Wherein

... I dance in my car on the way home from work when I see the post go up on The Wilder Coast. I, along with eight others, had our Instagram photos selected for the first #wildercoast round-up. Scroll to the bottom of Melina's most recent post to find me there (@erinwouldratherwalk).

Tomorrow I head back to the beach featured in my photo to soak up some more sun and dig my toes into the sand.

Day 7 of 10 for Summer 2013.

It's #25 on the List.

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Speaking of which.

2013, the year in which I turned 30, has spawned this:

Heading into this year, I had a number of things which I required to occur, one way or another. Things that, perhaps, you would think did not need to be on any list because they were going - they needed - to happen.

So would I have said before the year turned over.

But, heading into January, something strange happened. I felt compelled to start this list as a way of sending it out into the universe that these things were going to happen and by the very act of writing them down, I was writing my own prophecy. And the universe saw fit to help me cross those items off the list.

As you can see, there have been adjustments. So, perhaps you think I am cheating. But, in much the same way as the original idea surfaced, my editing has been deliberate.

Maybe it seems silly to write "Eat from a food truck in Raleigh." Something so simple. But how many times do we get distracted by the everyday tedium of what we normally do and forget that, just around the corner, is something startlingly fresh that we can try, that will make us laugh with childlike joy?

Some of the other items are bold. "Run (which became Walk/Run with the onset of my summer challenges) 1000 miles." This will be my second attempt at covering 1000 miles in a year. In 2011, I came up quite short at 600. Last year, I managed to set and achieve the moderately increased goal of 750.

I didn't write this all in one sitting; I've been adding to it all year.

#30 is still blank.

Thoughts, my friends?