Bucket List

I’m not too enthusiastic about starting a bucket list.  It fits, in my scheme of things, into the same category as planning and goals and resolutions, all of which get more coverage than they deserve in the first month of each New Year.  Who needs another item on that list of things which may never be achieved? Not I.

However recent events have prompted me to consider a 2017 bucket list and what I might include on this list.  According to popular belief, bucket lists comprise of those goals you want to achieve, dreams you want to fulfill and life experiences you wish to experience before you die.

Unlike Albion Gidley Singer, the narrator in Kate Grenville’s Dark Places, whose hope – before he reluctantly abandoned the scheme - was to know every fact in the world before he died, I am aiming for a goal which is more visible and hopefully more achievable. A goal which can be dealt with swiftly here; clear up the clutter. This single goal also deals with the dreams because there are days when the clutter clear-up takes on nightmarish proportions.  And so I am left with life experiences, many of which seem to involve some sort of dare-devil physical activity.

You will not find me participating in any of the following: parasailing, swimming with sharks, snowboarding, skydiving and getting a tattoo.  I look at some of those activities and they look more like death wishes than a life experience.

So here is my entry for the January Bucket List:  visit ACCA – the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

Keep it simple.  Keep it achievable.

Melbourne cityscape              January 2015 file photo