Hello! I hope all you readers had a wonderful weekend filled with BBQ, fireworks, and a great deal of red, white, and blue!

Whether or not you have started Float yet, I think you will enjoy today’s post. I promise not to spoil anything important! My lips are sealed.

Not too far into Float Emerson’s friend, Hank, tells all the Red Maple men about his life list and they each begin a list of their own. Hank’s life list is basically a bucket list, but he calls it a life list because he thinks it is more positive to focus on filling up life with awesome experiences rather than checking things off the list in order to get closer to kicking the bucket. Hank says it this way on page 97:

“Life really isn’t about the finish line; it’s about all the cool stuff you get to do on the way there.”

Hank explains that with each item he crosses off his life list he ages one more year, making him already close to one-hundred at the age of twelve. He explains his thinking when he says, “I don’t think that people should age just because the managed to survive one more year. That’s dumb. I could sit on my couch for an entire year, but that doesn’t mean that I lived another year.”

I have taken this idea from the extraordinary, and invisible, Hank and I’m challenging you to create a life list of your own. Grab some paper, a pen, and jot down all your wildest dreams — the ones that would really fill your life up and make it worth something. Some of the things you write down may be small, some may be huge. Some might take you years to accomplish, achievable in a day, or even thought impossible presently. Write them all down. Every little, or big, random thing that you want to do should be added to your life list.

If you’re having trouble thinking of things to put on your life list, ask yourself these questions and I bet you will figure out some things you would like to add:

• Of all the places in the world, where would you like to visit?
• What skills would be fun to learn?
• Who would you like to meet?
• What is the craziest, most exciting way you can think of to spend a day (while still keeping safety somewhat in mind)?
• What are your goals?
• What would make for a really good memory, or story?
• What sounds like absolute and totally amazing fun?
• What have other people done that you wish you could do to?

After you start your life list you can begin growing older and older! Keep track of how many life list items you mark off and add a year for each one. Start at one (you’re just a baby life-lister for now) and see how old you can grow before the end of the month!

I want to hear all about the things you are going to add to your life list! Tell me in the comments below, or send me an email at jessapillowcaseproject@gmail.com so I can hear all about the fun things you are doing and the many years you are growing in the coming month!