On What's in the Bucket...

 It's an uncomfortable question, being asked what is in one's Bucket List. For the mostly-healthy, I think it might be a bit less so, as they believe they have all this time to get through it. Maybe it makes the responses a little more flamboyant. With braving up this last year and being more open with others about having a combination of conditions which now have led to me being labeled as "terminal" and open to being moved to "palliative" care as no one sees improvement as being likely, I've been asked well over a dozen times if I have a Bucket List.

I do.

Kind of.

It's a work in progress, as I had some pretty crazy things on there, but I've slimmed those down. While there are some far-fetched things on the list (at least in my mind) a lot of it is doable with a bit of help.

So... here's Holly's Bucket List 

PLACES TO GO

    Return to Yellowstone

    Return to Colorado in the autumn and listen to the elk bugle one more time

    Finish the Lower 48 with visiting Oregon, Washington and California

    Finish the 50 states by visiting Hawaii and Alaska and stand on an active volcano

    Visit more of Europe after going back to Wales

    Visit Canada

THINGS TO DO

    Spend a couple weeks going back to storm/tornado chasing

    Record a CD of songs and readings for friends and family

    Become an Inspirational Speaker

    Go fishing and actually catch a fish

    Ride horses one more time (would have to be adaptive)

    Write and publish at least one more book

    Have someone seriously promote the Midnight to Morning trilogy

    Visit the ocean. Often. 

    Go on a Compassion International tour to meet one of my sponsored children 

    Live simply out of a camper so I can travel more

    Overnight in the cabins at Wild Heart Ranch in Oklahoma and help feed the babies and visit the other animals there

PEOPLE TO MEET OR SEE

    As many of my online friends as possible 

    Keep visiting family as much as possible, no matter where they live

    Either Amy Grant or Michael W. Smith (or both)

    Meet and spend time with Selah

    Nicole Nordeman 

    Attend a Secret Garden performance

    Attend more Selah concerts

    Attend as many concerts as possible. Period. Especially smaller acoustic ones of my long list of favored artists

 So there it is... What I'd love to do before these conditions do too much damage or "takes my life prematurely" as most of my specialists tend to say when discussing the long-term. I hope many of them can be completed while I keep praying for better treatment and a chance to cure some of it.