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GLEANINGS FROM THE GROVE

Chasing Zzzzz’s

Paul Fanning, DTM

episode of the program I was so happy to
be seeing. I have resigned myself to
do one of two things. Either give
up wanting to see that episode

or get more sleep. The former
lost out, while the latter won and
seems to have become my new
norm in life.

You see I am blaming it all on our beloved
Oops!...I did it editor. It was a great privilege to hear of her going
again. No, I am not back to work after retirement. She outlined in
referring to the her Pathways speech about how she had become

song lyrics from nervous going back to work, the interview
Britney Spears, process, and one other obvious concern, her
but what I-that “experience” of a lifetime of working. I came to
is me, myself that crossroads three months ago when I noticed

and I-did again. my checkbook figures doing something I was not
You ask what liking-more and more expenses for post 65-years
was so terrible of age and less and less income. Golden years?
that this has Mine were beginning to look like lead or plastic

become an instead. Great plans for sitting back, kicking off
occurrence and my shoes, and watching the world go by went by.
almost a norm for me? Why very simply, I sat Covid. Then the reality of Medicare and the high
down on my couch, iced drink at my fingertips, price of medical expenses and prescriptions, and

and the television on ready to watch one of my the rising cost of living. The thick fluffy cushion
favorite programs. And then I did it again. Woke I had envisioned for my retirement began to
up some 65 minutes later, while refreshed, but look more like a thin reed mat with holes in it.
for the ninth million time, missed that particular

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