your "Bucket List"

Parent Cafe
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<p>For anyone who hasnt seen the movie “Bucket List” : Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play two older men who have terminal diseases, find one another in the hospital and start of list of things they want to do before they die “kick the bucket”. The concept of things you want to do before you die has been around for a while. The events of the last few months and the fact that I am less than 5 years from being able to retire have me thinking… </p>

<p>What things do I want to do before, my bucket list so to speak…</p>

<p>Whats on your bucket list??</p>

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<p>I want to learn how to open a bottle of champagne with a sword!</p>

<p>sistersunnie, you didn’t list any of yours…</p>

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<p>I want to take my kids and H to see Petra.
and Machu Pichu.</p>

<p>Climb Mt. Kinabalu in time to see the sunrise.</p>

<p>Do a trek in the Himalaya’s.</p>

<p>Buy a farm where I could grow flowers, fruit, etc. I think my kids would feel close to me there.</p>

<p>Make baby quilts for the grandbabies that aren’t here yet.</p>

<p>Type up my journals (the good parts), so they are legible.</p>

<p>Dang it, this is making me sad, as it seems like a list of things I’ll never get around to.</p>

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<p>Still thinking about it, moving slowly these days…</p>

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<p>go to the Indy 500</p>

<p>travel through Europe</p>

<p>hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon or take a rafting trip down the Colorado River through the Canyon</p>

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<p>Find a few hours in my life to make a “bucket list”.</p>

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<p>Visit Australia.</p>

<p>Write a great novel.</p>

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<p>Take ballroom dancing class :)</p>

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<p>Visit Lithuania, where my mother was born.
As long as I’m in that part of the world, go to St. Petersburg and see the Hermitage.</p>

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<p>Own a hammock (and have time to take a nap in it :slight_smile: )
Take a sketching & watercolor class
Like Karen C, visit Machu Picchu (and stay in the lodge there)
Visit New Zealand and hike the Milford Track
Hike the Pacific Crest Trail
Volunteer at our local raptor center on a “flight crew” (helping injured raptors learn to fly again)
Swim with dolphins
Visit Stonehenge
Work on an international medical mission
Go on an Earthwatch expedition
Write a book
Make a quilt
Pick up my clarinet again and play in a community band or pit orchesta
Train an agility dog
Cross country ski across Finland
Read the biographies of every woman listed in Ann Reed’s “Heroes” song</p>

<p>Guess I should quit my job and get started :D</p>

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<p>Been thinking about this all day, for starters:</p>

<p>Take a cruise with the family
Travel to a foreign country
Hike a portion of the Appalachian Trail
Participate in an Elder Hostel program
Rock a grandbaby
Walk my girls down the aisle
Sit under my “lone palm” in the keys or on an island beach
Make a good difference in someone’s life</p>

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<p>My husband’s aunt climbed all over my case for not knowing what this was and then pushed me hard to make a list…wanted me to have a real heart to heart with H about it. I have a hard time with this. I like to think that both H and I find a way to do the things which matter…no lists necessary. All of life is a balancing act, some prices we pay and others are too much. To make such a list seems like a challenge, as if we are cheating ourselves if we do not do this and that. Too much of an assignment!</p>

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<p>Get on a motorcycle and just drive. Heck, I don’t care where I’m going.</p>

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<p>Finish a one man play(American Original) which I researched and started a decade ago. Visit Machu Pichu like many others here. Participate in the RAGBRAI. And shoot my age on a regulation golf course.</p>

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<p>Good thread.</p>

<p>See both my boys grad and well employed. (Probably will happen)</p>

<p>Land a “keeper” striper from the sand. (God is against this)</p>

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<p>Wander down the Champs Elysees (going cafe to cabaret)
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See the 2Kids done with school and happily married.
Rock a grandchild… Or two. :)</p>

<p>(I have always wanted to learn Spanish, so why does my bucket list include a trip to Paris? Hmmmm…)</p>

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<p>Live in NYC for a year.
Learn to speak Italian.
Re-visit England.
Go to Italy.
Read all of the books I have in “inventory”. I keep acquiring more, at this point I will have to live to be about 120 to accomplish this.
Get together with all of my good friends from college.
Learn to shuffle a deck of cards.
Watch lots of old movies.
See “Wicked” (again), “Jersey Boys” (again) and " In the Heights".
Most important of all, see my kids grow up, graduate from college and get settled.</p>

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<p>See Paris (for me and for my mother who always dreamt of going)
Take a cooking class in Tuscany
Get my work out there
See my children get married and dance at their weddings
Take a steamboat down the Mississippi
Dance at my grandchildrens’ B’nai Mitzvah…
I want to live to hear, “We have discovered the cure for cancer.” so that my children will never have to hear that diagnosis."</p>

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<p>This is a great idea!</p>

<p>Travel throughout Europe w/husband
Live in Paris for part of the year
See kids confident and engaged with life and happy
Contribute to a restructuring of the criminal justice system for greater effectiveness
Help eliminate child abuse/exploitation around the world.</p>

<p>Seeing your kids take a big step (to college) is a good motivator to think about ‘grabbing hold’ of your own life and doing things you like.</p>

<p>Thanks for the idea, sistersunnie! Hope you are thinking of some nice things, too.</p>

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<p>I’m going for the add to it as you go bucket list. And they don’t have to be of equal value.</p>

<p>Last summer - rafted the grand canyon.
Last week - took a Segway tour of our nearby city. What a blast!!!</p>