L. Raine

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Impractical Bucket List

Hey you,

While cleaning up my Google Drive I came across all kinds of old, hilarious documents, including an impractical bucket list. Just for kicks and giggles, I’m posting a [slightly edited] list here.

The point to this is to jot down a bunch of stuff as fast as you can with no thought as to whether or not it will or could actually happen. It’s super fun, and I need two lifetimes. In retrospect, I’m surprised to see how many I’ve done already. I didn’t denote every one completed, but added a few fun links for memory’s sake.

Impractical Bucket List

  • Live in a small stone villa in Italy, or cottage near the North Sea in Sweden. Well, Europe in general.

  • Go on an extended tour through South America or parts of Africa. Maybe accompany a medical team as photojournalist.

  • Accompany the design and makeup team on a movie set. Assist. 

  • Dye my hair dark red 

  • Hike in Peru and Patagonia. 

  • Eat at a 5 star restaurant. 

  • Learn Spanish fully, learn French. 

  • Take a walk across Spain

  • Spend a summer delivering flowers in the Bay Area

  • Get married.

  • Become a psychotherapist, or trauma counselor for kids. 

  • Take my family to the coffee farm in Guatemala, nestled on top of the mountain with mists and a view for company.  Drink hot coffee morning and night. 

  • Live in large city with the ROJ

  • Live in a coastal town

  • Become a painter of watercolors and oil paintings.

  • Have a garden/conservatory/studio

  • Write a book. Write more books!

  • Grow a garden

  • Own my dream house

  • Sleep on a rooftop

  • Wear a backless dress to a gala. 

  • Swim under a waterfall

  • Vacation in Hawaii

  • Own a sailboat, learn to sail. Not necessarily in that order. 

  • Take a trip around the world. 

  • Sing confidently in public.

  • Have a curly haired little girl and little boy. Hopefully not at the same time. 

  • Adopt two kids.

  • Teach a kid or adult to read. 

  • Own a deep red velvet blazer

  • Spend a year studying in South America, or Norway

  • Own the perfect pair of sandals. Dunno what they are, but I want them. 

  • Ride horseback on a beach, at dusk

  • Explore Boston

  • Take a solo trip 

  • Meet a hero.

  • Bob my hair

  • Learn ballroom, swing, and Latin dancing. 

  • Grow heaps of roses, peonies, and poppies. 

  • Live where lilacs grow

  • Sit beside a celebrity on a plane (probably forget to wear deodorant that day).

  • Swim in the buff in Lake Como

  • Work in a vineyard for awhile

  • Use wallpaper in my house

  • Live in a brick home (I now live in a stucco home, does that count?)

  • Walk through parts of the Black Forest in Germany

  • Take my husband to Antigua to laugh at the fountain

  • Own the red dress of my dreams

  • Establish a mentor ship program to help kids begin to build their lives (didn’t establish this one, but working on growing it).

  • Successfully wear, and like, lipstick. Done the first, but not the second. 

  • Take a friend on an all-expense paid trip of their dream

  • See Hamilton, Phantom of the Opera, and Les Mis on Broadway


Oh, there’s so much more I could add to this. There’s so much to do! Life is full and well.

Clearly I will need adventure buddies. Who’s in?

Ciao,

L. Raine


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