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Michael J. Smith, President of Charlotte Center City Partners
• Live to love my children’s children — know the next generation.
• Travel in the Holy Land.
• Camp and hike through the major national parks with my wife and children.
• Golf in Scotland with my father and brother.
• Bring baseball back to Center City.
• Strengthen my faith daily.
• Find a role to serve at UNC.
• Travel through Alaska with my wife.
Angeles Ortega, executive director of the Latin American Coalition
• See my youngest daughter graduate from graduate school.
• Celebrate 25 years of happy marriage.
• Establish ongoing support for the Latin American Coalition to be self-supporting.
• Visit Asia, in particular, China.
• Own a home by the beach.
Donna Lisenby, Catawba Riverkeeper
• See the great falls of the Catawba River restored.
• See humanity change its relationship with our planet from one of extraction, pollution and consumption to one of stewardship and caretaking for future generations.
• Experience many of the world’s endangered species before they become extinct due to global warming, pollution and sprawl.
• Live a life that gives as much back to my community as I take.
• Raft the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.
Teresa Buford, YWCA resident
• Help and encourage women in the prison system to get back into society.
• Reach out to Hispanic people, learn their language and help with their social programs.
• Build recreation facility for homeless.
• Feed hundreds of homeless people.
• Preach the gospel to the homeless.
Penny Craver, music promoter and co-owner of Dish and Amos’ SouthEnd
• Have a successful live music club in Charlotte where I can book all types of music from alternative to blues to world music to bluegrass to jazz and feature a different genre each night of the week.
• Change Charlotte’s attitude toward the alternative arts, nightlife and people who may be different than the “status quo.”
• Run for City Council (possibly in 2007).
• Buy a beach house.
• Franchise Dish.
Melissa G. Post, Curator, Mint Museum of Craft + Design
• Become a proficient functional potter.
• Read the writings of the great philosophers.
• Pursue one subject to the nth degree.
• Travel, live, and work overseas.
• Perfect my taxi whistle.
• Be more patient, more expansive, a better human being.
• Take more time to discover the gifts of others; inspire someone.
• Have last will & testament notarized.
• Find all of the things I hid for safekeeping.
• Live up to my potential, while remaining true to my vision.
• Embrace “Risk, Trust, & Serendipity.”
CHILDREN’S THEATRE DAY-CAMPERS
• Gameel Herbert: “What kind of a question is that?” (Followed by “go to college, give money to the homeless and become a family man/famous actor/rapper.”
• Josie Sewell: Go to every state and give $100 to charity before I finish fifth grade.
• Felice Cunningham: Travel the world, climb Mount Everest and bungee jump.
• Taylor Grant: Give money to the Humane Society and become President, a singer, an actor and a fashion designer.
• Taylor Harris: Break a world record.
• Sarah Treanor: “Read the most of anything.”
• Lucy Thames: Be a singer/actor and have a husband and three children.
• Jenna Nodine: Before next school year ends, wants to finish the book she’s writing. See the Louvre, ride a hot air balloon, be a famous actor and give animals good homes — and “get a job, probably.”
• Ashlyn Atkinson: Wants to set a world record for “just anything, really” and have at least two children and a husband.
• Jazzmia Martin: Be a ballerina, actor and learn to skateboard.
• Allison Whitmeyer: Meet the President, be “involved” in the cure for cancer and go to Paris.
— Karen Shugart
Now that you’ve read some Charlotteans’ life lists, send us your own. We’ll compile them and write a follow-up story soon about what you want to do with the rest of your life. E-mail your lists to: sam.boykin@cln.com, or mail them to Creative Loafing, attn: Sam Boykin, 6112 Old Pineville Rd., Charlotte, NC 28217.
This article appears in Aug 10-16, 2005.
