Jen at Tripping Through Treacle has inspired me to rewrite my bucket list.  Instead of focusing on loss, I can rethink my aspirations.  I love it!  This is a perfect activity for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis awareness month.

Actually, I feel like I’ve just had a bucket list year.   Thanks to my husband’s determination and constant willingness to overcome any challenge, this year I have been able to:

• travel across the continent and experience new places
• reunite with an old friend and meet new ones
• start painting
• learn photography
• have my work published (no money yet – that will be on the new list)
• envision new possibilities.

In a few months, I turn 60.  Given that my health is a constant concern, I cannot hope to travel to exotic places, or participate in extreme sports, or even grace the boards as I might have wished for in former years, however; I still have dreams.

I aspire to:

• publish a book of poetry
• finish the book I am writing
• take the grandchildren on one of our journeys
• spend more time in nature
• write a children’s book for each of my grandchildren
• earn an income from my creative work
• walk everyday
• spend the winters in Arizona
• make a difference

Life changes, it’s inevitable.  We can hold onto our dreams – at a cost – or reshape them.

I am choosing to believe that happiness is always an option.