TheBanyanTree: Snow Moon

[Robin Tennant-Wood]

I took early retirement from the uni last year. After Roger died I found
that I couldn't hold a full time academic job in Canberra as well as run
the bookshop in Braidwood and keep our 15 acre property under some sort of
control, so something had to go. Now I've officially 'retired', I find
myself on two local community committees and requests to join a third.

There are all sorts of other opportunities as well, though. I finally get
to read a lot of novels - and running a bookshop I'm certainly not short of
reading material - and I've taken up golf again after a 20 year absence.
All good.

Enjoy yourself Dale. You've earned it!

cheers

Robin

On 29 February 2016 at 01:15, Russ Doden <russ.doden at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had to chuckle when I read your post Dale.  Yeah, it's hard to believe
> how many "requests" for our time come forward when we "retire"  I still say
> retirement is just getting new tires so we can go faster!  The big
> difference is that we get to chose what takes our time and it if isn't fun,
> walk away!
>
> Yeah, we have to slow down a bit too, and make allowances.  That sometimes
> is the hardest thing.  I may "feel" younger now than when I was in my 40's
> but my body sure isn't!  Things I used to do all day now I take all day to
> do, and on a bad day don't get done, period.  As you said, patience and
> wisdom comes from learning how to adapt and overcome!  As I often tell my
> students now, knowledge comes from experience, wisdom comes from bad
> experiences!
>
> Have fun picking and choosing your new "opportunities"!
>
> Yeah, I hope they do something to those Yobo's.  Being a volunteer
> naturalist at a nature center, I get particularly upset when someone does
> something like those clowns did.
>
> Peace,
> Russ
>
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