September, 2017 Bar Bulletin
by Karen Sutherland
I had an interesting conversation with another artist recently when we were both working at an arts event. She is curating a project that includes artists’ bucket lists and wanted me to add mine to it. She was disappointed that I don’t
have one.
I was curious about how others view bucket lists, so I turned to Psychology Today for some expert insight. It seems that bucket lists can either serve as goals to help motivate people to accomplish things or imply a “check off the
boxes” approach to life.1 One of the psychologists described a more traditional perspective on theories of happiness...