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First of all, please click on https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210113908 . I am desperate for affirmation.
Anyway .....
am 65 years old and figure I have 10 maybe 15 years left. I already don't get around without at least a cane and sometimes a walker
or wheelchair. Now before you go thinking that this is some dark morbid thread, I am trying to figure out some of the things I should do with the time I have left. A bucket list, if you will. And if you won't, well that's ok too.
I am not a fully qualified DUer in that I have not donate lately, being that I the wife and I are on disability.
so I cannot to a regular poll, so bear with me ...
1) read the classics (the ones I haven't already read - which is some of them), philosophy. and history
2) Begin a campaign for the oxford comma
3) go skydiving
4) spend my time going to the doctor
5) See the Grand Canyon
6) Dance on Donald Trump's grave
7) Become a regular Abraham Lincoln impersonator / interpreter
8) All of the above - except skydiving- in lieu of which I can dance on Donald Trump's grave again
9) Other .....
PatrickforO
(14,602 posts)Great thing to have on a bucket list.
voteearlyvoteoften
(1,716 posts)irisblue
(33,047 posts)You are clipped to an instructor. You leap together. One of the best moments of my 30s.
yellowdogintexas
(22,288 posts)I just got round to seeing it in 2016, on a visit to my daughter in AZ Mind you she has lived out there for 10 years and we finally got to the canyon .... It's worth it.
Nac Mac Feegle
(972 posts)Make sure that you have some time. Find a spot away from the crows on the edge. Then just sit back and look, take in everything around you. Let your self "experience" it. Feel the beauty and enormity of it.
It's an almost religious experience.
Then go out the East exit, go to the Historic Trading Post at Cameron, and have a Navaho Taco.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)hunter
(38,340 posts)I mock the grammar police.
Yep, read a few classics, mostly because I minored in English, not that any of that stuck. (I was much more obsessed with Evolutionary Biology and computers.)
Haven't been sky diving, but I have been bungee jumping.
I've been a horribly non-compliant patient at times, more times than I care to confess. I don't remember much about maybe half my E.R. visits. (Meds suck. They are expensive too. The alternative is worse.)
I'm Abraham Lincoln's height and weight, so maybe.
Where do you suppose Trump will be buried? Maybe in exile? Should I renew my passport?