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Thank you to both of you for your kind words…as you can probably surmise, I do enjoy using Free Republic as a forum to sharpen my writing skills.

For about the last 15 years, I write things about my life (trying mostly to keep it somewhat unidentifiable, for obvious reasons) and I save text snippets of what I write to a folder, so I have a lot of of my experiences in life written down. I’ve been writing down as a bulwark against the day that I may have trouble remembering them, which is already happening… But that’s OK. That’s the way life is… :-)

I often write long posts, that most people don’t read, and I am not offended in any way by that (although some people do get a bit negative about it) but although brevity is considered to be elemental to good writing, I ignore that unless the situation calls for it.

I have a completely average, normal, and comfortable life. I retired almost exactly a year ago from a high pressure, demanding and rewarding job, with awesome people, at a hospital I worked at for 38 years.

I cannot express how wonderful it is to be retired.

Today is a Monday. I am not in my car driving to work, or at my desk working.

I made a cup of coffee, set out peanuts for my Blue Jay friends, did a few rounds of Tai Chi, watched the birds, questioned my lovely wife about her Garden of Eden, and let her describe all the things she had done, is doing, and what is coming next as the Summer progresses. It was just...fantastically relaxing.

Quite a contrast to what I was doing, which was pretty stressful because things could go sideways at any second and affect hundreds of my co-workers and patients, and I would be the point person for getting the issue resolved. I miss the people and patients greatly, but I surely do not miss that stress.

I am going to start a vanity thread after I finish this post about my wonderful backyard paradise, which is exactly 1/4 acre of a fenced in Garden of Eden...:). Sometimes I believe that I am an exceptionally average person, which makes the telling of stories about my life just wonderful to me.

Wonderful, not because I am exceptional or special, really, but in the context that there are millions, if not billions of people who enjoy many of the same things I do, in the same way, and...we are not rich (well...perhaps others might consider me as such who have less money than I do, but that is human nature. I harbor exactly no resentment towards someone like Elon Musk...I have what I want in life.

I do hope someday soon to write a book...nobody may read it, but it will be mine!