This is Life, Phase 3.
“Retired” is a term to avoid as that frames each day in terms of what life, now, is not. Identity is not former job titles.
This blog is for me to consciously embrace every day of Life, Phase 3. Each day matters.
I grew up in Phase 1. I’m grateful for good people and many privileges, including stable parents and a post-secondary education that made it easy to sell my time in Phase 2.
Phase 3 is a time to grow, unconstrained by work. These are the “Go-Go” years (3.1); health issues and normal aging lead to the “Slow-Go” (3.2) then “No-Go” (3.3) years.
I spent my childhood in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, then lived, as a young adult, in Manchester, England, and Aberdeen, Scotland. I’ve lived the majority of my life in Minneapolis, Minnesota; I’m grateful I’ve been with my husband, Dwight, for most of that time.
Place and Living, the two root categories in this website’s taxonomy, are evolving with the journey.
Traveler, your footprints are the only road, nothing else. Traveler, there is no road; you make your own path as you walk. As you walk, you make your own road, and when you look back you see the path you will never travel again. Traveler, there is no road only a ship’s wake on the sea.…
The moon and sun are eternal travelers. Even the years wander on. A lifetime adrift in a boat, or in old age leading a tired horse into the years, every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. From the earliest times there have always been some who perished along the road. Still I…
Tom Wilson, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.