My current bucket list:
- Tattoo my entire body (palms / face excluded)
- Get at least one article published in a journal each year
- Self-publish a book on the intersection of therianthropy and witchcraft (in progress)
- Travel to Speos Artemidos, Egypt. Pay off my guide to allow me to do a ritual there
- Get a dedicated studio for artstuff. Be it a room in my home or at an arts collective
- Create a 'Legacy Piece'. Or some form of living art / a masterpiece that will be the culmination of my skills, patience, love and existence. Something to leave to immediate family when I die - and to eventually be forgotten like a quilt in the attic - or displayed in a museum like that crazy guy who made sculptures out of medicine bottles in the Rockies; discovered years after his death.
- Make a career shift back into natural sciences, preferably in conservation ecology or herpetology.
- Possibly retire and stop working at some point? Who knows with the US capitalist hellscape though.
- Die and have my body prepared in an eco-friendly way. Would love to have my body prepared with oils, herbs and plants - and burned over a pyre in a forested area. It's picking up popularity in some towns in CO, and costs a hell of a lot less than a commercial death. We really do live in a boring dystopia.
- In memoriam probably construct some stone mausoleum on the family farm in Michigan. It wouldn't be dedicated to me, but I think it would be a cool piece of family history for future generations if there was some temple out in the middle of the woods used for some mysterious occult purpose.
"One does not meet oneself until one catches the recollection from an eye other than human" - Loren Eiseley