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8          Issue #92  September 2020                                                      www.sportsenergynews.com



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                                              the air.                              book club or car club or to the coffee  friendly,  pretty  soon one  of  the
                                                                                    shop.                                 more  experienced  bears  will  see
                                                Oh, we’ve had holidays, of course
                                              - brief forays into the outside world,   The sea of time and silence that we   your ‘freshly out of hibernation and
                                              long car trips with a “helpful”  dreamed of all those years suddenly        wondering what to do with yourself’
                                                                                                                          look, and they will take you in hand.
                                              connubial  navigator, whiney kids  lies  before us brimming with
                                              (Mom!!! He touched  me!!!),  tents  possibilities.   The world is at work     There are classes available to hone
                                              to hoist, gear to unpack, wood  to  with its stresses and time clocks and  skills that  may need honing. Not
                                              buy or gather to cook dinner on  annoying colleagues and deadlines -  yoga, perhaps, but maybe that class
                                              the  moderately  useful and well- and we are not.  Bless ‘em.               that teaches  you how to text.  That
                                              used barbecue at the campsite. Wet      But  what  to  fly  at  first?  Therein   might be handy!


                                              bathing  suits.  Wet  towels.  Garbage
                                                                                    can lie the problem. Those summer       And volunteering could be a thing
                                              hidden  firmly  from  the  bears.    Bug   holidays were so busy, planned  to  to do. Assess your skills with an eye

                                              bites. Yes, we have ventured into the
        By Janeen Wagemans                                                          the hilt. And with the kids, there was  to  their  applicability. Maybe  you
                                              outside world before. But retirement
                                                                                    always  something.  Spare  time  was  can’t knit socks, or read dramatically
                                              is different.
             etirement is probably somewhat                                         never  spare. Someone  was always  to children, but you can drive. You

        Rlike waking up from hibernation.       The  kids  have  finally  grown  up  leaning on your time. Planning was  like to drive. And read a map. Maybe
        We pop our heads out of the  place  (without murdering  each other) and  pointless.                               volunteer to take folks to chemo or
        where we’ve laboured  industriously  they’ve moved into hibernations of       That was then. This is now.         dialysis. Don’t see anything you
        for the past thirty plus years and sniff  their own. The spouse is up and off to                                  like  in  the  volunteer  world?    Get
                                                                                      The kids are too busy to take a call,   creative!  You like dogs, and you like
                                                                                    your spouse is footloose and not keen
                                                        Cornwall’s Oldest Paint,    to rekindle much, and you’re feeling   to walk. Maybe help out older bears
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                                                                                                                          work all day and would love someone
                                                                                    seems to need.                        to take their lonely dog for a mid-day
           Presents “Famous Sports Quotes”                                            The secret, after having tackled all  adventure.


         “So often we fail to acknowlwdge  what we have                             those long unfinished jobs around the    Everyone  at  the  retirement  party

                                                                                    house and yard, is, of course, to find
         because we’re so concerned about what we want.”                            other bears who can show you where    congratulated  you with such envy.
                                                                                                                          Life  without  a  road  map,  wind in
                                                         John Wooden                the  best retirement  berry patches   your hair! Turns out, it’s up to you to
                                                                                    are. But where are they, these savvy   figure out for yourself just why they

                                          SHUTTERS                                    They might  be hanging out at       were so excited for you!
                                                                                    retirees who can show you the way?
                                                                                                                            Before you know it, you’ll be the
                                                                                    church, which they now have time  one  recognizing  that  ‘recently  out
                                                                                    for, or at  the  coffee  shop holding  of hibernation’ look on others, and
                                                     SAVE                           forth on politics  as though they’d  you’ll be at the ready to share the
                                                                                    spent their entire career on “the hill”  locations of the best berry patches of
                                                                                    instead of at the bank or the school,  retirement!
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