Because I have been forced into the anxious flyer category, now, while in the friendly skies, I have more epiphanies, more moments of clarity, more wine and  now, more plans about what to do with my life If I make it back down to the ground after lift off, then on up to 10,000 feet, I’ve decided to create a bucket list and my bucket will be embossed with the words “Leslie’s Why Not Bucket?

Don’t laugh or roll your eyes now…here are a few things that have have been tossed down deep in that bucket…

• Surf and Snowboard. And I mean doing the Dew Tour – I mean the Half Pipe. I’m talking Sean White calling and asking me what I’m doing tonight?  I mean being part of the surf culture fending off endorsement offers. I have a passion like no other for this and am not afraid to embarrass myself at 47.
• Let’s put all of my belongings in storage (again) and go to Hawaii. …Or why not move back to SoCal? Why not blend into a place that will allow me to bucket without so much as a glance! Oh, oh!! Key West! Forget island fever, I’ll adapt.
• I so want to feel a violin under my chin. Better yet, a fiddle! Lord, just please make me play like Dixie Chick and dance like a Pussycat Doll! I’ve sung a lot and it seems my voice wants to sing country no matter what my wish. I want to feel my heart beat wildly again as an audience stands and claps for me! Me? I love bringing happiness to others my opening my mouth and making music!
• I think I’ll move back to my hometown. It’ll be as if I never left! Right? The KY Derby will be old hat (pun intended) and friends will beg to visit me on that coveted weekend. Lakes will be my thing, not beaches as land locked is a bit of a thing.
• Yes! Go back to college. I want to become, in no specific order,  Oceanographer, an Interior Designer – an Arborist/ Landscape Designer – a thrift shop owner – a Nurse and oh, a Writer.

So as I heard “Ladies and Gentlemen, we’re making our final decent into Boston...”, I decided this whole bucket list thing? It’s a great exercise and even better if I actually plow through it. By no means is it full. Rather, as life does its thing and presents itself, I’m sure I will say “I want to do that” many. many more times.

So enough about my desires and me!

No matter what your age – or how realistic or silly – no matter of anything…….

what’s in your bucket?

photo credit: dinoboy

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