We often say how fast time goes. And that it seems to go faster. Which it can\u2019t do. But there are things that, when they come around in our lives again, make it feel as if time has indeed past quicker than before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It might be when it\u2019s time to fill our weekly pill boxes again. Or when it\u2019s take-the-refuse-out day again. Or time to go to the pharmacy for a repeat of your chronic meds. And when it\u2019s time for your annual medical, a year has gone by!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so it is that we wake up and find that life appears to have passed by. That time seems less. That all those things we were going to do, might never happen. Because there won\u2019t be time left\u2026. time left with enough health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I believe in finding joy in the very small things in life. Like stopping to pick mulberries while paddling up my river on Wednesday. And fortuitously seeing a Giant Eagle Owl, perched high up in a tree, up the same river the day before. A rare experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not all joyful experiences in life need money. Most don\u2019t. We might just not know how to find them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That brings me to looking ahead at being \u2018retired\u2019, and what are we going to do with it, with ourselves, with our minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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