Bucket List-Making Time



My boys looking down on creation (from Sears/Willis Tower).

A wide berth exists between the 'great' ideas in my mind for my Chaos blog and my mediocre execution on paper, or, more precisely, on screen, of these ideas.

The ideas pop up several times a day -- often after surviving a Poison Control scare or while enjoying momentary peace on a child-free run or when experiencing a evanescent moment of clarity brought on by a glass of really good wine.

But while the ideas come and go, time only goes. And goes fast. Rearing children makes for long days but fast years, as my husband likes to say.

I once told a friend who asked why I wasn't blogging more regularly that I either need inspiration or I need time. If I have the time, I will find the inspiration. If I have the inspiration, I will find the time.

That is true for everything it is we want to do in life but just don't get around to it.

Which is why a bucket list is in order. I'm looking back on 44 years today. Yep, this is my birthday blog. And I'll cry if I want to.

No, just kidding. We're going to keep this light, per usual.

But lately I have been reminded of the tenuous nature of this thing we call 'life.' What is normal and good, albeit often challenging, today, can be gone tomorrow.

So before I'm "looking down on creation" permanently, I'm going to pull that bucket list together, but not until the round of golf my husband promised me for my birthday. (Ok, #1 on bucket list -- learn to golf.)

Fore!