Vacation from Retirement

LIAM RETIRING TO HIS SANDY BEACH

Yes, people who are retired do take vacations just as they did while they worked.  However, this story is about vacationing from retirement. Why would one need to do that?  Over-scheduled?  Me? 

 SOAKING UP THE RAYS

Did not think so.  I want to keep trying new activities, attending events, learning-all that I have written in my retirement mission statement. I chose well and when asked to join other activities, did so.

 KONG BONE, BIRDS, AND MORE

This past school year was very scheduled. I liked it all. I still go by school year. However, some changes happened. I graduated from my 3 1/2 year writing program at NCC. I should explain, I self-graduated. I had no more to say in the classroom venue. I was done. It was perfect for what I needed after retirement, until it was not. So I stopped.March 2012. 
Then in May 2012, our Yoga instructor changed her life and prepared to move to Northport. This eliminated three more activities from my schedule.

Yoga will continue with a different teacher and Meditation and Body Prayer (yes, that is really the name) will be offered again though not as often.  However, in the break from my schedule I now am thinking a bit differently. I like being less scheduled. Having a "free" day. I always have several activities-so I am not laying out like Liam. Some days this year I had four clothing changes in one day- my events and activities were so different. Those runway models have nothing on me- (in terms of a quick change, that is all we are talking about here)

I like Liam's idea. Observe. Be present. Leap (at birds, I would do something of a human equivalent)

LIAM OBSERVING

IN THE MOMENT-RUTH'S ROSE GARDEN

Finding pleasure in the moment.  For Liam, everything is new all the time. For some reason now that my scheduled activities have decreased my reading (book clubs stay on the schedule) and writing have increased.  I have also gained 50 Twitter followers, going near 150.  Am I tweeting more?  Or tweeting better? I started the same month as Oprah. She has nearly 13 million followers.
Paul thinks all my followers are computer generated and tweets are from a machine.  I know Anderson Cooper, Barack Obama and E..L. James (Fifty Shades) and Kristen Johnston are real.
Is it just summer time and the living is...no, it isn't really easy...just changing

New mission statement-I am on vacation from retirement.
We will see where this goes...

JUST BEING

Woof. Woof