Hey you,

While cleaning up my Google Drive I came across all kinds of old, hilarious documents, including an impractical bucket list. Just for kicks and giggles, I’m posting a [slightly edited] list here.

The point to this is to jot down a bunch of stuff as fast as you can with no thought as to whether or not it will or could actually happen. It’s super fun, and I need two lifetimes. In retrospect, I’m surprised to see how many I’ve done already. I didn’t denote every one completed, but added a few fun links for memory’s sake.

Impractical Bucket List

• Live in a small stone villa in Italy, or cottage near the North Sea in Sweden. Well, Europe in general.

• Go on an extended tour through South America or parts of Africa. Maybe accompany a medical team as photojournalist.

• Accompany the design and makeup team on a movie set. Assist. 

• Dye my hair dark red 

• Hike in Peru and Patagonia. 

• Eat at a 5 star restaurant. 

• Learn Spanish fully, learn French. 

• Take a walk across Spain

• Spend a summer delivering flowers in the Bay Area

• Get married.

• Become a psychotherapist, or trauma counselor for kids. 

• Take my family to the coffee farm in Guatemala, nestled on top of the mountain with mists and a view for company.  Drink hot coffee morning and night. 

• Live in large city with the ROJ

• Live in a coastal town

• Become a painter of watercolors and oil paintings.

• Have a garden/conservatory/studio

• Write a book. Write more books!

• Grow a garden

• Own my dream house

• Sleep on a rooftop

• Wear a backless dress to a gala. 

• Swim under a waterfall

• Vacation in Hawaii

• Own a sailboat, learn to sail. Not necessarily in that order. 

• Take a trip around the world. 

• Sing confidently in public.

• Have a curly haired little girl and little boy. Hopefully not at the same time. 

• Adopt two kids.

• Teach a kid or adult to read. 

• Own a deep red velvet blazer

• Spend a year studying in South America, or Norway

• Own the perfect pair of sandals. Dunno what they are, but I want them. 

• Ride horseback on a beach, at dusk

• Explore Boston

• Take a solo trip 

• Meet a hero.

• Bob my hair

• Learn ballroom, swing, and Latin dancing. 

• Grow heaps of roses, peonies, and poppies. 

• Live where lilacs grow

• Sit beside a celebrity on a plane (probably forget to wear deodorant that day).

• Swim in the buff in Lake Como

• Work in a vineyard for awhile

• Use wallpaper in my house

• Live in a brick home (I now live in a stucco home, does that count?)

• Walk through parts of the Black Forest in Germany

• Take my husband to Antigua to laugh at the fountain

• Own the red dress of my dreams

• Establish a mentor ship program to help kids begin to build their lives (didn’t establish this one, but working on growing it).

• Successfully wear, and like, lipstick. Done the first, but not the second. 

• Take a friend on an all-expense paid trip of their dream

• See Hamilton, Phantom of the Opera, and Les Mis on Broadway

Oh, there’s so much more I could add to this. There’s so much to do! Life is full and well.

Clearly I will need adventure buddies. Who’s in?

Ciao,

L. Raine

Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash