‘If you want to be happy for the rest of your life,’ keep a bottomless bucket list

My niece Elizabeth called the other day to see if I wanted to help her look for a wild Brown’s peony in the woods. It wasn’t exactly missing or anything, but she’d never seen one, and it was on her bucket list. Elizabeth is a botany geek.

I’m always up for a good scavenger hunt. The pursuit is the thing: the sharpening of the senses, the possibility of discovery!