Another Bucket List Item

"  Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” 

~ A. A. Milne

A while back I wrote about an item that if I had a bucket list ,would be on it. 

I have always wanted to be able to just pick up a guitar and play.

 Just well enough to strum a few chords and sit with friends and sing folk music.

My friend,and fraternity brother Doug Smith responded to this particular musing noting as he put it"David,you still have music in you!".

It's true.

I do.

Yesterday as I was waiting to head out on my last run of the day,listening to the radio, I caught myself daydreaming about yet another bucket list line item.

This one also is based in music.

My bucket list ( if I had one) would not have a whole lot on it at this point.

I have no great desire to travel, jump out of an airplane,scale Mt. Everest or anything like that.

However, if money were no object and if I were to throw all of my normal self deprecating issues aside I do have one bucket list fantasy item.

I would love to hire a voice coach.

I would want to work with him (or her) for a year or more in preparation for a concert to be given as a birthday present to myself.

A one man show called Songs of David (sounds biblical).

I would also hire a choreographer,(no dancing, just for staging) as well as whoever else I might need for sets,direction , production etc.

While I know I couldn't fill Carnegie Hall, it would be in a venue that held a couple of hundred people.

I would invite all of my friends, family, loved ones and colleagues.

I have a fairly good start on my set list in mind.I have an opening number,and a pretty good feel for a program that would be meaningful, powerful and memorable I also have an awesome finale as well as the obligatory encore number.

I even have a very special ensemble number in mind.

I know, it sounds crazy and completely out of character for me as well as way out of my comfort zone.

Still, if you are making a bucket list ,as the saying goes,Go Big or Go Home!

So why not?

I think I will just let this particular piece of fruit just hang out there a bit and see if it ripens.