloons floating on the surface of the pool at the house in Mexico on New Year's Day.
3. Slurpees with Claire after my high school graduation.
4. Spending a week in London on foot and mostly alone.
5. Yards of margaritas by the Luxor pool for my birthday.
6. Bargaining for rugs in Morrocco.
7. Slipping through the woods without flashlights to prank the boys at Testing Camp.
8. My first kiss.
9. Firebug & I driving back from Kawanhee along pitch-black roads in rural Maine.
10. Fireworks on the beach with Alex.
11. The monkeys on Gibraltar.
12. Being in the shop with my father, taking old clocks apart while he worked or puttered.
13. Nutcracker weekends.
14. The six of us standing together for the first time at my cousin's wedding in Las Vegas.
15. Meeting my cousins for the first time, 7 years apart.
16. Napping on the beach in Hawaii
17. The Northern Lights.
18. Playing a neighborhood-wide game of hide & seek that lasted most of a Saturday.
19. Playing Sorry with my parents on Sunday evenings during football season.
20. Facing Chief in the ring for the first time and feeling a rush of adrenaline as he put in his mouthguard.

Many thanks to Mighty Girl for the inpiration.