Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
I have a long list of places I don't want to revisit. And no list at all of places I want to visit. I call that content. I know people who would call it boring.
I would also call it coming to terms with my life.
I have spotted a photo I want to take, and I'm figuring out the details regarding how to do it, given my limitations. Working out the logistics and timing is far from boring, and I am looking forward to pulling it off.
I think we have to have interests and enthusiasms to keep us focused and going. And I have those, but none call for long trips to places I don't care about visiting.
I view that as noise, and silence is more valuable these days than in those that have gone before.
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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