Long ago - LONG ago - in the 1980's I made a Bucket List. I put a lot of things on it that I would might not really want to face, like learning Sanskrit.

It was safe because the first item was "Visit Tierra del Fuego." There was no way on my budget and with with busy-ness that that trip was going to happen. Tierra del Fuego, down there at the bottom of South America, was a cork that kept all the genies in the bottle.

One Thursday my boss called me in.

"You have a passport?"

"No."

"Better get one. On Tuesday you are going to Antarctica."

Bless the friendly State Department of those days - they got me one. I was on a plane to Lima, to Buenos Aires... and Ushuaia on Tierra del Fuego.

It was as wonderful as I thought, mountains and gardens, and beyond that Antarctica itself. I have stories, such stories...

The trip uncorked the bottle. The impossible happening made me think that the next item might be possible too. When I got back to town I found a place that taught Sanskrit. That led, in my forties, to a ten-year evening-class march to a Ph.D. in Religious Studies. I met my spiritual teacher and people I still love. The Bucket List enriched my life beyond any prediction, stirred it, changed it, made me much of who I am today (see btwreviews.com for some of the results).

The Bucket List really is an adventure for your soul.