Richard Evans is a former college classmate. He has written several books (The Life of the Eagle, The Short Happy Life of Davey Monroe) as mentioned on his weekly newsletter "Toward the Light". He is the president of our graduating college class and a guy of many talents. His newsletter is free and I look forward to it since it often contains very good comments, humorous insights and jokes.
He graciously gave me permission to include this week's edition in this blog. Most of it is about seeing life as a retired person, something that can take time getting used to. Most of us have not spent much of our lives being independently wealthy and have had a job to structure our days and thinking. In retirement, we are our own little business and can structure our time and lives as desired, with the limitation that grocery shopping, auto maintenance, doctors' visits and other aspects of basic living continue.
I have maintained to my wife that wearing jeans and a sweatshirt is formal dress here in vacationland Wisconsin. As a well-dressed and fashion-conscious woman, she tends to disagree but that is the ONLY point of disagreement we have ever had in over 50 years of being together. Read Richard L. Evans's better definition of formal dress while retired. All by itself, it will help you grasp the subtleties of retired life.
Toward The Light
(This format is inferior to Richard's due to extraction from PDF file)
November 7, 2013 Volume 21 Issue 05
Humor and inspiration published weekly (or whenever the editor feels like it)
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Your comments or contributions are welcome.
Contact the editor at revans4@ec.rr.com.
Books by the editor: Life of the Eagle, The Short Happy Life of Davey Monroe
AND THEY ASK WHY I LIKE
RETIREMENT!
author unknown
Question: How many days are there in a week?
Answer: Six Saturdays and one Sunday.
Q: When is a retiree's bedtime?
A: Three hours after he falls asleep on the couch.
Q: How many retirees does it take to change a
lightbulb?
A: Only one, but it might take all day.
Q: What's the biggest gripe of retirees?
A: There is not enough time to get everything done.
Q: Why don't retirees mind being called Seniors?
A: The term comes with a 10% discount.
Q: Among retirees what is considered formal attire?
A: Tied shoes.
Q: Why do retirees count pennies?
A: They are the only ones who have the time.
Q: What is the common term for someone who
enjoys work and refuses to retire?
A: NUTS!
Q: Why are retirees so slow to clean out the
basement, attic or garage?
A: They know that as soon as they do one of their
adult kids will want to store stuff there.
Q: What do retirees call a long lunch?
A: Normal.
Q: What is the best way to describe retirement?
A: The never ending Coffee Break.
Q: What's the biggest advantage to going back to
school as a retiree?
A: If you cut classes, no one calls your parents.
Q: Why does a retiree often say he doesn't miss
work, but misses the people he worked with?
A: He is too polite to tell the whole truth.
Birthdays this week: Billy Graham (95), Morley
Safer (82), Bonnie Rait (64), Courtney Thorne-
Smith (46), Roy Scheider (81), Aaron Brown (65),
Demi Moore (51), Leonardo DiCaprio (39), Calista
Flockhart (49), David Schwimmer (46), Norman
Mineta (82), Anne Hathaway (31), Woopi Goldberg
(64), Jimmy Kimmel (46), Christopher Noth (59).
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences
may be serious. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The highlight of my baseball career came in
Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a
fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and
walked away the crowd booed. BOB UECKER
We have the good fortune, under the blessing of a
benign Providence, to live in a country which we
are proud of for many things, — for its
independence, for its public liberty, for its free
institutions, for its public spirit, for its enlightened
patriotism; but we are proud also,—and it is among
those things we should be the most proud of,—we
are proud of its public justice, of its sound faith, of
its substantially correct morals in the
administration of the Government, and the general
conduct of the country, since she took her place
among the nations of the world. DANIEL WEBSTER
No diet will remove all the fat from your body
because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain
you might look good, but all you could do is run for
public office. COVERT BAILEY
If the world were merely seductive, that would be
easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be
no problem. But I arise in the morning torn
between a desire to improve (or save) the world and
a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes
it hard to plan the day. E.B. WHITE
Life appears to me to be too short to be spent in
nursing animosity or in registering wrongs. We are,
and must be, one and all, burdened with faults in
this world; but the time will come when, I trust, we
shall put them off in putting off our corruptible
bodies; when debasement and sin will fall from us
and only the spark will remain . . . . With this creed,
revenge never worries my heart, degradation never
too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me
too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.
CHALOTTE BRONTE
What can you say about a society that says God is
dead and Elvis is alive? IRV KUPCINET
Toward the Light is published and distributed without charge by Pals, Inc.,
105-D Wayne Drive, Morehead City, NC 28557 - Editor: Richard L. Evans
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Bill
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