I just finished a book entitled “Embracing Retirement” by Gary Tretwell. It gave me some new insight into how to live my final years on this earth. I need something that exercises my brain just as much as you do for the rest of your body. It just seems that my 2025 approach to RJsCorner, for the most part, leaves that out. Here is a quote from the book above.

Because how you take care of yourself now won’t just shape how long you live—it will shape how fully you live.

I intend on living a very full life, every day that is left of it, and need to do whatever it takes to make that happen. I’m not saying that my artsy endeavors don’t exercise my brain. They certainly get me to thinking about new things.

But, I need something that goes back and dusts off areas of my brain that haven’t been used in a while. I want to remember, and then pass on things that inspired me, particularly when it comes to my redirect to be more focused on “Life on the Margins”.

To that end, I am presenting a new category here at RJsCorner entitled “Getting to Know Them”. This new category will require me to go back into my massive archive of books I have read in the past 70+ years and then pick a few of the authors and their stories to introduce you to. You could say this is a truncated version of CliffNotes, so to speak. I will dabble a little about the facts of their lives, but primarily, each post will be about how they affected my life in one way or another.

I don’t know how long the list will become, or even what particular format I will be using. I will be working on that in the coming weeks. So, be on the lookout for “Getting to Know Them” in the post title.