“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
Franz Kafka
Caution: retirement may be short of you’re spending your days coughing up the gunk your employer let you breathe in for decades.
secmilchapsays
Seriously tho’ -- I’m a (mildly) disabled veteran. The VA’s InHome Visit Program needs volunteers to converse and befriend these homebound victims of the USA’s imperial ambitions. Since we go into others’ homes, the bars kinda high, but you can’t pass it if you don’t apply to your nearest VAMC.
flexilissays
As retirement age approached I wondered how I would fill the time. Now after 11 years of retirement, I wonder how I ever had time to work. For one thing, there a million blogs to keep up with!
Nimal Gunatilleke says
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
Franz Kafka
robertbaden says
And you might become a big bug. Maybe even a spider…
Lofty says
Caution: retirement may be short of you’re spending your days coughing up the gunk your employer let you breathe in for decades.
secmilchap says
Seriously tho’ -- I’m a (mildly) disabled veteran. The VA’s InHome Visit Program needs volunteers to converse and befriend these homebound victims of the USA’s imperial ambitions. Since we go into others’ homes, the bars kinda high, but you can’t pass it if you don’t apply to your nearest VAMC.
flexilis says
As retirement age approached I wondered how I would fill the time. Now after 11 years of retirement, I wonder how I ever had time to work. For one thing, there a million blogs to keep up with!