New Year Activities - written at the end of 2023 - why didn't I publish?

 The Artist's Way ends with an instruction to wish boldly, across many facets of life. One is told to write 10 wishes in the categories of Health, Possessions, Leisure, Relationships, Creativity, Career, and Spirituality. I kicked off my sabbatical/2nd half of the year journal with this exercise, though I added to the lists over time as I couldn't manage all 10 at once. I achieved a lot of my wishes - I was designing my new life, so the wishes helped direct me. 

I will do the same exercise in my new year journal (probably the yellow Portuguese one). But I want to start by mapping out all of the activities and creations I imagine desiring. Then I can turn them into wishes. Some already are. I can also decide which ones I want the most, and which are just passing fancies. As I consider joining a ceramics studio, that is a question. My friends remind me that I can quit. I remind myself that whatever money I spend on tools will not affect my life.

So - 

Ceramics - twice a week I go create. I will make gifts. I can make prizes... which means I can have contests... or bribe people to participate in things. Though V reminded me that just inviting people and letting them show up or not is the best way to do things.

Dance - Go to Mission Fusion, tango, or alternative once a week or more.

MGM continues on a roughly monthly basis

Craft parties - where everyone uses the same technique/supplies to make their own thing

• Accordion books? Of wishes?
• Valentines
• San Francisco city maps!!!! Like everyone starts with a rough outline of the city (maybe I trace a real map?) and then draws in their memories and homes and favorite hangs.
• Golden GATEKEEPING!!?!? LMAO!!!!
• And, they can be reused in the Valentine's event to map out a perfect day in the city. Or core memories together. God I'm good.
• Mom suggests printing out a big version and putting it up on a wall for everyone at a party to add to. 

Dates/Sex - hopefully find a friend with benefits or two for a few months. Maybe something serious after Burning Man. At the solstice parade that I went to everyone was supposed to write something that they wanted to let go of. I put something like "reluctance to express sexual desire." If I meet hot people, why not tell them (in a no-pressure flattering way that still clearly conveys interest.)

Learning - Grind on Chinese until I can have a conversation with YD's mom. Get deeper work knowledge. 

Teaching - onboard new people at work. Volunteer as a tutor of some kind? Homework helper?

Writing - more essays. Taking things from outline to draft to finished. Not just scribbling, scribbling, and more scribbling.

But also writing letters to friends. Always that.

Reading - Recoltes et Semailles - could I start a french reading group? is Recoltes et Semailles too intense?

Festivals - Fair and Burning Man again