Okay...okay, still making dumb technical errors - I deleted the repetition, lol - I didn't think it posted so I did it again...sigh
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Okay...okay, still making dumb technical errors - I deleted the repetition, lol - I didn't think it posted so I did it again...sigh
LOL...!!!
I've noticed that comment posting seems to lag, compared to what I remember during the "good ol' days." I don't know if it's a consequence of a rapidly growing blockchain, or technical changes, or what... but it is disconcerting at times. :O
And, yes, I noticed, but thought nothing of it! :D
Interesting to know you've retired, How's that 'working' for you?! Yeah, I know...childish.
Actually, I met a teacher the other day who asked me to speak to her grade six class and I got excited. You can only stay retired for so long, hence, my writing--well, not that I haven't written my whole life, but not just as my primary avocation.
I take it you're sufficiently comfortable in your finances to escape the commercial formula of making a living that passes for a purposeful life in our culture. Try being Albert Doolittle and see if you still feel relevant. I'm thinking here of William Barr who came out of retirement to be Trump's rubber stamp. Yeah, no one sings odes to dead Justices when they're gone but prostituting yourself for the sake of still trying to be relevant? I guess what I'm saying is I hate the concept of retirement. The way I see it, don't stop doing what you have always done unless of course you absolutely hate it. It would be like giving up surfing because you turned a certain age. Why would you do that unless you could no longer do it, and then that would be tragic. Yeah, Time that subtle thief of youth doesn't steal as much as people surrender. I wish your 'retirement' to be a productive employment, my friend, still vibrant and relative. I recall one speech I gave on a colleague's retirement when I quoted Old King lear who divested himself of cares of state so he could crawl unburdened toward death. Yeah, that was the hit of the party...uh, maybe not, but we needed some balance there and I provided it. Ha ha, I hope you continue to invent and if you consult remember the perils of good ole Willie Barr who just had good intentions, lol
Thank you for the pep talk, Mom... ( LOL ;)
Looking back at my too brief announcement...
... perhaps I could have been clearer. I expect never to "retire" in the all too common sense of "golfer/couch potato." To be sure, I shall surf and rest and vacation, but I never expect to stop pursuing my calling(s) from the Lord... :)
Thank you very much in particular for those good wishes. That is my hope, to be sure.
Among my fond imaginations are designing and building a house and/or a vacation house well suited to my wife's needs, continuing my Greek studies, continuing my writing, and building prototypes of assorted inventions that I've not as yet had time to experiment with.
And of greatest importance in my thinking, I hope particularly to write about my vision for encouraging the church to promote the Good News of the Kingdom of God...
John, it's so good to hear your thoughts. Thanks for your encouragement!
You're very welcome, my friend - I should have known you'd still surf and invent - the only thing I cut back on was jogging on pavement (Abbey, my dog. cut in front of me and I did a face plant on the road) Yeah, now I confine that exercise to grass and dirt paths. Anyway, it's nicer to run through the chilly woods with dogs, lol
I'm all too familiar with "face-plant" syndrome...
I was at a church retreat a few years ago, and got talked into a softball game. Somehow I was under the mistaken impression that I was still "young," and did a face plant while trying to run and catch a ball... :O
Ah, I can't wait for my new body... Please, LORD, come soon!
Ouch! that would hurt diving for a ball and hitting face first into sod. It only took me a month for all the bruising and swelling to go down, lol.