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Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Moon of the Winter Solstice<\/p>\n
Just back from the former Kinko’s, printing the invitation for Kate’s retirement party, Coming of Age: the Art of Retirement.\u00a0 We have entered the good-bye phase of life.\u00a0 Good-bye to work.\u00a0 Good-bye to cousins, aunts, uncles.\u00a0 Good-bye to homes and states.\u00a0 Good-bye to life.\u00a0 Viewed from the vantage point of youth this must seem a dreadfully depressing, black life stage, in fact the opposite is true.\u00a0 As death comes closer, most of us finally get the message:\u00a0 live in the now.\u00a0 Live today, not in regrets about yesterday or anxiety about the future.<\/p>\n
A calmness comes with this perspective, a realization that this life, this moment has the only juice you’ll ever get.\u00a0 So, we try to ring as much as possible out of the day:\u00a0 Ike’s funeral, Kate’s retirement, the days we have when we’re able to garden and tend the bees, the opportunities we have to work on environmental advocacy, to roam the museum and spend hours talking about art, to eat and talk with friends like the Woolly Mammoths.\u00a0 These are life.<\/p>\n
Corny as it sounds, I always liked the very existential Schlitz ad:\u00a0 You only go round once in life, grab all the gusto you can.\u00a0 Laissez bon temps rouler!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Moon of the Winter Solstice Just back from the former Kinko’s, printing the invitation for Kate’s retirement party, Coming of Age: the Art of Retirement.\u00a0 We have entered the good-bye phase of life.\u00a0 Good-bye to work.\u00a0 Good-bye to cousins, aunts, uncles.\u00a0 Good-bye to homes and states.\u00a0 Good-bye to life.\u00a0 Viewed from the … Continue reading Grab It, Now!<\/span>