I’m not the bucket list type. To me, it sounds like a race against time, and I’m focusing more on quality these days rather than quantity. While there are still countries I’d like to visit and things I want to accomplish, I’m finding that in this stage of life I’m becoming more introspective and less fixated on how much I can get through in a day or a week. Spontaneity and broadening my knowledge are my pleasures. Yesterday, during an 80 mile drive, I listened to a thought-provoking conversation between the brilliant theologian/philosopher Karen Armstrong and Alan Jones. They addressed so many of my own questions about religion that when I got home, I sat in my driveway for half an hour just thinking. Every time I take an hour (or more!) to read what is written on this website and to post my own thoughts, I’m stretching my mind - trying hard to understand and appreciate opinions and perspectives that differ from mine without writing too many knee-jerk responses. So, to answer the question, my non-bucket, non-list includes delving deeper into whatever places my mind and the day take me.

I’m doing it now, not because I am dying, but because you never know when the end will come and if you don’t do it today, you might miss the chance. So… my partner and I are living in a well loved RV we’ve named Ruby Sunshine and we are traveling the country eating, and seeing, and smiling, and she is teaching me cribbage. I am writing and learning to marry my chef skills to my old, and rusty, journalistic skills. If you have the means, don’t wait… start checking off your bucket list now!

Paint and paint and paint and then paint a little more Write down all the stories I remember about my late brother for his daughters Travel in Asia again Travel travel and travel - Argentina (see some tango) or Brazil since I have never been to South America Hike the Panorama Trail again from Glacier Point down to the Valley in Yosemite. It is almost 9 miles and you cross waterfalls and more beauty than you can believe in one day. Did it years ago and sprained my ankle during trip - so had to walk miles that way, so this time will wear boots instead of my runners. Dewey Pt trail is another great one - you walk through wild delphiniums that are 6’ tall and occasionally when you peer through you can see doe and fawn on the other side. You can take it out to the top of Bridal Veil Falls - always renews me. There are small marshy depressions with tiny cobalt blue dragon flies and tiny green tree frogs along the way. Huge yellow and orange fungi growing on trees, more wildflowers than you can imagine - is magic to me. My kids would always protest at the beginning, until their senses adjusted to that wild world and the wonder would overtake them. Yellowstone, I have never seen Yellowstone Never have to watch my son go off to war again

Bucket list — saw the movie — Jack Nicholason at another of his best! I want to run in the rain with my socks on. Not let anything that happened yesterday - mess up today Give my opinion freely and not care about the reaction Never love anyone who doesn’t love me back Do nothing —and rest afterwards Go dancing in my stocking feet or barefoot Never regret the things I’ve done - admire the way I handled it. Sing beautiful songs Drink beer and have a he— of a party Call Heaven and see if I can reserve a room Have my family and dearest friend nearby Call heaven again to make sure my dog is at the Rainbow Bridge Thank everyone for my incredible life.

I haven’t seen the movie but it sounds like a bucket list is an act of desperation from someone who didn’t have the time or money to do what she wanted until it was almost too late. I have been working my whole life and planning for a retirement at least 10 years away that the economy says I may not have. What a fool! I have missed moments in my friends lives, all over the country, because I could not take time off from a job I despise. I still am lost between being money smart and happiness smart. I know this is an imaginary list, but I am a realist. This sort of discussion drives me to distraction. (Sounds like a good place to live, distraction, that is.)

I saw a sad picture of a woman as she lay dying from cancer at age 64. She said she worked her whole life in a miserable soap factory so that she could retire one day and do what she wanted to do. Then there was the peaceful picture of her in death.

I did not see the movie, but I have the idea. First I would wish that Frannie stay healthy. next i would wish that all the children in the world would feel loved and safe. Next, i would have to wish that the doctors could figure out what is wrong with me and fix it with out taking another piece out of me. And I wish all of you my wow friends Health,wealth and love. Above all Love there is nothing like it from a husband and from a friend and your children and Frannie I agree I wish I NEVER had to watch my son go to war.