Letters from the Edge of Elfland
Dear Friends and Family,
Over the last 1002 days I participated in a project from the Day Zero Project. In my attempt to live life more intentionally, I was drawn to their concept of a bucket list with an end date (a specific one that doesn’t end with me in a pine box). We make grand lists of things to do ‘before we die.’ At Day Zero, however, they want to help us actually accomplish these goals. Thus, I attempted to accomplish 101 things between 26 December 2009-22 September 2012. Admittedly, I failed. There were many things I thought I could accomplish that I either couldn’t or didn’t. Not to be deterred, I have decided to start a new list for the next 1001 days (1000 not including today). I may post about this project along the way, or I may not. Only time can tell for sure. What I will do for now is post a link to my list, as well as a copy of the list itself on here. Thanks for reading!
Find the list here or right below:
scottishsaint (David Russell Mosley)
101 Things in 1001 Days 2
Sep 23, 2012 – Jun 21, 2015
- Read all 7 Harry Potter books once a year (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
- Read The Silmarillion, the Hobbit, and the Lord of the Rings once a year (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
- Read The Chronicles of Narnia once a year (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
- Learn French.
- Write six new poems.
- Write a book’s worth of letters from Father and Mother Christmas.
- Finish my Work in Progress.
- Go to the opera.
- Go to a ballet.
- Go to at least three professional orchestral concerts.
- Learn German.
- See Peter Pan on stage.
- Hear Mozart’s Requiem live.
- Learn 20 poems off by heart.
- Go to the Guinness Brewery.
- Write a letter to each of my siblings.
- Read a book on chess.
- Learn to ballroom dance with my wife.
- Learn to drive stick shift
- Cook an entire meal for my friends and family by myself.
- Learn some basic music theory.
- Listen to Handel’s Messiah live.
- See the Nutcracker live.
- Learn basic calligraphy.
- Learn off 20 Scriptures in context by heart.
- Learn how to knit from my wife and make a scarf.
- Make a traditional Christmas Pudding next year (2012)
- See Pirates of Penzance by a professional company
- Hike through Sherwood
- Visit France.
- Visit Germany.
- Read 100 books
- Read 200 Books
- Read 300 Books
- Read the New Testament in Greek
- Read the New Testament in Latin
- Write 52 Love Letters to Lauren in 2013
- Finish my PhD
- Visit Nottingham Castle
- Visit Chatsworth
- Publish three journal articles
- Index all journals
- Watch one movie for each year 1920-2015
- Read a book on pipe smoking/pipes
- Give up caffeine, tobacco, and alcohol for Lent 2013
- Get a job as a professor
- Write paper for the CoP Conference in Oxford (2013)
- Visit Edinburgh (Scotland)
- Make my own beer
- Visit Newstead Abbey
- Read all books by John Milbank
- Buy a book on/by Churchill for Peter Maskaluk
- Update my blog at least once a month
- Read the Summa Theologiae
- Read the Complete works of Aristotle
- Move to a new house
- Bake 12 different kinds of bread
- Help Lauren get in to a Master’s program
- Move all our stuff out of my parent’s house
- Publish my doctoral thesis
- Graduate from Nottingham
- Have kids
- Start an exercise routine
- Publish an article on Radical Orthodoxy and the Restoration Movement
- Read the Summa Contra Gentiles
- Read the Copplestone Series on Philosophy
- Visit Dorset
- Buy 5 George MacDonald Books
- Go to a conference in a different country (than UK or US)
- Preach a sermon
- Buy a churchwarden pipe
- Write a blog about the last 101 in 1001
- Read 10 works by Augustine (individually published books)
- Treat Lauren to breakfast in bed
- Take Lauren out on the lake at the university
- Read 400 Books
- Read all published books by David Bentley Hart
- Read all non-commentary books by N. T. Wright
- Have a Shakespeare night (reading a play with a group of friends)
- Have a Hobbit Day
- Try out C. S. Lewis’s ideal day
- Get Lauren to read The Lord of the Rings
- Read 5 books by Kierkegaard
- Read 5 books by Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Read 5 Books by Henri de Lubac
- Publish a book after my thesis
- Get myself on the Tolkien Professor podcast once
- Read at least 2 books by Nietsche, Kant, Derrida, and Lyotard
- Read all 12 books in the Radical Orthodoxy (Routelege) Series
- Weigh 185 lbs
- Find a manly project from The Art of Manliness and do it
- Have a French crepe
- Start saving for an emergency fund
- Buy a nice fountain pen
- Write in either my journal or my pocket notebook at least once a day
- Read three Russian Novels
- Find permanent (read tangible, lasting) replacements for iCal and Opus Domini and Goodreads
- Read the Lord of the Rings/Middle Earth books I haven’t finished
- Publish a non-historical theology article
- Go camping with a group of friends
- Buy a new dictionary
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