2012

Week Three

“The Bucket List”

I think most of us have watched the movie the “Bucket List” with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.  So the question posed is,  why do we wait till we are older or terminally ill to create a “Bucket List?”   Shouldnt we every day be working on our “Bucket List” /our passions.    As I reflected on this question I thought of my week and 10 things that I am going to change /focus on for my “Daily Bucket List (DBL).”

1) In the body, mind, and spirit DBL:  To remember always that my body is my temple.  Kick the sugar baby!   By putting healthy, nutritional food into the body (yuk, I cant eat red meat anymore, after reading the book “Skinny Bitch”) to exercise more (lazy bleep)  get off your  bleep by thinking you are a runner and a Yogi because you go to the hot Bikram Yoga studio once or twice a week and run 20 odd miles a week.   To feed my mind by reading  more!  get the light bulbs on sweetheart and read those intellectual, self-discovery/learning books (ooowh, how I want those piano lessons so I can play, Paul McCartney’s, The long and Winding Road…. Lastly, the Spirit, (isnt this the most important one for the DBL?) some folks call it religion or a deity. I chose my God, in 1984  to feed my spirit, (feed it daily girlfriend!)  to energize my live and to follow the words of my favorite Poet, “If I can lift one Robin into it’s nest again then I have not lived my life in vain”  Go Emily!

2) To get off my serious’ness and pretend I have the sexiest, youthful body alive and strut down the catwalk… I hear that song.. “I am too sexy for my…. I need to buy some spikey heels and visit Victoria Secrets!

3) Back to my seriousness – to be GOOD.  (G et O ut O f D ebt)

4) To know what the dash will mean on my tombstone, Julie Margaret Randle Born 195’something   –  until?  What will I be remembered for?  What’s my dash?  – – – – ?

5) To be forgiven for my stupid, bleep mistakes, and my run-away mouth

6) To listen more

7) To forgive more

 8 To become a good wife, better mom, sister and daughter.

9) To give more — I heard and hear $10%  – – and not expect to receive.

10) To Live Life everyday as if it was my last day.  I hear you Dad!

You did it girlfriend!  🙂

~Julie