Kick Your Bucket List

In the true spirit of minimalism, today we are going to talk about paring down your bucket list.  Many of us have one, a list of maybe/maybe not attainable goals or places we have heard or read that we MUST see.  Perhaps you already have a few checked off.  I think to myself, DANG! Another list I have to keep track of?  Do I find that some anguish swirls around in me if I don't check things off from time to time?  

Let's kick that bucket.

Goals are good.  They keep us from stagnancy.  Promote forward thinking.  But does a bucket list, which may likely never see completion, prevent us from seeing today as an accomplishment?  I think perhaps it may.  

Earlier this week, I was weeding in my yard, mostly to prevent people from calling to see if our house had been foreclosed on (it hasn't).  I cleared a decent section of the flower bed, sat on the front porch with a nice pilsner glass of local brew, and admired my small accomplishment.  My house faces northwest, so I enjoyed the evening performance of the sun setting on a broad Texas sky in the spring.   Mentally, I proposed THIS should be on my bucket list of sorts, because I am fully appreciating right now.   

Sure, planning to see Paris in the spring is nice, too, but if I am ruminating over a written list of stuff I haven't done yet, will I be enjoying now and what I have done?  And experienced?  I stuck my face in my lavender plants that are pondering their spring rejuvenation and inhaled their aromatic gifts to me.  I planted them after my mother died to remind me of her, as she DID experience Paris in the spring and adored it.  I thought, check!  Today was a day well-lived.  

How about we weed our bucket list, and enjoy what today has brought us?  You breathed air today, and probably made a difference to the planet in some way.  Those seem like great things to check off as done. 

And go plant some lavender.