The morning after the retirement party — an extract from The Retiree’s Path
The morning after the retirement party has its own particular silence. What has been misplaced is not the work itself — it is the structure of identity the work provided.
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The relationship that retirement redraws — an extract from The Retiree’s Path
The marriage that worked perfectly well for thirty-five years of working life began to show different textures in the first year of retirement.
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At seventy — an extract from The Retiree’s Path
At seventy, Confucius said, he could follow what his heart desired without transgressing what was right. This is not a description of retirement as cessation. It is a description of what becomes possible.