This is the fifth anniversary of my retirement party, and I have just come across the letter my wife read on that occasion. I’d like to share it with you:—–I know something about James that you don’t know. To explain, I’m going to quote from one of G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown stories. These are detective [...]
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"Well, how's retirement going?" My journal for the last month answers this frequent inquiry, but probably not as the various questioners might expect. Let me explain. Retirement affords time to travel. We drove north to Harrison to visit Aunt Rabbit (a.k.a. Mabel Rose Tyson, now almost 91) and took her to Maplewood Cemetery where she has relatives [...] "For Flambeau, after all his violent adventures, still possessed what is possessed by so many Latins, what is absent (for instance) in so many Americans, the energy to retire. It can be seen in many a large hotel-proprietor whose one ambition is to be a small peasant. In can be seen in many a French [...] This has been a significant week, a crucial turning point in our lives that sprang upon us rather suddenly. Mary and I have concluded that I should retire soon, after almost 32 years with the same employer. The decision pleases me, even though I had planned on working a bit longer. But I am tired, very [...] |
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