I don’t believe in “bucket lists”. This may surprise people. From the outside, to some people it may seem as if I live my life running around checking item after item off my “bucket list”. · Fly in a helicopter – check · Go to a presidential inauguration – check · Float in the Dead Sea - check · Yada · Yada · Yada But I do not do those things to COMPLETE them. I don’t do them to check them off, to finish them before I die. I do them because I am ALIVE. I do them because they are opportunities, events, ideas that present themselves, and I grab them. I relish them. I take time to enjoy them. Don’t get me wrong – I love lists! I like shopping lists, packing lists, to do lists... But see, those are lists of things that need to be completed – to be done. I take pleasure in crossing the items off as I complete them. But my life is not a list – it is an evolving experience that I get to be a