Opus 2026-128: Retired Occupations

How do I spend my time now that I’m retired?

Much of my time to be spent in what might be called meditation.  It is part of my worship.  Some synonyms for such meditation would be pondering, contemplating, musing, considering, introspection, thinking.  I will find myself on the front porch at all hours of the day, looking at creation and sensing the presence of God.  It is glorious.

I also do some writing.  That is what this is.  I have a lot of ideas that float through my mind and no one to try them out on so I submit them to the ether world.  It is almost like a pressure that keeps building up and needs an outlet.  My friends and family don’t realize how much nonsense they are spared.

There are a decreasing number of basic maintenance things that I do around the house such as changing air filters.  Those are decreasing partly from my decrease in ability but even more so because my wife thinks I can’t do it or isn’t willing to wait for me to do it.  Every once in awhile I tell myself I need to do things like dust my bookshelves and sometimes I even do it.  Then I ask myself, “Why?”  I really don’t care about dust on my bookshelves or ceiling fans.  It never bothers me.  It doesn’t trip me or cause me pain.  I never hear the books complaining.  Live and let live.

I read and take notes on what I read.  I am not sure what I am going to do with the notes but a part of me is sure that I will need the information some day.

I play with my grandchildren.

I talk to my crazy friend on the phone.

I listen to monologues.  I try to keep out of the way of these things but there is only so much you can do.  Other people in my life don’t have the benefit of writing.  They must speak it for it to be real.

I would agree with the other old folks who say that they don’t know how they got everything done when they were working.  I wonder if eternity will involve having lists and actually using them or whether we will just develop the gift of forgetting.

Ask me on the other side.

homo unius libri