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Carpe Diem


Meet Maya Angelou

(scribed in the Carpe Diem chapter because it seemed like a good idea at the time)

I’m playing Carpe Diem catch up.1

I don’t really have much to add to this one. She’s simply amazing on so many levels.4

It would be an honor.

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Meet Cameron Crowe

(scribed in the Carpe Diem chapter because it seemed like a good idea at the time)

I’m playing Carpe Diem catch up.1

I really don’t remember why I added Cameron Crowe to my list. (more…)


Meet Dave Gebroe

(scribed in the Carpe Diem chapter because it seemed like a good idea at the time)

I’m playing Carpe Diem catch up.1

Dave Gebroe directed an interesting romance/horror/comedy film: Zombie Honeymoon.4

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Meet Robbie Davis-Floyd

(scribed in the Carpe Diem chapter because it seemed like a good idea at the time)

I’m playing Carpe Diem catch up.1

Robbie Davis-Floyd is a very interesting cultural anthropologist.4 She writes mostly about the anthropology of reproduction, but explores other things as well.5

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Become fluent in French

(scribed in the Carpe Diem chapter because it seemed like a good idea at the time)

Je parle Français un peu, mais je voudrais parler très bien.

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Autoharp

(scribed in the Carpe Diem chapter because it seemed like a good idea at the time)

I’ve got an autoharp, two of them, actually.

The first one is an ancient Oscar Schmidt Model A ‘harp that I received via Freecycle. The second one is a much newer 20-bar Oscar Schmidt that’s sitting in a UPS truck somewhere between Colorado and here.

I had so much more I wanted to say about this, but haven’t gotten there, even after days and days, and I decided that I needed to post, because it is, after all, a big thing that I’ve managed to do another thing on my list of things to do.


Living the After Party

(scribed in the Carpe Diem chapter because it seemed like a good idea at the time)

When I first listed this, I said that I just wanted to perform Living the After Party in front of a live audience. Well, that was true, and I did it at the Morning Glory Cafe Open Mic and at the Oregon Country Fair. (more…)


Learn to play hammered dulcimer

(scribed in the Carpe Diem chapter because it seemed like a good idea at the time)

The hammered dulcimer is one of my very favorite instruments.
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Buy an autoharp

(scribed in the Carpe Diem chapter because it seemed like a good idea at the time)

I recently watched Walk the Line and that reminded me that I used to play the autoharp.
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Rent the Portland Central Library

(scribed in the Carpe Diem chapter because it seemed like a good idea at the time)

I have a friend who got married in the library…rented the entire building and had a very private and intimate wedding there after hours.

I want to rent the building and have a picnic supper under the glass dome.


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