Retirement Sabbatical Year of Discernment

Caught this picture of an Elephant Seal with my Canon Camera from a distance. Our son Shawn caught this picture of us, trying to look like busy campground hosts?     Our campground host job continues to be pretty laid back with our main responsibility being to lock the day use bathrooms at night. We kiddingly say that we need to do one "good deed" a day. Sometimes it's picking up some litter, giving folks directions to a trail, or lately we've done a lot of clearing of fallen limbs, etc. from the trails due to the recent stormy weather, but a couple of weeks ago we were each, separately involved in reuniting "lost" family members. One day Rob was sitting outside in the sun when a woman came walking by using a walker. She asked if he had seen her husband and gave Rob a brief description. Rob said he had seen a man matching that description about 10 minutes earlier and he offered to go look for him. He took the gator and located a man about a 1/2 mile away and...

  Do you see Golden Gate Bridge in the background?     Daughter Erin and I met up at Lands End in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago for me to pick up the new to me camera that my niece Emily mailed to me through Erin, and Erin and I took advantage of the location to walk the trail there. The little dog is "Under Butt," the pet of a friend of Erin, and the sweetest little dog I've ever met.     I remember first learning about Opportunity Costs in an undergraduate economics course many years ago. Basically to me it means that if you are doing one thing, you can't be doing another. The "cost" of spending a lot of time hiking and walking means not spending that time reading, or knitting, or doing a jigsaw puzzle, etc. I have always had the challenge of having many interests and not feeling there was enough time to do them all. Looking forward to retirement I imagined unlimited time for everything that had been deferred, but alas I still have to make choices to...