GETTING READY There seems to be plenty of books, tapes, and programs available telling us how to "manage"? after retirement but very few explaining how we "manage" until that joyous juncture is made.
I was thinking about that cart-before-the-horse silly-ism just this morning after I heard two kill-joy characters bemoaning inadequate home defense preparations. I found myself looking furtively, left and right, now and then to be ready to scream for help if any Arabic-looking characters were sneaking up on me. I feel far too many people today are looking at just that sort of "retirement" - an escape from responsibilities which make such a dream sequence take place. Only died in the wool "romantics" actually believe that such a paradise period is going to come to each of us. We are going to be lucky if we get back even a part of work and worry that went into building our past with a better future held ahead as a goal...our ultimate point of attainment.
As a nation, right now, we need to look at our defense potential the care and
caution. Our open mind-attitudes are now the easiest in the worlds to live with or to by. It will demand some fresh views of what our heritage as modified by September 11th than other stress full times. We have been deceived; we have been bitten, burned, battered and, to some extent, shamed in public and we will not react in historicways to changes of circumstances. We can now be demanding rather than seen as extending diplomatic invitations to join us in innovative projects.
It Is true we need to re-do certain aspects of our home defense. We need for protect our national wealth. We can't take it with us, but it can determine to some extent where we might choose to go and what we choose to do.
A.L.M. March 21, 2006 [c328wds]
