VACATIONS

I have never taken a real vacation and I am almost 72 years old. I think that is because I never want to escape from what I do. It would be a different story and I would have a different attitude if I worked for someone else who orchestrated eight or ten hours of my day. As it is I have been the conductor of my own symphony of life since I was 36 years old. The music I hear and do, be it dissonant or harmonic, is my very own and thus I love creating it. I never ever NEED to escape it. So it is that when I go away I do the same things I do here in Pacifica. I paint a picture. I write a story. I tell a joke and I connect with others.
There you have it: the essence of my definition of what The Good Life contains: connection. We all need a variety of other people's threads that we weave together to make our passage here on earth and beyond colorful, interesting and amusing to us.
When it stops being thus, it is time to go to another world, another planet, another kind of being.