Anti-Bucket Lists

You Can Be Too Old To Have a Bucket List But You Can Still Hope

You have no money to go anywhere or do anything anyhow

Warren Turner
Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age
3 min readNov 4, 2022

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An old dirty bucket sitting on workshop table
My old worn-out bucket with no list at all Photo by pepe nero on Unsplash

One of my favorite writers, Lee J. Bentch, wrote an excellent article about bucket lists. I will link it below. Be sure and read it.

We are on different pages sometimes, but we laugh a lot and work together on the Crow's Feet podcast committee.

We diverge on bucket lists. Lee has a great one, and I have none. I think they are kind of dumb.

The trend started with a great film, The Bucket List, starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. IMBD synopsis portrays it this way:

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses.

So, they decide to do everything they have always wanted to do but never did. One of them being super rich would be a definite help. Otherwise, who would finance the travel?

Part of the problem is that I am running out of time, not to mention energy. I wouldn't turn down a free Alaska cruise, but the logistics of getting back and forth to the ship would be daunting.

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Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age
Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age

Published in Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age

“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” (Frank Lloyd Wright) Non-fiction pieces, personal essays and occasional poems that explore how we feel about how we age and offer tips for getting the most out of life.

Warren Turner
Warren Turner

Written by Warren Turner

A semi-retired, progressive clergy person who writes personal essays about life at 80 and sometimes tries to be funny. Supporter of all LGBTQ+ issues. He/Him

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