I just want to:
- Build a custom shower with two heads
- Raise a dog from puppy till death
- Need to buy appreciating assets for tax-purposes
- Build a desk my great-grandchildren fight over
- Learn how to cook more french-food
- Write The Great American Novel
- Have a third child unexpectedly
- Become fluent in Spanish
- Not need anyone
- Be a better son/brother/boyfriend
- Have a non-traditional wedding that people talk about for years
- Build another boat
- Change the people I come into contact with
- Die with a Wikipedia page. A long one.
- See how long I can live
- Have a death I both desire and deserve
- Read every damn great book ever
- See humans on Mars. Maybe I’ll die there
- Not be hated by my Ex’s for what I could have been
- Learn Fencing
- See the Singularity
- Go to Polo Matches
- Mentor people
- Change the world
- Finally poach and egg without cheating
- Live in France for a time
- Let those I love know I love them and I would die for them
- See the people of North Korea free
- Own a Lamborghini
- Collect Porsches
- Collect Watches
- Start my watch company
- Pay off a few mortgages
- Surf-Fish 500 more times
- Be my favorite author’s favorite author
- Be a prized poet
- Watch my kids in a play
- Learn guitar
- Live on the beach
- Have a pied-a-terre in the city
- Go to Mexico with my Dad in “the beater truck”
- Be a wonderful Uncle
- Save lives
- Be a philanthropist
- Write the book I am most afraid to (It’s either a flop or a classic)
- Record that 808’s and Heartbreak mixtape
- Put my poetry on soundcloud to music
- Release a book of short stories
- Win a Pullitzer or National Book Award or Both
- Do a commencement speech
- Drop in on a writing class at Columbia
- Honor the Memory of Marina Keegan
- Meet Jay-Z
- Live at the Four Seasons
- Buy shoes for kids too poor to have them
- Get purple silk sewn inside that beat brown leather number I travel with
- Fly private with someone I admire
- Honor my father’s memory till the day I die
- Let me mom know she is unreal awesome
- Build a personal library that endures
- Be a hero to children
- Treasure my keepsakes
- Grow a real beard – okay, perhaps a bit too far-fetched
- See my novel ‘A Terran Spring’ on the silver screen – take my mom as my date to the premier
- Sell a company I own
- Be larger than life – always
- Be humble – like Bunny taught me, always
- Save something historical for posterity’s sake
- Sail thousands of miles
- Believe in G-d
- Fight for things that matter – and win
- Speak for those without a voice
- Make my sister cry from happiness
- Visit a few graves I never did
- Honor those who made me who I am
- Grow my own capers
- Return to somewhere I miss and be glad it ended
- Be thankful for regrets
- Get better with age
- Do a couple more things I fear to see if it’s worth it
- Be my lover’s hero
- Create a handwritten list of all my favorite movies for my grandchildren to watch when they are older
- Produce an episode of ‘Bubbas’ – if still deemed worthy by 35
- Own a great telescope
- Garden
- Be a great dad
- Always accept myself
- Embrace change with romantic curiosity
- Witness a miracle
- Be content
- Stay hungry
- Catch the perfect Halibut and kill it, saying a real Native American prayer as I do
- Invest in a restaurant – not a crappy suburban one
- Never forget how lucky I am to be me
- Never apologize for who I am
- Own a cat (I hate cats – but so did Papa [Hemingway])
- Discover something
- Be funny, always
- Continually mature
- Go pee right now
Edit: [post publish – same day night] – just counted and there are exactly 100 things on this list…how beautifully eerie.
Lawrence:
Quite a bucket list and I suspect the last item on the list was checked off.
Really enjoyed the list.
xo Dad
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