Retirement Is Not Simply What It Means

January 12, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since we’re beginning a new year, the theme for this week is new beginnings.

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A poem about various meanings of the word “retirement”:

Retirement is not simply what it means,

Even as it literally means, "withdrawal."

To most, its less than literal sense is plural:

Infinite time to reify some dreams;

Rich, full days of doing as we please;

Enduring pleasures, passions satiated;

Mind and body fully liberated;

Endless hours to sift through memories.

Now, on your retirement, we hope

That of that word you make a lovely trope.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: New Beginnings

1/7: Revel in Your Golden Years

1/8: A Marriage Celebrates a New Beginning

1/9: Clearly, There Could Be No Better News

1/10: Behold the Mother with Her Newborn Child

1/11: Find Yourself a Purpose and a Goal

1/12: Retirement Is Not Simply What It Means