Slowing Down and Taking Stock

So do you have a bucket list?  This idea is not new I'm sure, but it became mainstream through the movie, "The Bucket List" starring Jack Nickolson and Morgan Freeman about two terminally ill men who head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.  Though I'm not terminally ill...Thank God! I am facetiously declaring myself as going through a mid-life crisis. I've recently started to think about writing my own bucket list.  Obviously, traveling and spending time with family would be a high priority on anyone's bucket list...but I'm afraid that what I need most before I die is slowing down and taking stock of what beautiful things surround me in this world.  It doesn't sound very adventurous, does it?  While my recent quest for reinvention has been quite the challenging process, I've come to realize that living your life with anger, animosity, fear, resentment, or envy drains yourself more than it does the people you hold these feelings towards.  So like the tides of the ocean, I'm letting any and all of these emotions float swiftly out to sea and choosing to surround myself with the people and things that make me feel good.  Plain and simple.  So here's to a new outlook on life.  I can finally let the sad, wounded and misused part of my psyche be laid to rest.  So now it's time to sit down and write that to-do list..

This picture makes me smile, as my dear friend Nolan often referred to our former business adventure in just this particular way...