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Get over ordinary.
Ordinary is all around me. I’m ordinary. What I know is ordinary. Yet somehow I have a goal- a retirement wish– to make my retirement lifestyle outrageous. Where did that come from? Was it always there but suppressed in order to fit in at work or in my community. Was it inspired subliminally from something I read? I don’t know and I suppose it doesn’t really matter. The question is: what do I do about it?
I’ve been spouting off about my goal for some time now. I have danced around the definition of outrageous. I postured about making my retirement outrageous but the simple fact remains that my retirement lifestyle is pretty ordinary. No world tours! No life changing contributions to charities! Nobody that will remember me or anything I did as extraordinary- let alone outrageous. [continue reading…]
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The Class of ’46
Talk about outrageous retirement lifestyle. My wife and I stumbled upon something remarkable yesterday. On the way back from our personal trainer we stopped for breakfast. We had heard good things about this restaurant but we had never managed to get there because it’s in the next town over and a bit out of our way. It’s a small place and we expected it to be empty by mid morning but when we entered, we found a boisterous party of older men filling a large table down the center of the space. It felt like we were entering a private party but the waitress seated us and soon we were looking over a tempting menu and sipping excellent coffee. We joked about the men who seemed like they were having a great time and how they made us feel like kids but we didn’t know the half of the story. [continue reading…]
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