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Nine Months and Counting Down
Jun. 27th, 2019 09:47 pmIt's like a pregnancy, only at the end of the nine months, instead of a baby, I am planning to welcome a brand new life -- of retirement!
Well, semi-retirement, really. I'll be 62 and able to draw on my Social Security. I'm not foolish enough to think I can live on that amount, so I have plans to continue working half time, or whatever it takes to make just what I'm allowed to make over my Social Security income.
I'm really looking forward to it, because I will be able to focus more time on writing, marketing my writing, and building the rites of passage/ceremony "business" that is Brigid in the Desert, the little interspiritual church I pastor. I don't really think of it as a business, not really. Still, the weddings and blessings are sources of income. Oh, and art. I've been doing some experiments in painting with oil pastels, but I expect I'll be working with acrylics again soon.
Maybe as I work on the writing, art, and "ministry," there will be income from them and I'll be able to work less and focus more on those things I've been dreaming of doing for so long.
Maybe we'll win the lottery and I'll be able to start that sooner rather than later. Either way, I am very much looking forward to it. In other good news, by then I'll have a new hip, and be able to walk normally again. At least, that's what I'm hoping. I miss going for walks and hiking.
Oh, and most importantly, there will also be a new grandbaby before I retire!
New birth, new life. It's a good thing.
Well, semi-retirement, really. I'll be 62 and able to draw on my Social Security. I'm not foolish enough to think I can live on that amount, so I have plans to continue working half time, or whatever it takes to make just what I'm allowed to make over my Social Security income.
I'm really looking forward to it, because I will be able to focus more time on writing, marketing my writing, and building the rites of passage/ceremony "business" that is Brigid in the Desert, the little interspiritual church I pastor. I don't really think of it as a business, not really. Still, the weddings and blessings are sources of income. Oh, and art. I've been doing some experiments in painting with oil pastels, but I expect I'll be working with acrylics again soon.
Maybe as I work on the writing, art, and "ministry," there will be income from them and I'll be able to work less and focus more on those things I've been dreaming of doing for so long.
Maybe we'll win the lottery and I'll be able to start that sooner rather than later. Either way, I am very much looking forward to it. In other good news, by then I'll have a new hip, and be able to walk normally again. At least, that's what I'm hoping. I miss going for walks and hiking.
Oh, and most importantly, there will also be a new grandbaby before I retire!
New birth, new life. It's a good thing.
