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THINGS I WILL DO IN RETIREMENT
(In No Particular Order):
Basically, the same things that I do now
Write poems, send out poems for publication, send out slim volumes of poems
Help raise my granddaughters Amea and Melisse
Vow to follow through on all those poems lost to sensation and/or thought
Read and clip The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books
Read poets’ biographies, lots of slim volumes of poetry, occasional non-fiction and fiction
Read the classics that I never read or never finished: A la recherché du temps perdue, Moby Dick, Middlemarch, most of Dickens, The Aeneid, The Iliad, Tristam Shandy, The Brothers Karamazov, The Magic Mountain and Buddenbrooks, A Dance to the Music of Time, etc.
Teach a few classes; take a few classes such as print making, computer art, baking, etc
Continue to exercise: aerobics, indoor cycling, walking, rollerblading, and take up yoga
Travel to states that I have missed especially Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, he grand Canyon and National Parks, St. Petersburg, cruise down the Nile and the Greek Isles, return to the Mediterranean countries: Italy, France, Greece, see Spain for the first time
Judge a few literary contests
See a lot of plays, hear a lot of concerts, go to many art museums – my forms of worship (as well as experience more nature, my other form of worship)
Listen to a lot of music (I have over 1500 CD’s)
Write my memoir (what we used to call an autobiography)
Volunteer at the Dayton Art Institute and perhaps at other places
Give blood as long as I am able (working on 18 gallons)
Clean and organize: study, books, closets, basement, garage
Continue in my role as “Domestic Factotum” since Marilyn is not a housekeeper
Cook new and different dishes
Entertain, party, and dance (and perhaps sing more – let’s see how the birthday recital goes)
Re-read Virginia Woolf and Shakespeare
Try to see my last stage production of Shakespeare: Two Noble Kinsman since I have seen the other 36 at least once on stage
Become an artist by inventing the “Installed Book Box Collage” in homage to Joseph Cornell, Picasso and Braque, and Robert Rauschenberg
Read the children’s classics to my granddaughters: The Wind in the Willows, Winnie-the-Pooh, Beatrix Potter, The Little Prince, Grimms’ Fairy Tales, etc.
Wear a beret
After driving Marilyn crazy, say to her: “I think I’ll have you committed.”
Scarecrow Photos
