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Time To Retire Yet?

06 Monday Feb 2017

Posted by Ronald Parks in Hiking, kayaking, Recovery

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GOD, Hiking, kayaking, meditation, nature, Peace, photography, Retirement, spirituality, Work

Every time I go to the Eastern Shore with Kathy, I get this gnawing feeling in my gut, telling me it’s time to retire and move down here. It is just so peaceful.

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Daydreaming with the moon and the windmill.

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Little streams every where. Not big enough for a kayak, but a reminder that there are larger ones around…

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Even just watching the nails back out of the boards they hold up, gives a sense of peacefulness, not found where I am today.

I know that peace comes from the work we do with our spiritual selves. That Peace can come no matter where you are. But for me, I can get too distracted with the busyness of my work and everything around me in the city. It’s bad enough I have never learned through meditation how to quiet my mind and listen to that ‘Still Small Voice’ within. Rock and Roll oldies still play in my head, like them or not! That is why I started to hike years ago and in the last year or so, taken up kayaking; to help quiet my mind. No matter where I go, there I am…but when I’m down the shore, it feels good – physically, mentally and spiritually.

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