The problem with having a bucket list is that after you do the items you have to croak.
I much prefer having a list of pleasures to anticipate enriching my life, not kissing it goodbye. So I call it my Bouquet List, goals and dreams that will add on-going texture and color and beauty and joy to my future.
After I renamed my Bouquet List, I remembered Hyacinth Bucket, the British matron in Keeping Up Appearances, who always insisted that her last name was pronounced Bouquet. I do fear that the similarity doesn't stop there; I have a bit of Hyacinth in me.
On with the fun:
THINGS I WANT TO DO STILL:
1) learn to really type
2) learn to speak French
3) see the Solomon Islands
4) go to Roratura
5) go to New Zealand
6) swim in the Great Barrier Reef of Australia
7) ride in a hot air balloon (over France, preferably)
8) learn how to use digital photography with my computer
9) get better results from my color prints
10) Really paint
11) have a treehouse
12) have a sunroom
13) write real poetry
15) kiss chubby cheeks of grandchildren
16) learn to play the piano
17) spend a summer in northern coastal France
18) spend a long time in the Outer Hebrides
19) make a mosaic river between my house and the North fence
20) meditate in God's Word
21) walk all the trails in Forest Park
22) have dinner guests 1 Sunday per month after church
23) use the stuff I have in interesting ways
24) develop a practical world view
25) spend a week in the Gulf Coast
26) spend a summer in Maine
27) ride my bike again
28) collect bits of china to my heart's delight
29) sit by bubbling musical brooks anywhere
30) think
31) if I have a good "think", write it down
32) go back to Prince Edward Island and stay in those little colored-shutter cottages
33) go back to Rye Beach
34) own a convertible and drive it across America, up and down the land
35) have a screen porch
36) have a white garden in a corner somewhere: lilacs, hydrangeas, lilies-of-the-valley...
37) .........
So, you see, if I am having this much fun I shall want it to go on and on. There was a movie, Heaven Can Wait, but I prefer the book title All This, and Heaven Too. I figure in heaven I'll be able to finish up the stuff I didn't get to, here.
3 comments:
A white garden would be beautiful, have you ever seen photos of the White Garden at Sissinghurst in England? A summer in Maine - me too! And Rye Beach - do you mean the one in NH? I know it well, my American friend lives in Rye and their friends have a beach house there! I should be out there this Fall with luck.
I can't believe it! There are only 18 miles of Atlantic coastline in NH and we know the same one from around the world. My husband and I "just happened" to find it as we were looking for a place to stay for the night, and then we wished we could stay forever. I can still feel the peace settle over me as I think about it...
I love your bucket list re-name! BEautiful!!
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