At the end of the movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." Gene Wilder asks, "Do you know what happened to
the boy who got everything he asked for? He lived happily the rest of
his life."....I feel like that.
What a difference 366 days can make, so many people and places in and out of my life "some forever, not for better, some have gone and some remain"...
A year ago I was writing the first column with questions about what was to come. I had no real idea what being "retired" was and how I looked at life differently from what had been, so I played a lot of golf and spent more time with my ne'er do well buddies enjoying not having to be somewhere at some time and relaxing.
The creativity part of life was coming up with and posting Songs of the Day and other music videos I liked.
I was happily surprised when I was asked to consider a once a week live show on the radio station I had been working for and my mind went to thinking and planning and a new focus.
The thing is there's not a lot of things I think I do well but being on the air makes me happy and having friends many of whom have listened to me for decades happy too is icing on the cake.
Hard to sum it all up, but I will say this, it's been my pleasure to have spent soon to be 39 years in your company and how could anyone ask for more. Thank you all, as we used to say thanks for turning me on.
What a difference 366 days can make, so many people and places in and out of my life "some forever, not for better, some have gone and some remain"...
A year ago I was writing the first column with questions about what was to come. I had no real idea what being "retired" was and how I looked at life differently from what had been, so I played a lot of golf and spent more time with my ne'er do well buddies enjoying not having to be somewhere at some time and relaxing.
The creativity part of life was coming up with and posting Songs of the Day and other music videos I liked.
I was happily surprised when I was asked to consider a once a week live show on the radio station I had been working for and my mind went to thinking and planning and a new focus.
The thing is there's not a lot of things I think I do well but being on the air makes me happy and having friends many of whom have listened to me for decades happy too is icing on the cake.
Hard to sum it all up, but I will say this, it's been my pleasure to have spent soon to be 39 years in your company and how could anyone ask for more. Thank you all, as we used to say thanks for turning me on.
