the second half of life: your hopes and aspirations.

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Norwegian

Trad climber

dancin on the tip of god's middle finger

Topic Author's Original Post - May 14, 2015 - 05:13am PT

i'd like to return to school and
secure a master's in civil engineering.

i'd like to learn the piano
and perhaps a string instrument.

i'd like to song-write,
materializing the rampant
emotional tides that
i've instigated and endured
for the first half of my life.

i'd like to ride my bike
to alaska.

i'd like to be a story-telling
grandpa with a soft knee
for sitting grand-kiddies.

i'd like to simplify,
and dwell minimally.

what's in store for your?
future.

rockermike

Trad climber

Berkeley

May 14, 2015 - 05:54am PT

You must mean the 'final third'? :)

I'm aiming for a beautific vision of God and the perfection of creation.

Short of that I'd settle for good enough health that I can continue to enjoy the outdoors.

Oh, and the lap for grand kids is good too.

Jaybro

Social climber

Wolf City, Wyoming

May 14, 2015 - 05:59am PT

Too young (58d) to think about that. I'll check in when I hitt the halfway mark!

Norwegian

Trad climber

dancin on the tip of god's middle finger

Topic Author's Reply - May 14, 2015 - 06:05am PT

cragman is so selfless.
how did you earn that emotional maturity, dean?

rocker i like the sought-god-vision.

i've seen and will never forget her.

jaybro, your forever is untied.

and now,
for a poetic twist on furtures:

i'd strive to be a star etched into the dust.

crankster

Trad climber

May 14, 2015 - 06:05am PT

Great poem, Norway Man...long way to AK, better get started.

Norwegian

Trad climber

dancin on the tip of god's middle finger

Topic Author's Reply - May 14, 2015 - 06:30am PT

downhill both ways
and i'm
going to get drunk
with my guardian angel.

Norwegian

Trad climber

dancin on the tip of god's middle finger

Topic Author's Reply - May 14, 2015 - 07:13am PT

it's alright don't worry about
me melancholymoose
i'm going to take
a lifetime off
after this one.

for now i gotta carry on
in this manner
due to my over-development
down there.

super low center of mass
if you know what i mien.

Charlie D.

Trad climber

Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra

May 14, 2015 - 07:41am PT

To continue to give my life away...that's all I want

There are givers and there are takers, an inspiring way to live Dean. BTW CV here's a bone for you to chew on and a great aspiration:

"Accept the act of whatever the moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. This will miraculously transform your life" - Eckhart Tolle.

Making plans is always good but then comes the cards you're dealt; some of which you have asked for and some of which you haven't. I'd suggest you have a lot more cards to play yet in your game than you may think. My hope is I've still got a 1/3 of the game left in good health.

Charlie D.

SC seagoat

Trad climber

Santa Cruz, Moab or In What Time Zone Am I?

May 14, 2015 - 08:14am PT

I'm well over a half.
Waking up every day and getting out of bed, off for a hike, bike ride, ski, whatever. Every year it's a little slower and more ibuprofen and the newest in "ace" bandages...but I hope to keep cranking as long as possible.

And most important I hope to be around long enough to be an active granny. We shall see.

Susan

Norwegian

Trad climber

dancin on the tip of god's middle finger

Topic Author's Reply - May 14, 2015 - 08:31am PT

gee Charlie
since we're telling each
other what to do,
let me tell you:

you need to be happily poor.
you've exhausted the opposite horizon
and now you're due.

you, nancy and the dogs,
come on.
design your sky-line.

)hint( it ain't 4-days a week on
and 3 off.

cheers and we are due for
some sortin up canyon

Norwegian

Trad climber

dancin on the tip of god's middle finger

Topic Author's Reply - May 14, 2015 - 08:34am PT

ok dingus i'll play the physics game.

you and i we better run f*#king fast
so when we fling off the cliff
we coast
on the horizontal
component of our dream.

ok, got the vector covered,
now for the moment.

your moment needs inertia
(reference the above word-stream)

because forever
will stress you
unless you
accommodate by bending.

Norwegian

Trad climber

dancin on the tip of god's middle finger

Topic Author's Reply - May 14, 2015 - 08:35am PT

love you SC
thank you for the solid beta
on that eternal budhist
camp up there in the hills
above santa cruz.

Norwegian

Trad climber

dancin on the tip of god's middle finger

Topic Author's Reply - May 14, 2015 - 08:36am PT

cosine crosses zero better, dingus

pud

climber

Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia

May 14, 2015 - 08:37am PT

I hope and aspire to make it through the day.

Norwegian

Trad climber

dancin on the tip of god's middle finger

Topic Author's Reply - May 14, 2015 - 08:42am PT

pud the mouth
is a fine line
between a frown
and a smile.

a resonance
occurs imparting
reverse stresses
on the cornerstone
of our face
as convex and concavity
dance
and in the end
the mouth breaks
and the face
is finally free
from expression governance,
and then

probably just song
gushes from our
soul