This section is aimed at helping you make wise decisions with your finances, incluidng housing options, and knowing legal issues you should give attention to in the second half of life, whether you have been able to build a comfortable nest egg or not.
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My Plan for Today and April and May by Garrison Keillor
(My World March 21, 2024)
People love people who have good stories and there is no good story without trouble so get into trouble while you're still young and have time to climb out of the ditch…
Topics:
Contemplation, Insight
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Contentment, Satsifaction
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Humor
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Inspiration
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Memories
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Optimal Aging
Flaoting Down the Canyon Through the Rapids by Garrison Keillor
(My World February 29, 2024)
I accept change, even some changes that pain me. In that respect, life is not unlike rafting through fhe Grand Canyon with calm pools between the boiling rapids…
Topics:
Change
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Character, Integrity
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Choices and Decision Making
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Contemplation, Insight
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Contentment, Satsifaction
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Humor
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Learning
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Lifestyle, General
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Optimal Aging
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Trends
Visitng Home After a Long Time Away by Garrison Keillor
(My World October 12, 2023)
Flattery is offensive to a Minnesotan. My mother recoiled if someone praised her cooking and I do the same when someone praises a book I wrote…
Topics:
Attitudes
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Beliefs
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Contemplation, Insight
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Contentment, Satsifaction
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Memories
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Relationships
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Travel
As I Keep Telling Myself, Life is Good by Garrison Keillor
(My World September 7, 2023)
It dawns on you, watching this, that what makes a society a civilized society is the existence of rescuers who will put themselves at risk in service to others…
Topics:
Character, Integrity
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Civility
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Compassion
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Contentment, Satsifaction
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Courage
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Inspiration
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News
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Optimal Aging
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Risk
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Service
Stepping into My Story by Richard Bergstrom
(My World July 21, 2023)
Taking time to reconsider my life story. Part two of Richard and Leona's personal stories as examples of the Gift of Life Review…
Topics:
Personal Stories (Biography/Autobiography)
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Contemplation, Insight
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Contentment, Satsifaction
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Faith
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Grace
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Memories
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Optimal Aging
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Relationships
Canada is Burning, But We're Doing Okay by Garrison Keillor
(My World July 13, 2023)
And so I set aside the past and retreat into the present and take pleasure in the morning coffee, the granola with berries, the appearance of She Whom I Love . . . there is serenity to be found and freedom from the vast treasury of available anxiety.
Topics:
Change
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Circumstances, Life Events
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Contemplation, Insight
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Contentment, Satsifaction
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Disaster
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News
A Lovely Lunch Last Week in New Haven by Garrison Keillor
(My World June 22, 2023)
At lunch with a pregnant woman, you talk about ordinary life, family, summer, the food, the elation of the kids at the graduation we’d attended that morning and the pride of their parents, and we never set foot in politics at all…
Topics:
Circumstances, Life Events
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Communication
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Contentment, Satsifaction
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Optimal Aging
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Relationships
A Walk in the Park in April by Garrison Keillor
(My World April 20, 2023)
It strikes me as sad, walking around Central Park on a paradise spring day, the cherry trees in full blossom . . . so much public happiness, to think of the cloud of bitterness over this generous country…
Topics:
Communication
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Contemplation, Insight
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Contentment, Satsifaction
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Gratitute
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Leisure
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Nature
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Politics
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Seasons
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Social Issues
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Social Media
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Social Movements
A Pleasant Night with Nice People in LA by Garrison Keillor
(Connections January 13, 2023)
People could go hear a lecture on the coming water shortage in the Southwest or come hear me tell you that life is pretty good and could be worse but even if bad things happen there is a great deal of kindness in the world…
Topics:
Attitudes
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Circumstances, Life Events
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Contentment, Satsifaction
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Optimal Aging
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Relationships
Into the Tunnel, Thinking in the Dark by Garrison Keillor
(My World September 2, 2022)
The technician said through a speaker, “How are you doing? Not much longer.” Actually, I wished it could be longer…
Topics:
Contemplation, Insight
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Contentment, Satsifaction
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Health Care
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Memories
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Optimal Aging
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Wellness
Just One More Morning of an Old Man by Garrison Keillor
(My World April 7, 2022)
Thoughts on life from the right field bleachers…
Topics:
Baseball
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Change
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Choices and Decision Making
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Circumstances, Life Events
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Contentment, Satsifaction
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Optimal Aging
Finding Us Faithhful by Richard Bergstrom
(My World March 11, 2022)
Reflecting on a season of change…
Topics:
Change
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Contentment, Satsifaction
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Coping
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Dying and Death
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Faith
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Family
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Grace
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Housing
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Inspiration
What You Won't Read in the Paper, Except Now by Garrison Keillor
(My World March 3, 2022)
Say what you will, life is good…
Topics:
Contemplation, Insight
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Contentment, Satsifaction
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Inspiration
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Memories
Thoughts About Toothpaste and Patriotism by Garrison Keillor
(My World February 11, 2022)
I am at an age when one is grateful for every day…
Topics:
Comfort & Consolation
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Contemplation, Insight
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Contentment, Satsifaction
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Friends & Neighbnors
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Humor
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Patriotism