BEFORE I KICK THE BUCKET

Have you made your bucket list?  I don't care how old you are.  If you are young, with a good bucket list your life will have more direction and you will have many many great experiences.  If you are older, like me, you have to keep the list going.  The orgin of BUCKET LIST from Wikipedia.:

"The Bucket List is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Rob Reiner, written by Justin Zackham, and starring .....Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. The main plot follows two terminally ill men (portrayed by Nicholson and Freeman) on their road trip with a wish list of things to do before they "kick the bucket." I really thought it was an older orgin.  I am sure the idea has been out there in many forms, but the idea really took off as a result of this movie.  Well worth your time if you haven't seen it. I wrote mine shortly after seeing the movie.  Many of my items remain the same and some drop off because I have lost interest or because my goals or thoughts change.  Most people equate their bucket list to travel.  No No.  Anything that is something you want to do.  It is not a to-do list for day to day stuff we are afraid we will forget.  It is not a list of world peace issues or things that you cant really participate in.   It comes from your heart.  For the list, do not hold yourself back.  You don't have to order it, life doesn't order itself very well so why should your list. 

I would love to hear from you and what your lists are.  Maybe I could even pair up a couple of you who have the same item on your list....and need someone else to do it with.   Lots of time we coincide in strange and wonderful ways. Maybe there is someone reading the blog that can help someone else meet their list items.  Who knows.

This year is really the first year, believe it or not, that I am still thinking in the future but one that predictably has a end point.  We all may not be here tomorrow, but carefully hide that fact from ourselves.  My health has kept me back from doing some things.  Getting too far from my support system makes me nervous.  But soon, I am going to kick that idea to the curb.  My physical limitations keep me from doing some things, but I keep that on the list hoping that there is a crane somewhere that can life me there.  Sometimes items costs too much.  But they should stay on the list.  Who knows when you will win the lottery.  Bucket Lists help us focus on getting things done that we want to do.

My Bucket List:

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  Volunteer at Yellowstone or another Park for a summer
• Ralph and I spent a few days here in the late 80's.  It is so beautiful.  I would love to spend some months just absorbing the beauty and meeting people from all over the world.

• Volunteer as a Church Secretary
• Mostly this is a high expense for the church, I think it would be exciting to help people by being the one who answers the phone and assists connections
• Attend the Icon workshop at Kanuaga.
• The Episcopal retreat in the NC mountains, Kanuaga,

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  Cruise the north eastern shore of us, Russia,Norway, Finland, Poland
• I love cruising and this area of the world is one I have not visited.  I have been to Gdansk by land. The Baltic was so beautiful  I even found a small piece of amber in the sand at Hel.

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  Go on a Freighter cruise.
• I think leaving a port and not knowing where or when would be so exhilarating.  Accommodations are few and quite adequate, I have heard.  Lots of time for just reading, sitting in the sun and talking to friends.
• Design and teach a class on Nursing History--the last fifty years.
• I have shared these years and would like to give nurses an appreciation of where they were and where they are now, helping them become leaders that will guide nurses to the future.

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  Spend some time with my niece's and nephew alone so I get to know them and they get to know me uncensored.
•  Susan.,and  Nancy and Sean and families, and Jim and Mary.   I adore my nieces and nephews.  I am not sure they know how proud I am of them.  I would like to know them better.  I get to see Jeff more when I visit my sister.  We always interact in a huge group or alone for short times.

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  All it used to be.

  Spend a week at Smithsonian, just slowly
• I have been to all the museums, but it has all been with others.  I want to go and rent a mobile wheelchair and spend as much time as I want looking at each item, painting, movie, etc.

• South American cruise around the perimeter.
• This is high tone thinking.  I would love to start on the East Coast of this country and arrive on the West Coast and taking a train home.  Or come or go through the Panama Canal.
•  Cross the Atlantic on cruise ship.
• My husband, Ralph, crossed the Atlantic in the thirties as he went to study in France.  The stories could not be replicated, but the experience would be just as wonderful.
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  Sit on the beach and watch the sunset.
• With mobility issues, little simple pleasures are so hard.
• Go fishing on a quiet lake in a boat.
• Growing up, my Grandfather and I would fish for hours. Everyday.  The lake was next to my house.  This is really what it looked like.  Such peace. 
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  Celtic Sisters Knot

  Go on vacation with my sister, just she and me, at least once a year when she retires.  Cheap and basic...better for sharing

This is the start, but I will be adding as time goes on......

                                                                              JIM, this one if for you