Yes, I have a bucket list, but it's shrinking - not because I've been fulfilling the list, but because I'm more realistic about how little time I have left for everything!
What's left? To sing in a choir when I retire (I work every w/e).
To see more of Canada
Finish some fibre collage/soft sculpture projects
To join the Raging Grannies or other elder activist group
To try Yarn Bombing.
(I would not harm any trees - just make hats for fire hydrants ☺)
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bombing

(hope the link works)

This will do for starters.

Funny, I have no bucket list, Getting by day to day.

I don't have one specifically, consciously drawn up but do have an informal mental list of things I'd like to do and places I'd like to go. Some of it is practical, some is pie in the sky. I mean, if I came into some money such that I could afford the $250K fare, I'd be signing up for a ride on Virgin Galactic (or other commercial space services as the come online). Not likely to happen, though and it's not a high enough priority that I'd go in over my head just to do it.

Others, especially some of my travel goals, are more realistic and likely, esp. given how much Mrs. M and I like to travel. I want to spend a few months touring Europe, which I'm currently seeing in bits and pieces. I want to see more of Asia but with Mrs. M planning to spend time at home in China when she retires, that's pretty likely.

I like to have something I've written professionally published (as opposed to posted online), not because I want it as a career but as a way to say "hey, I really can write". Probably realistic, esp. once I retire and need somethng to fill up the time I currently spend at work.

Not sure that it's really changed much other than as my interests change. I mean, at one time, getting married and having a family would arguably have been on there but that's well under way now.

In the end, there's nothing really extravagant on my "bucket list", just things I know I'd enjoy and would therefore like to do at some point in my life.

Mendalla

I have to find the one I started a few years ago . . . I know a few on it where:

1.  visit New York city

2.  go to Hawaii

3.  go on a cruise

4.  go visit an aunt who lives in a town I've never been to before . . . I did make it to her town, unfortunately too late to see her (went for her funeral) . . . and example of why a person shouldn't put off something too long if it is something they really want to do.  I saw her regularly as she visited here, but I always wanted to see her in her home and have her show me around her community.  I saw, but it was bittersweet.

I will have to resurrect my list and start making plans to do some of the things I'd like to do.  They aren't all travelling plans . . . some don't cost money, but need a commitment made.

Sometimes that is what one has to do . . . and we are hoping the days are many, many, many!

both posts are well said, beloved.

Don't really have a "bucket list", just grateful to be alive and able to do some things as long as I can.  Important to take nothing for granted.

As far as a "wish lists" goes though:

- Would like to visit Costa Rica.  Anyone who has been raves about the country - its great beauty, wildlife, etc.

- Spend about 3 days in the Smithsonian in Washington totally absorbed 

- Wouldn't mind returning to Greece.  Would like to see Meteora, Delphi, Crete, Rhodes and a trip to Ephesus in Turkey.

-  Germany and Austria.

Took my sister and a friend to the Maritimes this past summer and Newfoundland a year ago - experiences I really wanted to share with them.

Otherwise, hope to continue studying whales wherever that takes me, and be able to climb in and out of zodiacs before my body gets too arthritic.

A bucket list is for those that have unfulfilled wishes -and know at a deeper level than intellectual - that their time in this life is limited, and can end in the next moment.

( It becomes important when those grains of sand in the hourglass seem to pick up speed).

A traveller all my adult life, most of my immediate needs involve travelling. This is because jetlag is becoming increasingly difficult -and will mean that soon I'll have to concentrate on my own corner of the world.

Here are some places on my list.

Antarctica.

Scotland again - particularly the village where my Dad grew up.

Israel and Egypt - to follow in Jesus's footsteps......

See the northern lights.

Visit London again - particularly the theatres.

Visit the New England region of the USA - see where the i% live in places with exotic names  from books I've read (Martha's Vineyard!)

See the Grand Canyon again.

(I love the Greek islands and Spain- but it would be too painful to visit without John......)

Already, I know I won't achieve all this -and, in one sense, it won't matter. As long as I focus outwardly as well as inwardly, my life will be enriched.

Gecko, I have also heard that Costa Rica is wonderful. 

NinjaFaery -- did you help in the art project in Cambridge where they covered the bridge in knitting?

Pilgrim, great places, and interesting that some are again...but that others cannot be returned to because the memories were so good, the loss so deep.

Crazyheart, you remind us that things can change

Beloved, New york city is one of myine...even though I didn't realize it, until just recently.

I haven't really built a bucket list.  

I have always wanted to eat a mango fresh from a tree.  I lvoe mango and just imagine how good it would be ripe, like the oranges in florida are at peek and fresh, or the apples in ontario are crisp off a tree.

I would like to go to india sometime to visit coworkers. They are good souls and would be wonderful to experience Diwali with them.

I'd like to travel to Northwest terrorities and northern bC via motorhome or camper and expierence the northern lights from a campground. I'd like to take a ship around the Haida Gwai .

I'd like to be able to hold a grandchild some day, and take one to experience something that makes their eyes sparkle....whatever that might be. 

My one son's bucket list includes:  running with the bulls, bull riding, cliff jumping, free climbing, wingsuit gliding,  (sky-diving - done!)

I'd like to attend an opera some day and appreciate it (which i think means i have to do some homework first), and to attend a wonderful awe-filling broadway show. 

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Though I haven't made a formal list, I do try to take advantage of opportunities when they arise.  I hadn't planned on the opportunity to attend Switzerland, but when I was there, shucks, I was surely go to enjoy it..and that included experiencing a N. European spa (interesting & was free!).  I hadnt planned on attending the DR, but, given the opportunity, I am taking it.  Ditto being in amsterdam (once attended a live-sex show..now that was bizarre..an experience i am not in a hurry to do again). 

Whether it be a new food, a location , a game....I hope I am always ready to "give it a go"

I want to write a poem that is so beautiful and so simple, that anyone reading it remembers it for a while. (I just keep trying… and that in itself is satisfying enough to make it a rewarding thing to seek,)

ooh, that's an awesome one, Mike.

Mike,

As a child, my sister and I would giggle when we overheard my Dad read poetry to our Mum........

Now, like you, I would love to learn how to express myself in poetry.

But, until and if, that time comes, I'll content myself with poems such as this from Mary Oliver........

My immediate bucket list is:

To have some "tea parties" with my two granddaughters

To get to my grandsons ball hockey games more often

To spend more time with my grown children and get to know them more as adults (their lives are busy)

My long term ones are:

To take an art class...this is something I used to love to do when I was young and have completely stopped doing it.

Travel to Turkey, Spain

My bucket list is getting smaller.....does this reflect contentment or stagnation? Hmmmm!

Hi PP: beautiful poem! Thank you!

Anyone with a love of poetry has to give Mary Oliver a read. She's very popular in UU circles though I'm not sure that she's actually UU these days. I discovered her through one of our ministers (who's a fairly decent writer herself). Oliver is quite an acclaimed poet in the States and has a Pulitzer and a National Book Award under her belt.. I have vol. 1 of her collected works (New and Selected Poems, Volume 1) and mean to add more of her collections some day.

A personal favorite of mine (that I have used in services):

Morning Poem by Mary Oliver 
from Dream Work (1986) 

Every morning
the world
is created.
Under the orange

sticks of the sun
the heaped
ashes of the night
turn into leaves again

and fasten themselves to the high branches ---
and the ponds appear
like black cloth
on which are painted islands

of summer lilies.
If it is your nature
to be happy
you will swim away along the soft trails

for hours, your imagination
alighting everywhere.
And if your spirit
carries within it

the thorn
that is heavier than lead ---
if it's all you can do
to keep on trudging ---

there is still
somewhere deep within you
a beast shouting that the earth
is exactly what it wanted ---

each pond with its blazing lilies
is a prayer heard and answered
lavishly,
every morning,

whether or not
you have ever dared to be happy,
whether or not
you have ever dared to pray.

Mendalla

Mendella, also popular in United Church of Canada and Methodist circles.

@ Pinga and Pilgrim-Northern lights are a winter phenomenon. So camping in a camper would not be feasible Pinga.. Regular tours to Yellowknife etc. are held-often for tourists from Japan.

I have an informal list of things to do

Make a quilt I have the material for

Canoe the Nahinni

Hike the Camino

lose 40 pounds

visit Iceland

visit Antartica

visit peru

and it goes on......

I don't really have a bucket list per-say.  I might later on, right now it's more just some major milestones/goals that will eventually lead to things I would like to do.

RIght now there are:

Finish School

Buy a House

Get a Job

Do some travelling with my husband

lol nothing too out there!

Tabitha, my husband was up in yellowknife watching the northern lights in September. It was cool, but it wasn't winter.  

They are usually a winter occurence, but I actually saw them in the Yukon in August. The temperature, however, was definitely more winter-like than summer - it got down to -9 that night (and we were camping in tents)!

They are visible from here sometimes in the summer (and better in the winter).  The summer ones do tend to be fairly weak.

Winter lights are really bright and best.  Yes I have seen them in Edmonton-but they are a real treat when it is dark most of the day and the light dances against the snow. We lived in Inuvik for a year.

So lets just say they are seen more regularly in cold temperatures.

hmm...off the top of me fingertip-equivalents...

learn calculus

live with my wife permanently (getting closer to that)

get to see the Earth from orbit

visit the moon

drink water from the moon, asteroid

experience being another species/sex/etc

GM an organism

have an invention accepted by more than just my immediate family

GM myself

have a shared dream

get paid for dreaming

grok QM myself and not through other people's lenses

have that book published

die a mindful death

experience an EO service

experience a Technocrat service

experience a Scientology service

'walk' through a nanoscape

manipulate something on the nanoscale

ride a light wave

be a rainbow

ride a unicorn

surf the magnetic fields of the sun

walk on the surface of the sun

communicate with the sun

meet more WC people

ressurrect those who have died

get better at mindfulness

live to see:

the first teleportation of human beings

the first colony on the moon/mars/other planet

the first mining operation on an asteroid

First Contact

cancer having it's ass kicked

Canada getting a Gross Happiness Product

the first Stardance

the end of jihadists

NORTHERN LIGHTS!!  That's definitely on my list ... I'm interested to hear about the fall sights your husband enjoyed pinga - I've been just reading up more on this in the past week ... where to go when to go - we're starting into a 5 year cycle of increased activity on the sun which means more lights!! 

Tabitha, I agree if it's a bucket list item it should be in the winter, further north than here, and at a place with little light pollution!

I heard a sad story yesterday of a local 17 year old whose family is trying to raise money so that he can do the items on his bucket list. He's dying of cancer and doctors have recently said that he only has a few months to live. The Make a Wish Foundation is sending him to Hawaii at the end of the week, and there's a few more items that are mostly closer to home that he wants to check off the list before he dies. The thought of a 17 year old with a bucket list is really sad to me.

Somegal, that is really sad.  Hopefully he makes it through his list!

I lucked out years ago and saw them at my family's cottage in Central Ontario (we're in Haliburton County just off Highway 35). Not sure if that was during a peak or not but I imagine it was for them to be that bright that far South.

That said, visiting the North is one of the trips I want to do. We're currently waiting to see when my wife's brother is coming to Canada and then may take an Arctic cruise with him and his wife.

Mendalla

I've seen northern lights while in Labrador, but they would certainly be more colourful in the North.  One trip I would like to add to my wish list is Churchill, Manitoba to see polar bears, and hopefully the lights.  Very expensive trip though.