I finally am able to create a bucket list. Someday, I may write about why I was not able to before.
This entry is about the #1 item that made the list. As of now, I have only three items on my BL.
BL #1: Spread my younger brother’s ashes in Colorado where he loved living.
It’s logisitically complicated. Very complicated.
I got it planned for June 6 – June 10. Did that yesterday.
I added to the complexity by adding my Sister’s ashes to the trip. Dawn’s ashes are sitting in a urn near my office and I refuse to pass the problem of what to do with them to my children. Her children passed it to the youngest in Dawn’s clan and Cheri passed the burden to me.
I’m not pissed off about the fact I have her ashes, but I refuse to kick that can to Adam, Johanna, Chris, or Eric. Serena would do a job, but it’s not what I want done.
Brian’s ashes are in the possision of his step-daughter, Jennifer Kent who lives in Huntsville, AL. She does not have the financial means to spread them in CO. She is an interested mid-age lady who behaves like Brian and I can’t figure out how that happened.
Brian and Dawn would be very happy sharing their final resting place in the outdoors of CO at the foothills of the rockies. They were close in life and will be close in their final resting place. (I may plan to join them if I like the place.) Eric Harrold’s ahses were placed there two days ago.
This plan is complicated and it is taking my best project manager skills to pull it off.
I asked Adam to help and he has agreed. I’m asking Jennifer Kent to fly to CO, meet me there and we both do the spread routing – her doing Brian, me doing Dawn.
I’m doing a random act of kindness to cover Jenniffer’s cost so that money would not be an hurrdle we could not overcome fast. I don’t have the luxury of time to wait for her to have the money and for the planents to align again.
I’m been working on this wish for 10 years. And I’m going to try to get it done between June 6 – 10.
I know, I don’t need this on my plate now with other shit putting demanda on my energy and life. Well, the Wilbur in me refuses to give up on this one item that I’m passinate about.
This is going to be one of those posts that I’ll have to update to complete the story.
It’s my blog and I’m going to do it my way! Leave me alone! (that’s a quote from a Billy Jole song that Rita loves – “It’s my life, leave me alone!”). It’s also my new attitude.
In closing:
A sad closing for today. Billy Jole had to cancel the rest of his tour. That means Rita and I (or my designated subitute) will not be seeing him (and Rod Stewart) live on July 5 in Pittsburgh.
Looks like we will get refunded the biggest part of the boat-load of money the tickets cost. I am thinking of seeing if we want to use the hotel resversations for something else. We have July 4 and 5 reserved in a hotel cansio in downtown Pittsburgh.
More on this topic later, too.
BL#1 is going to be an intense 5 days!
stay tuned….