What's your deep, dark, secret ambition?

Rappel

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 12:18 pm

honeymoon wrote:

I'd love to live on a ranch with farm animals where I can be me, without any judgement. Where my children can play with the animals, feed them, care for them and develop a part of them which they can't develop as city kids.
Where I can plant my own produce and play the clarinet on a hill during sunset.
Where I can develop my relationships without the hubbub of city in the background.
Where I can live my life like it was meant to be lived.

You can have that life as part of a hilltop community in Israel. Where do you live now?

33055

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 12:20 pm

Rappel wrote:

I don't have any dark ambitions, but I want to fly. Really fly. I don't care if it would be the last thing I ever did.

Maybe you can try para panting.

aricelli

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 12:27 pm

Oh rappel: I so understand you. When I was younger that was my dream as well... we went on a school trip and watched an imax called “to fly”. It featured all different modes of flying. I remember watching the sky gliding and feeling such a sense of longing- to fly...

tweek

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 12:27 pm

To open a high school for at risk girls.

Since it's a dream, I may as well expand on it. I would love individual programs that help develop each girl in an area she can do well in. I would implement an academic track for girls who would go further on to college, and more of a trade school type track for girls who are interested in that path.

At the same time I would love to offer classes in social/emotional self development, and present Yiddishkeit in a real, alive, and warm manner.

At this time it's just a dream because of time, money, and practicality constraints, but every reality starts with a dream, so at least I started the process!

honeymoon

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 12:30 pm

Rappel wrote:

You can have that life as part of a hilltop community in Israel. Where do you live now?

In an area that is as far removed from my dream as can be. Sad

amother

Violet

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 12:41 pm

Amber - really? No joke? Gotta ask my husband how we can go about teaching you- he leins

amother

Powderblue

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 12:41 pm

amother wrote:

To see what its like to live alone
(Hope my anon button is working!)

Living alone is bliss. I miss it so much and highly recommend it. Ok that is a confession for the other deep, dark secret threads although I am quite open about this IRL.

Rappel

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 12:48 pm

Squishy wrote:

Maybe you can try para panting.

I'm certainly considering hang gliding. Smile

Rappel

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 12:59 pm

amother wrote:

I want to learn how to lein

Well, maybe your ambition can come true today Smile

I typed "how to lein" into YouTube, and got many tutorials.

This one (Ashkenazi) is very clear: https://youtu.be/EliCEdsjtog

I learned how to lein Megillat Esther from another woman when I was in university, and it opened my eyes to the meaning of the megillah. It's not just sing-song: it's punctuation, which helps you understand the story, and tell it. I found it made the megillah much more potent for me

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sarah58

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 1:00 pm

I want to open some sort of safe house where girls who don't have a place to be can come hang out and feel like they have a place to be
I want to write a bestseller... actually not one a few!
I want to set up a fund to pay for therapy for all those who don't go due too lack of funding
and I really really want to adopt a child!!!! maybe one day....

mommy3b2c

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 1:06 pm

Zehava wrote:

Live on a farm

Me too. More like a ranch. With a dolphin. My husband says he will by me one some day. The ranch. Not the dolphin.

amother

Taupe

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 1:16 pm

I actually have dreams where I can fly all the time. And they are glorious. Is that normal?

thunderstorm

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 1:17 pm

mommy3b2c wrote:

Me too. More like a ranch. With a dolphin. My husband says he will by me one some day. The ranch. Not the dolphin.

My DS had a yeshiva mate who actually has dolphins in a pool in his house in Mexico.

amother

Crimson

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 1:17 pm

I thought of some more ambitions:

To open a gym and sports arena where teenagers can hang out in a kosher environment (like a kosher Chelsea piers). Separate hours for each gender of course.
Bowling, basketball...arcades...

Aerobics and dancing class for girls.
May as well include a spa.

Which Rabbi would approve this?

amother

Taupe

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 1:18 pm

And my deepest ambition is to fully live up to my potential.

Challenging when one is on Imamother every spare minute.

amother

Violet

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 1:19 pm

Crimson: can you do hours for us women as well?
I would think the rabbis would be thrilled to have such a kosher venue
Go for it!

amother

Crimson

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 1:22 pm

amother wrote:

Crimson: can you do hours for us women as well?
I would think the rabbis would be thrilled to have such a kosher venue
Go for it!

Yes sure!
I’ll let you know where you can write the check to!

I forgot that I also want to open a chasidish yeshiva that offers an outstanding secular curriculum.

Did I mention I have a lot of dreams?

tigerwife

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 1:29 pm

amother wrote:

If you are separating genders, what exactly needs to be approved? It sounds totally kosher. Go for it!

amother

Violet

Wed, Feb 27 2019, 1:32 pm

Amen to that yeshiva crimson:
My sons are in a top-notch new-ish neutral chasidish yeshiva
They can hardly write english
So sad