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The Process
The Process Back to school
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 08:04PM by Kris
Two weeks of holiday (can't say Christmas in the presence of school talk) zipped by no matter how hard we tried to prolong it. A sampling of free times to come after June 8, 2007. Sweet. We worked a lot over the break but the difference in doing even tedious jobs on your own time as opposed to time at Work is vast and, from what society wants us to know, extremely under-rated. We're the kind of people who will always have projects and, I hesitate to use the word, hobbies to keep us interested and interesting. Life, by our definition, is a balance of work and fun; we've practiced and think we have it down. There is much to learn about the process of being retired from our experiences as they occur and those of our friends/family advisors who paved the way. A recently retired teacher told us she was exhausted the first week of school, her first non-teaching week in 30 Septembers. She slept like she'd been deprived of zzzz's for years. When she felt rested she experienced renewed energy and she's been a dynamo since.
Retirement sounds like the promised land three days into our first week back.
mOOners
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