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Retirement Talk for Boomers, Seniors, and Retirees
by Del Lowery
Retirement Talk is an audio podcast intended to help people who are retired, or considering retirement, to examine their own lives. We will consider retirement in all its facets - not just financial. We want to examine our own lives and those of others, who seem to have looked closely, made choices, and are pretty happy with the consequences We want to encourage thought and action.
Episodes
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1007 In Praise of Slow Travel
Retirement gives us time to breath, time to letup, time to sit in quiet repose. We should know by now that we aren’t really going anywhere. We may as well take our time. Slow travel can really help.
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1006 What Now
"What Now" of course relates to retiring and what comes after that. Some of us have big dreams. I knew a guy in Alaska who retired and set off to sail around the world. He had a new boat made in Norway. He flew there to pick it up and sailed south and east. He didn’t get far; the Caribbean. He…
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1000 Episode
And what did we do with our lives once we retired? Did we do what we thought we would? We did want to get involved in our community. This involvement took an expanded turn with the invention of the Internet and Podcasting. Perhaps your’s will also. I serve this podcast as a tale of retirement as…
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1005 Home Free
Some folks I know have spent the last few years living home free. They go somewhere they have never been; rent an apartment or house and settle in for several months. Their last stop was in Ecuador for six months.
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1004 When Should I Retire
Long ago, my friend, Glen died at age 39: brain tumor. He never had to consider the question of when he should retire. That can happen to anyone. Death is an equal opportunity employer. It can come very unexpectedly.
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1003 Food
One thing about retirement: the appreciation of food accelerates. We can enjoy the growing, the planning, the cooking, the colors, and the eating. We have eaten and wished we had more. I should guess that many people may go to their grave thinking of food they have grown or food they have enjoyed.
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1002 Assist or Enable
Parents want their kids to learn to think. We want them to think for themselves. We want them to become independent. It isn't something with which we humans are born. At the same time we try to encourage independent thinking and we try to teach our children to listen to our advice or directions.
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1001 E-cigarettes
Sometimes I feel so out of it. When I stepped into the world of retirement I never thought I was leaving the real world. Now it seems like I see something, read something or hear of something of which I know nothing every day.
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1000 Episodes
And what did we do with our lives once we retired? Did we do what we thought we would? We did want to get involved in our community. This involvement took an expanded turn with the invention of the Internet and Podcasting. Perhaps your’s will also. I serve this podcast as a tale of retirement as…
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999 The Pause
The pause is the thing. The pause gives our mind time to work. It gives us time to think. It calls forth our imagination. We need time to sort through possibilities, thoughts, and values. We need time to find out what we are thinking.
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998 Graduation
We graduate many times in life. We step up. We step away. We step into. We move. That's the thing isn't it. We move on. Hopefully we move on to something greater that that which we have just experienced. Retirement is one of the last major change.
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997 Irresponsible
"One thing I love about retirement is the freedom to take risks and act "irresponsibly" - the kids are all grown - no-one is actually dependent on me anymore so I feel free to play - climb cliffs - swim in shark infested waters or whatever - maybe take up hang gliding?"
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996 Focus on thing you can control
I'm getting grumpy. I am getting pretty possessive of what has my attention. Retirement offers us time to pursue whatever we wish but sometimes our space and time gets invaded. Focusing on what we can control takes some effort.
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995 Energy & Retirement
Energy is one of those things that always seems in short supply. Thus it always has a high value. We feel this at the end of each day when we finally succumb to personal loss and lay our head on a pillow. It seems like there ought to be a way to beat the system; a way to get around this loss and...
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994 Connections
Our lives are filled with people coming and going. We meet them; have an interaction and then never see them again. We move one direction and they move another. This is likely to be the fate of many of our relationships. What to do?
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993 Exploring
You don't have to go far to feel like an explorer. There is more novelty and more surprises waiting just around the corner. It is this daily discovery that keeps me smiling.
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992 What Money Can't Buy
When I launched this project I was discouraged with information available on retirement that did not have to do with investments and finances. It appeared that the only concern in retirement was money. My own experience of being retired told me that there was much more to retired life than money.
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991 Advanced Directive
It is important that a health directive be clear and be known to those who might be involved in your manner of death. It makes me think that I need to be a bit more active along this line.
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990 The Family Story
It is important to share information from one generation to the other. Just today the New York Times had an article about the importance of sharing family stories from one generation to the next. It claimed that this history gives stability and a sense of identity to children.
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989 Would've, Could've, Should've
"Two roads diverged in the yellow wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." R. Frost
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988 Stuck - What Now?
It is no fun being stuck. Retirement can have this effect on us. We can feel strapped to our past or our present. We can't seem to conceive of a reason to do anything.
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987 Family Day
IIt was Family Day in Canada - a national holiday. It was the first one ever. Seems like a worthwhile title for a holiday.
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986 Reading for Pleasure
Retirement introduces a special element to our reading life. We can feast over the entire reading realm. There are no limitations; sort of like our earliest experiences. We can read for pleasure alone.
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985 Regrets
Retirement gives us time to think about the past. Mistakes, bad decisions, regrets and empty dreams come to us - many times in the depths of night. But to mull over the past and dig up old hurts to me or committed by myself doesn't appeal to me.
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984 Limits
One worn out piece of advice that seems to hold true all of our life is that we need to "pick our battles". Retirement has its limits. We are older. Our bodies do not move like they once did.
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983 Road Trip Planning
We love a road trip in the family car. We feel free - and like we are truly on vacation. We are now making our plans. We are enjoying the stage of anticipation according to the cult of happiness.
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982 Finding Meaning in Life (2)
Finding meaning in our lives was the topic of the previous podcast. I wanted to continue that train of thought. We know having meaning in our lives is important but sometimes we have trouble finding it. Many times It may be more of a problem of recognizing it.
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981 Finding Meaning in Life
Finding meaning in life seems to be a never ending quest - sort of like pursuing more air to breath. Parents, teachers, bosses and our own children no longer control us and they no longer give meaning to our lives. We are on our own.Many of us are still pursuing that topic.
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980 Watch Your Step
Musicians fall in love with their instruments. Artists fall in love with their creations. Kids fall down and skin their knees. Football players fall down and break their necks. We need to be a bit more careful about falling as we grow older.
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979 The Devil is in the Details
Though the change is slow it does happen. Spinoza would love it. It is that ever changing motion in a positive direction that brings happiness according to him. He convinced me.
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978 Miserable with Much
What brings us happiness is so very relative. If we have just finished eating food we don't like or aren't satisfied we can go crazy over something familiar and filling. If our hands are cold a good pair of gloves can seem like a god send. Happiness is all about improving our condition.
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977 Road Trip
I know people who pride themselves on how many miles they travel in one day. I have a hard time understanding this type of living. If you are truly interesting in enjoying a road trip here is a suggestion that may help you adjust to retirement.
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976 Meditation
Sometimes we just want to do nothing or at least whatever it is that we are supposed to be doing. We have no energy and no impulse to try to find some. We just want to lay low. Is there something wrong with that?
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975 Ashes to ...
What we do with ourselves, our family or friends when death comes is important to some. I don't think it is important to the ones who die but it is to those that are left behind. We need to be comfortable with the decision.
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974 Diagnosis: MCI
Sixteen months ago my primary care doctor told me I had developed Mild Cognitive Impairment(MCI). In lay terms that means I am losing my mind. It could happen slowly over the next few years or it could happen more quickly. That seems like a life changer.
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973 "You Just Don't Get It"
How much of our life do we really remember? I have a hard time even considering the question. I like to think that I remember what happened in detail. When I launch into a story at a dinner party I have no doubt in mind as to the details. How wrong can one be?
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972 Time to Let Go
Age has a way with all of us. Time is a universal leveler. We have our day in the sun and then it is over. We learn as children that we had best prepare for the future.
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97The "We" Party
We should start a new political party entitled "We". It would be based on the premise that we should help and care for one another. We have rights to our privacy and our public life. We have responsibilities to ourselves and to others. We would try to turn paying taxes into a bragable activity.
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970 Milestones
Milestones are like mountain peaks - they give us a sense of where we are. We locate ourselves in relationship to them. That is what birthdays, graduations, marriages, moves from place to place, job changes, and deaths are all about. Retirement has to be one of the more significant milestones we...
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969 Grit
Grit. The word has reappeared lately relating to child rearing and educational philosophy. There is no doubt in my mind that grit is needed in all phases of life including retirement.
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968 Five Years Left
Graphs and charts: One dealt with the average life span. I still have 17 years left according to statistical data. Another dealt with how much time we have left after arriving at age 65 to enjoy good health.
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967 Reconnecting
Retirement has its moments of isolation and then again it provides us time to reestablish contact with moments and people from our past. There is something about reaching into the past and touching one another that makes retirement so sweet.
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966 Recognition
People used to work until they died and for the most part live in an extended family structure where some recognition was assured. Today's retired people face a true challenge in this life quest. We must create a means of being recognized.
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965 The Story
Is there anything more important than a good story? And I might answer, "Very little". If there is one thing that we retired folks possess more than younger folks is the number of stories we have in our bag. We have had experiences that come only with time.
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964 Politics & Persistence
Is it so important - to be politically astute? We all know the correct answer to that question. Our elementary teachers taught us that democracy demands an educated citizenry. It is easy to see the need.
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963 Neighbors
Neighbors are important and we might all find more comfort in life by engaging those close by rather than spending all of our time reaching across the world via Facebook for friends. It isn’t an all or nothing choice. There is no reason we can’t have both. It just takes a little time and effort.
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962 Benefits of Failure
We try and fail at many things in life and that isn't always bad. But perhaps my old history professor was right in his thoughts concerning why we study history. Best to learn from other people's mistakes or failures.
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961 Looking for Direction
Those new to retirement and having a tough time figuring out just exactly what they want to do with this new phase of life could do well by asking themselves what they really like to do. And by that I mean things they like to do so much that they lose themselves in it.
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960 Why Retire?
We all grow up in our own worlds. Our experiences are different from our brothers and sisters, our neighbors, or people that live across town. No wonder we have differences with people in other communities, states, or countries. No wonder we have different reasons for retirement plans.
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959 A Retired State of Mind
What we learned as a teenager, a college student, a mature adult, a parent, and citizen intertwines and forges a strong yet pliable state of mind.We can afford the time to sit back and consider. When we do, a retired state of mind emerges that gives us the most comprehensive picture of the world…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Retirement Talk is an audio podcast intended to help people who are retired, or considering retirement, to examine their own lives. We will consider retirement in all its facets - not just financial. We want to examine our own lives and those of others, who seem to have looked closely, made choices, and are pretty happy with the consequences We want to encourage thought and action.
HOSTED BY
Del Lowery
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