Look Around You, Amazing!

     People ask me, how is retirement?
     I have to think long and hard, about an answer.
     My principal asked, and I said, " It is always the last day of school." I think that pretty much sums it up.
     Then as usual my crammed full brain, began to think.
     My first year of not having to be at work, was an adjustment. I missed all of my friends at work, and the very process of teaching children the ins and outs of middle school.
      As the second year, has come around, I feel much more at peace.
      Actually I feel thankful, and my plate is full.
      Time still escapes me, the days fly by, and I look for more hours.
      My desire to learn continues with a fever, and my search for joy is in every waking day.

     This October has been so delightful, and the sky, a color blue, that I have no words for. I was telling my beloved, Dr. Bill, many times over, had he seen the sky lately. I think he said yes? after 33 years of marriage, you pretend to hear each other. " Seriously, ( I mean business) have you seen it, look at these pictures I took today!" spoke I in my most gentle southern way?? I have lost him, so I go around the house to continue to enlighten him. " Bonnie, (that's me!) you have not seen the sky in years, you have been at work!" Bill answered from who knows where. Oh my, he is so right. ( That is just a thought, I would not say that out loud)
   Retirement has given me the opportunity while I still have a few brain cells left, to look around. I feel like a toddler, who is seeing things for the first time. My camera, and cell phone, travel in my pockets, I want to be ready! Just this weekend, I was at Home Depot buying mums and a tiny frog was just sitting. On my mum! I yelled at Emma, "Look, you never see this!" as I dropped my purse getting my camera out. I took the picture, and it was awesome. It was a moment of joy. I go into the store to pay for my flowers, and I proceed to tell the cash register lady about what happened, she wanted to see the picture. ( Em would tell you I forced it upon her, hmmm....) In her excitement, she said, " This picture is better than any I have seen in National Geographic!" I KNOW, you have to be ready to see the world. ( Picture is on Facebook, if you care to look)
  My senses are at 10+, things taste better, smell divine, music emits colors!!! ( I know all of this could be some drugs coming back to haunt me, if I had ever inhaled??!!) Those crazy 60 and 70s, lord that is a whole other story!!! Back to my blog!.
  In the fall last year, I was sitting in front of our bay window, my reading spot when I started to stare at the trees. They looked funny to me, something was amiss. I grabbed my camera, and carefully went to see what I was seeing, it was a squirrel blending in with the tree, wrapped in dead ivy vines. It was amazing!! nature in its glory and I have the time to see and do all!! Yes the laundry never goes away, and for some reason people still need to eat!  But time is on your side, you can lolly gag around and stuff gets done. That is the difference, I guess. Your pace of living is more of a stroll, instead of a full sprint.
  That my friends is retirement for me, just doing and being in the now.
Look Around, Amazing!
   Look close you will see the squirrel!!!