July 20th, 2016
The Letter is B, for BUCKET List
It's not that I'm closing up shop, but my Bucket List is strangely reminiscent of preparing to Close the Doors for good.
No, no, - what I am trying to do is make life more serene, - stuffing the bucket full of things accomplished and stressful decisions made....
My Bucket List doesn't contain any exotic wishes - like visiting the Taj Mahal, riding elephants in Africa or crossing Canada by rail - it is much more prosaic, but just as satisfying.....
In one corner, tucked in beside the piano, I have a chest of drawers full of music, a CD stand bulging with discs, more CDs in the tall stand Charles made to hold them and the myriad DVDs we gathered over the years,as well as the LPs that that we treasured when that's where beautiful music came from, to fill the home. Some of them not sent twirling for years........
So that's No. 1 on my Bucket List - to listen to each of them at least once more, and keep the CD player hot on the go, from morning until evening, when occasionally I will watch a DVD, or even an old VHS that languishes towards the back. Haven't watched On Golden Pond for years.......
And No. 2 would have to involve snapshots! Have you any idea how many pictures you can accumulate in eight decades??? And the frames to fill them....?
Speaking of frames, how about all the pictures hanging on the walls, waiting for a little tape to be affixed assigning their final destination. Oh, who would like what? This will have to be No. 3 on the list, I think....
And the genealogy papers. All the emails and correspondence I saved when that was my great passion - the little notes that found their way into the family tree but still linger in files and notebooks. No. 4, for sure....
Well, you get the drift of how my Bucket List is going to evolve into one great clean-up and when I come to the end of it I will be living a life of great simplicity and satisfaction.
Time to go and change discs on the CD - I have been listening to Louis Armstrong's Golden Jazz while I write. Next in the queue is Nigel Kennedy's Violin Concertos... the Concerto is too long to include, but here is a Kennedy recording that always brings tears.....
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with thanks to Roger, Denise and all their helpers.
