BS: Life 'To do' lists

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 08:40 PM

Hmmm. Well, I know Cheech Wizard, but I don't know all the secondary characters. Belinda Bump is obviously one of those over-endowed maidens in Cheech's neck of the woods, right?

Bobert - Good idea about the railroad graffiti book! And we really oughta have a cold drink together sometime. Fer sure.

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Bee
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 07:44 PM

Hee! Little Hawk, if you know Cheech Wizard, then you'll know why I named two of my cats Sergeant Bluepetal and Belinda Bump.

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 06:45 PM

Write and have published a book of short stories...

Take pictures of railcar grafetti and put out a picture book with the very best...

Open for BB King...

Have a chilly one with Little Hawk... Okay, you don't have to drenk no alkeehol if ya' don't wanta... Nehi okay???

Same with Bruceie...

Visit Ireland by boat with the P-Vine who refuses to fly...

Meet George Bush in an a dark alley... Yeah, babym I might be anti-war but that boy needs a good ass whup...

Play a couple ganmes of HORSE with Barak...

and lastly...

Finish renovating my old hotel...

That 'bout does it... If I get half that done before I go, I'll go happy...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Jeri
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 06:21 PM

Maeve, that goes straight to my heart. Thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 06:09 PM

Not until it's off-world travel, that is... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 05:34 PM

Nope. ;-) I don't seem to think in those terms, Liz. I have no such "bucket" list.

If I did, though, I guess it would be something like this:

To Do:

- Have a (whole series of) date(s) with Winona Ryder.
- Do a power lunch with Hillary Clinton.
- Send hamster aloft in hot air balloon. Interview upon hypothetical return.
- Send hamster down in radio-controlled submarine. Interview upon hypothetical return.
-Send hamster up in model rocket capsule. Interview upon hypothetical return.
- Kick Spaw HARD in the knickknacks when he's not looking, so he will finally understand what an out and out bastard that F'in Cheech Wizard really is! Tell him, "That was for your own good." ;-)
- Learn to do the Rhumba.
- Jam with Bob Dylan and then we could talk music and stuff for a couple of hours.
- Go sailing for the afternoon with Joan Baez. Help Buffy Sainte-Marie plant her garden in Hawaii.
- Achieve enlightenment.
- Exit the body at will any time I want to.
- Travel around as a disembodied presence and take a really good look at Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and other points more distant.


I'm a bit puzzled by other people's lists. Travel? Oh, it's okay, I guess...but I find that no matter where you go, you're still there. So it's not that big a deal to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: maeve
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 04:51 PM

Jeri- You've already been that to me.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Megan L
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 04:45 PM

Jeri my dear think for a moment how many people in here care about you and each in our own way love you. It is our differences that make us special unique beings and each of us bring something of that here.

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Bee
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 04:30 PM

My list isn't written and is barely formed at the back of my mind. The most solid one is nothing more complex than managing to move home to Cape Breton before I get too old to enjoy it. I'd like to travel a little more, mostly to Europe, but also to parts of Canada I haven't seen. I'd like to finish all the glass projects I have lying around in design form or cut but not painted. There are things to do with family I hope to have done, but those are private.

And I'd like to play more music and find some people to play it with that don't live hundreds of km. away!

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Jeri
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 03:41 PM

As someone with A.D.D., bucket lists are meaningless. Daily 'to-do' lists often end up being in several versions, all possibly having one thing crossed off on good days. Having one for my whole life seems immensely more futile.

I have retroactive lists: things I wish I'd done differently, things I wish had worked, things I missed. I KNOW this is stupid and hopeless, but I still beat myself up over small things.

I want the people I love to know I love them. I want to feel like I matter to people I care about but if I find I dont, I want it to hurt less. I want to be inspired sometimes, to laugh sometimes, to feel safe sometimes and help others feel these things.

Long term goals? HA! Things I want to do get set aside and forgotten as the moments pass. Things I want to BE, not so much.

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 02:46 PM

My greatest wish is travel. The United States is a very big place, with lots of amazing variety, but I have been to 42 of the 50 states...including Alaska.
Sadly, I have only been outside the US borders twice, for a few hours each time.
I want to see the British Isles, many parts of Europe..(especially a beer tour of Belgium), and as much of Australia as is humanly possible...collecting fascinating wood as I go! (Australia is to wood as Belgium is to beer)

Yeah, there are other items in my 'to do' list, but some of the older items are a bit faded now...like 'learning to be a good musician'.

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 02:24 PM

No, I intend to do it in capital letters.

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 12:13 PM

LtS, thanks for your very eloquently written account on Dachau.

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Amos
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 11:53 AM

There are plenty of places I would love to go, by boat, air, or foot, or train, or whatever.

I think I would prefer to generate a really positive reason for going, which contributed value as well as providing the pleasure of the travel.

There are a dozen research lines I would like to pursue, but lack the means to, several books I want to write but don't spend enough time on, scores of folks I want to visit with and play music with, but can't make the time for, and some wonderful trups and explorations I would like to undertake.

But they aren't in my Bucket list. Perhaps I should ghet organized!! What a concept!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Newport Boy
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 10:43 AM

Rap: "I want to live long enough to finish this list and then drink Canada Dry."

Shouldn't that be ".... and then drink Canada dry." ???

Phil

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Alice
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 09:50 AM

I coincidentally started looking at sites online a couple weeks ago on the topic of life goals. I was looking for what people choose to do that gives meaning and purpose to their life after 50.. the things that would be on an epitaph or in a eulogy.

I found for the most part, people were making lists of things like losing weight and going on vacation to such and such a place in the world. Not that travel isn't a great life experience, but in looking back at your life from your death bed, I was searching for what give people a great sense of accomplishment in their life, what was on the "to do" list that left a positive legacy.

I've pretty much accomplished the goals I had when I was younger, becoming an artist and creating a body of work that I'm satisfied with, raising a son to be a good person, learning singing technique to use my voice the best I can, having my own little Irish band and performing, helping other people, helping to improve the world's natural environment with jobs and appointments I've held. I was searching the 'net for people over 50 and their life goals. I've already traveled a lot, so I am looking at what I want to achieve that will be more of a humanitarian goal.

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 09:33 AM

My list isn't written down and changes constantly -- except for the part where it says "I want to live long enough to finish this list and then drink Canada Dry."

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Micca
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 09:17 AM

did 2 (at least) off my personal List this year, visited Alaska and went through the Rocky Mountains on the train!!!!,
Liz, by an amazing coincidence, the showed the film "The Bucket List" ( Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman) on the Coach from Boston to Portland last Thursday when I travelled on it!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: maire-aine
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 08:55 AM

I did a lot of travelling after college and before I bought my house, but I'd still like to visit Eastern Europe-- Krakow, Prague, Budapest, etc. I'm not interested in doing anything that puts life or limb at risk, though. Oh, and a distillery tour of Scotland!

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Emma B
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 07:24 AM

I've managed to walk (part) of the Great Wall 2 years ago, visited Yellowstone this year and got to meet a personal 'hero' last year....

Bungee jumping you can keep but flying a glider or hot air ballooning would be nice.

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Beer
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 06:28 AM

Visit Ireland.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 06:03 AM

I have a sort of wish list of things to do before the inevitable:- but it seems to change occasionally as I age. I wanted to do a 'wingwalk' but am too heavy apparently. I would like to bungee off that bridge in New Zealand, which is supposed to be the highest in the world... also to bungee from a helicopter over the Grand Canyon. Would like to see Mount Rushmore, Mount Fujiyama, Vesuvius, trek to the base (NOT the top) of Everest..... take a trip into space to look back at earth (probably never afford it), walk the Great Wall of China and a million other lesser things.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: BS: Life 'To do' lists
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 04:15 AM

I'm sure I've created a thread like this before but memory and search engines fail me... so here's another.

Anyone else have a 'Life List' or, as the film has it, a 'Bucket List'? (That's a list of things to do before you kick the bucket as it were....)


I've had one for about 25 years now, it's got 52 items on it, of which I've done 21. Last weekend I managed 2 more.

I've always wanted to see Mozart's birthplace, and whilst on a visit to Munich, we took the train over the border to Austria on Friday to visit the amazing and beautiful city of Salzburg. Well.. the city is gorgeous, full of light, colour, art and flowers. Mozart's house is custard yellow and on the most fascinating street, full of traditional wrought iron shop signs, it has little alleyways, market squares, incredible Christmas shops and friendly people. The castle towers over the town like a brooding mother hen, sparkling in the sunlight and looking stunning against a bright blue sky. Later, when a thunderstorm was brewing, it didn't look so friendly....

We avoided much of the 'Sound of Music' thing, although I now realise we stood on the steps where they sang 'Do, a dear' without noticing and walked through a group of women of a certain age posing in the gateway and taking photos with at least 8 different cameras whilst they all asked 'did you get one on ****'s camera?' They got at least one shot with 'disgruntled British Tourist who hates the bloody film' stomping through it. :D

On a complete contrast, I've long wanted to visit one of the major Concentration camps, so on Sunday, we took a trip to Dachau. Here are some photos.

Words cannot describe how horrible a place it was. What is left (most of the Barracks have been demolished but the majority of the buildings including the 'special prisoner' cells and the infamous 'bath house', workshops and crematoria still stand) is a bleak reminder of how cruel man can be for what can only be seen now as the most trivial of reasons. There are hardly any artefacts, only one barrack has exemplars of furniture, making the overall effect one of remembrance, not glorification or commercialisation. There are no concessions, no tacky souvenir stalls or overly emotional visitors' books or captions on the displays. It is simply a stark, informative and incredible presentation of the historical events of the time. The only emotion comes from the testimony of those kept prisoner there - and even they are written in such a matter of fact - almost common-place way that they evoke no burning desire for revenge, only a deep and lasting sadness for the past.

The Memorial wall there says - Never Again - but we still do it. People the world over are still being incarcerated and punished because they were born into a different religion, have a physical disability, belong to a different racial group, are attracted to the same sex or just simply carry a different political pamphlet.

And that's the saddest thing about Dachau - that we know it still happens.

LTS