Know my children as adults
Publish two non-fiction books
Have a photo published in National Geographic
Own a B&B
Hold five patents
Build furniture and cabinets
Pay for the kids to go to College
Build a wooden boat
Retire at 55
Paint something amazing
Have articles published in Monocle and The New Yorker
Pay off the House
Live in southern France
Train an Espalier apple tree
Teach history
Write two novels
Live on a boat
Climb in the Kita Alps of Japan
Have a winter home someplace warm and sunny
Own my own successful business
Walk the streets on Venice at sunrise
Change at least one child’s life for the better
Sail across the Atlantic
See my Mother want for nothing
Love the same woman for the rest of my life
Own rental property
Become the man my father wanted me to be
Cycle from Canada to Mexico
Paddle the waters of Hawaii
See my grandchildren succeed in life
Pass from this earth smiling
Leave my wife and children financially and emotionally secure