{"id":1080,"date":"2005-09-01T01:23:19","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T09:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/09\/01\/seven-by-seven\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:25:28","slug":"seven-by-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/09\/01\/seven-by-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven by Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m taking Chad<\/a> up on his request<\/a>.
\nSeven things I plan to do before I die:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. write more\n
  2. read all the books on my shelves\n
  3. get another tattoo\n
  4. learn to knit\n
  5. become a mother\n
  6. make more art\n
  7. learn how to speak Spanish<\/ol>\n

    Seven things I can do:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. drive a stick-shift\n
    2. wiggle my ears\n
    3. bake excellent pies (crusts from scratch)\n
    4. be punny (intended)\n
    5. create a comfortable, peaceful home\n
    6. take risks\n
    7. be a loving friend<\/ol>\n

      Seven things I cannot do:<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. write computer code (except bad HTML and butchered CSS)\n
      2. run a marathon\n
      3. stand on my head\n
      4. talk and cook at the same time\n
      5. sneeze quietly and daintily\n
      6. leap tall buildings in a single bound\n
      7. tolerate huge crowds<\/ol>\n

        Seven things that I find really attractive about the opposite sex:<\/p>\n

          \n
        1. gentleness\n
        2. skill with electronic gadgetry\n
        3. sense of personal style\n
        4. sense of responsibility as a provider\n
        5. egalitarian attitudes\n
        6. linear thinking\n
        7. their pieces\/parts are different than mine<\/ol>\n

          Seven things I say the most:<\/p>\n

            \n
          1. I’m just sayin’\n
          2. Treats! (high-pitched and shrill to call the cats to get yummies)\n
          3. I love you\n
          4. I’m hungry\n
          5. Did you hear\/read about\/know….? (followed by trivia)\n
          6. Various forms of meowing and chirruping at the cats\n
          7. My chin is not<\/i> out! (A certain person teases me that when I’m annoyed or mad my chin gets pointy and juts out.)<\/ol>\n

            Seven books I love:<\/p>\n

              \n
            1. anything by Bill Bryson\n
            2. Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White\n
            3. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd\n
            4. Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott\n
            5. The Gift of Therapy : An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients, Irvin Yalom\n
            6. anything by May Sarton\n
            7. When We Were Very Young\/Now We Are Six, A.A. Milne (and The Tao of Pooh\/The Te of Piglet, Benjamin Hoff)<\/ol>\n

              Seven people I would like to see take this quiz:<\/p>\n

                \n
              1. Fran — Sacred Ordinary<\/a>\n
              2. Kirsten — Cicada<\/a>\n
              3. Euan — The Obvious?<\/a>\n
              4. Natalie — Blaugustine<\/a>\n
              5. Nacho — Woodmoor Village Zendo<\/a>\n
              6. Nathania — Purls Beyond Price<\/a>\n
              7. Ronni — Time Goes By<\/a><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                I’m taking Chad up on his request. Seven things I plan to do before I die: write more read all the books on my shelves get another tattoo learn to knit become a mother make more art learn how to speak Spanish Seven things I can do: drive a stick-shift wiggle my ears bake excellent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaney"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10922,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/10922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}