catapult magazine

Top Ten re: doing

by Bill Boerman-Cornell

Top Ten Things I wish I had the Guts, Time, Faith, or Money To Do

1. Sell our second car and take the bus to work.
2. Go to Washington and sit outside the White House for months and months
   until I could talk to President Bush, then try to convince him that the poor
   of this country are worth caring for, that the environment is worth saving,
   and that the war against terrorism isn’t working.
3. Learn to play the bagpipes.
4. Spend no money at all next Christmas.
5. Bike across the country with my daughter.
6. Walk to the grocery store, haul food back in my kids’ little red wagon.
   
7. Confront Christians who are moving away from racially mixed
   neighborhoods.
8. Buy dinner for a mean person and be nice to him or her.
9. Canoe across Lake Michigan.
10. Sue the NRA.

Top Ten Things I Hope to do in Heaven

1. Take classes.


2. Play with the legos.


3. Listen to my grandpa, C.S. Lewis, Dante, Martin Luther King, and God
   tell stories.


4. Ride bikes with my friends.


5. Read for hours in a hammock.


6. Eat the food.


7. Build sand sculptures on the beach.


8. Race cheetahs.


9. Listen to the music?all the music.


10. Teach.