When one thinks of a “bucket list,” a person might consider a special trip or cruise, a new experience (like zip-lining), or an opportunity to meet someone special (a movie star, a professional athlete, or someone from your past).
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| Old and very worn shirt... |
My bucket list is in my head and may change from week to
week. However, one of the things on the list included designing a
top that was similar to one of my oh-so-favorites tops—which is now only
wearable when doing garden or yard work.
Because I hated to give it up and because I could not find
anything like it to replace it, I bought some material and drew up a pattern
using my old shirt. I could not find any similar material, so bought something
completely different in colors I liked (earth-tones). I like the longer tops
with flared bottoms now in style, so I dug out shear curtain material from my
sewing chest with intentions of making the bottom part of my shirt into
something “fun.”
Today, I checked this project off my bucket list. Am I proud
of it? No. It will hang in my closet; I may never wear it. If I do wear it, I
expect the best compliment I will receive is, “Interesting…” My husband will
look at me and since we’ve been married for over 45 years, I will read his mind
when it says, “You’re not wearing that are you?”
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| New but wearable? |
I think I’ll wear it to my writer’s group. They already know
I’m a little peculiar.
When searching the internet on “bucket lists,” I found The
Christian Bucket List: 50 Things To Do Before Heaven, by Joe McKeever. Big
items on the list included: visit the Holy Land, memorize an entire chapter of
the Bible. Some of the easier-to-do items included: join a choir, learn to
pray better, become a person of good humor and frequent laughter, find someone
from your past and apologize, tell everyone you love that you love them, plant
some flowers or a tree, get saved.
Most of these things are simpler than designing and putting
together a shirt. I’d speculate that I will also get a lot more personal
satisfaction from any one of them.
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