But What Now?

I’m smiling at my title because I’m not supposed to actually answer this question. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, please read my last post here.
I bought an iPod nano last weekend so that I can listen to audiobooks while I walk. Carrying that bulky CD player was becoming a drag. So, [...]

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My partner and I saw Eckhart Tolle today at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. We were mesmerized for 3 hours (minus the 20 minute break in the middle) by his disarmingly honest and real presence. I read The Power of Now years ago when it first came out. Then I listened to mp3s during my long [...]

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Playing Computer Games
Leisure is taking time off. Leisure is doing something you love to do. Leisure is sometimes just escaping to your computer to play games after a long week of taking care of too much, too fast with too few breaks five days in a row. That’s called work, the state of non-leisure. The [...]

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Many of us, myself included, are taking early retirements because we know we have choices and we know we’d like to do something different than what we’re doing in our current jobs. In today’s environment, we’re surrounded by choices, too many choices it often seems.
Once we take the leap and jump off the cliff into [...]

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This is it, you wake up in the morning and you don’t have to go to work. This is not just another day off, this is the real thing. You’ve turned in all of your equipment, including that pesky Blackberry and pager. There is nothing and no one you need to respond to. You are [...]

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So, you’re retired now. All of your co-workers who you have been friends with are still working and your interests are beginning to diverge. Or you’ve been retired so long that you no longer know many of the people you used to work with. You’ve made new friends and moved on.
Or maybe you haven’t. Here’s [...]

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