Reading/cultivating wisdom and skills
Loving/romancing
Family/friends
Learning languages
Working out
Walking/exploring new countries, temples, mountains, beaches, reefs, planets (as become economically efficient), and many other places I haven't thought of
I can remember day dreaming on this subject during my long commutes to and from the salt mine.
In the past five years, what sticks out the most is my availability to help freinds and neighbors. When I was punching the time clock, never had time for anybody else.
Some examples: helped neighbor rebuild hay shed destroyed from last winter. Cleared neighbors snow several times. Helped build another neighbors wood pile. Fixed three neighbors wells in one year. Helped neighbor harvest beets. Helped neighbor brand calves. Helped neighbor trap gophers. Helped neighbor fix split pivot pipe, broken disk, broken harrow. I've got a lot of neighbors...
Most tasks simply take longer to do because I'm not rushing.
Coffe, read in the morning.
Walk to library.
Prepare lunch.
Bouldering at the gym.
Grab groceries on the way back.
Prepare dinner.
Read/write.
Some days do some income generating work.
Time flies very quickly. Most days I won't get the things done that I want which is fine.
Wrap up in a blanket in cold weather and just read.
Practise writing Chinese characters with a brush
Paint pictures of the mountains
Put out salt for deer
Bake coffee cake and biscuit in the iron oven,
Hours off hunting twisty firewood, packing it all back up and chopping.
Rice out for the ptarmigan and the conies
Mark well sunrise and sunset--drink lapsang soochong.
Rolling smokes
The Flower book and the Bird book and the Star book
Old Readers Digests left behind
Bullshitting on the radio with a distant pinnacle, like you, hid in the clouds;
Drawing little sexy sketches of bare girls.
Reading maps, checking on the weather, airing out musty Forest Service sleeping bags and blankets
Oil the saws, sharpen axes
Learn the names of all the peaks you see and which is highest
Learn by heart the drainages between
Go find a shallow pool of snowmelt on a good day, bathe in the lukewarm water.
Take off in foggy weather and go climbing all alone
The Rock book,--strata, dip, and strike
Get ready for the snow, get ready
To go down.