I personally am getting fed up with all the current stuff that now dominates Internet traffic. In my youth TV was labeled the vast waste land. I kinda think that same name applies to so much of what lands on … Continue reading Disconnecting From The Internet Noise
Here I am on a Sunday morning without much on my agenda. I wonder what I will do? Continue reading Feelings…
I think maybe in another year or two I will be ready to live in a RetCom apartment. But then I realize that I have been in one for the last five years. Looking back of course is much easier than looking forward, so I now realize that I didn’t need to become a RetCom resident five yeras ago. Continue reading I Think Maybe In Another Year Or Two…
One of my lifelong problems is that I get bored too easily. Many times that happens soon after I have completed a focused mode project. I then say “What’s Next” and just can’t seem to figure that out. Continue reading Be Accountable For Your Boredom?
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. Continue reading Passionately Curious
This post is about my Fundamental Purpose that I basically learned some 70+ years ago and has stayed with me since then. Continue reading Empathy – My Fundamental Purpose In Life
I have finally come to realize that there is a Fundamental Purpose that remains with us throughout our life. But there are also Life Purposes that come and go throughout our time on this earth. Continue reading What Is Your Life Purpose? …
Before I get too involved with this new topic at RJsCorner, I have put out there what annoys me the most about all the advertisements related to RetComs. Every time I see a picture from a RetCom it always has EVERY resident smiling Continue reading My Pet Peeve About Retirement Community Images
Friedrich Nietzsche was a unique philosopher of his time. He certainly came up with some controversial ideas. But some of them were simply genius. Continue reading Nietzsche & The Herd Mentality
I’m going to give credit where credit is due with this quote. I asked Open AI what was the essence of simplicity was. The above quote is what came out. I’m sure that very few people would give AI as the source; they would instead sign the author as themselves Continue reading The Essence Of Simplicity & The Future of AI
Socrates was born almost 2500 years ago in Greece. During his life he certainly had a lot to teach even us even in the 21st century. Continue reading Learn from Others…
I have always been very frugal with money, at least after I managed to get some of it. During my college years I had almost none of it left after tuition and room & board. So, spending money didn’t really … Continue reading What not to spend money on.
Simon & Garfunkel had a lot to do with me growing up. Even though I haven’t heard any of their songs in almost 40 years, I can still recite many of the words. The song that these words came from was called “The Boxer” from their album Bridge over Troubled Water released in 1970 Continue reading And Disregard The Rest…
It’s hard to imagine that the philosophy of “Simplicity” has been in existence for 3,000 years or more! I have not done much study of the day-to-day life of Greece, but compared to today, it must have been utterly simple back then Continue reading Simplicity, 410 BC Version
An important part of this new RetCom cornerstone here at RJsCorner is to give those of you who are not currently RetCom residents some suggestions about how to evaluate the facilities you might visit in the future. Critical to that is “The Pros & Cons List” Continue reading The Pros & Cons List
Three years ago today I said goodbye to my beloved µRV. This is the last picture I would take of it as it was leaving the parking lot. Continue reading Goodbye to my µRV
After initially thinking about this statement, I found it kinda depressing as if I concentrate of failure, but not success. It took a while to put these words in the proper context. Continue reading I Think A Lot About My Mistakes…
“Highly intelligent people spend a lot of time overthinking. ” Continue reading Overthinking… My Way Of Life
What made me choose a RetCom over just staying at the homestead? That is what this post is all about. Continue reading What Made Me Choose a RetCom?
Living in the moment is something that has always been hard for me to do. For one thing I overthink everything, for another is that for the most part my “present moment’ is usually pretty boring. 95% of my last … Continue reading Don’t Dwell In The Past
I recently read an article that likely explains a final piece of the puzzle as to why I am the person I am. That is because of a lifetime lack of support. Continue reading A Final Piece Of My Discovery Of Self
They might not have read a newspaper, but they have absolutely read everything in their social media account, and believe every word of it. Talk about ignorance. Continue reading About Ignorance
This is going to be a very convoluted story so hang on to something. I realize that I put out a post in my RetCom Life series about this same subject, but I want to fill out those thought a little more here this time around. Continue reading My “Eternal Self” – Round 2
Whenever I look in the mirror or get up out of a chair, I don’t see the white hair or hear the groans, instead I see my virtual 42 year old self. Continue reading I Don’t Belong Here …
I was originally going to use RetCom Life (on the margins) to give you a month by month stories about my five years of living in a retirement community. But, the more I thought about it the more I wanted to just do it freestyle. Continue reading My Last Prologue, I Promise…
Philosophy and Reasoning have been high on my list for further study for a couple of years now. Before that it lingered in the back of my mind, but rarely came to the surface. I think these two items are near the top of my list now because of several factors. Continue reading About Philosophy and Reasoning
The primary focus of RetComLife will about the struggles, joys, and everything in between I have experienced in finding and living in a retirement community for the last 5 years. Continue reading RetComLife : What’s It All About.
This is the third and final post of getting ready for a new project here at RJsCorner entitled “RetCom Life on the Margins” This post is a continuation of yesterday’s which was about my struggles in life. This one is about the Joys. Continue reading A Tale Of Two Realities -Part 3 … The Joys
Given where I am now headed with RJsCorner, I think it’s necessary to try to summarize the myriad of struggles I have had in my life into one post. This is in light of Monday’s posts about a special project coming next week. Continue reading A Tale Of Two Realities – Part 2 …Life’s Struggles
Next month I will have been in my RetCom (retirement community) for five years. It is such a dramatic difference from my homestead of 21 years that I left behind when I came here. The homestead was a 2.5 acre … Continue reading Swirling Clouds In Blueish Haze…
My 80th birthday is coming soon. It is one that even in my wildest dream I never imagined would happen. When I was in my teens I thought I would die before I turned 40. Continue reading Old Age And Your End Times
I might have become a member of the MAGA cult if I had remained in the small rural Indiana town where I grew up the rest of my life. I would never have known just how big the world was. Continue reading Vegetating In One Little Corner of Earth
For most people, Memorial Day is primarily a time to celebrate the unofficial beginning of summer. But for me, it is a time to mourn for those who have died in our needless wars of my lifetime, particularly the 58,220 young men from my generation who were killed in Vietnam Continue reading Memorial Day Remembrance
I love discovering people who have put themselves out there in order to further a long much delayed cause. Simone de Beauvoir is certainly one of them. Continue reading I Have No Desire…
My anxiety level has just been too high lately, and I am trying to do something about it. In my studies of religions I have not put much effort into Buddhism but I know it started somewhere around 600 years before its Muslim and Christian counterparts. When I came across the quote above I realized it might help in this area. Continue reading On The Present Moment
Recently I have done quite a heavy search trying to discover the essence of simplicity. After all that time I have come to the conclusion that there is no secret way to simplicity. It is up to you to decide your personal path forward. Continue reading Simplicity Is Not Simple At All
Are you still living a version of your life that was assembled by others, or have you designed the life YOU want to live? Continue reading Owning Yourself…
I’ve been searching for the correct words to describe the stages of life for a very long time. I think I now have them, Continue reading Stages of Life…
Life is simply NOT a straight and narrow path. As Thoreau said here it is jagged patchwork of all emotions. That is what makes life so interesting for those of us who look over the sides of the boxes people try to put us in. Continue reading There Is No “Straight & Narrow”
Sometimes it takes an almost panic mode to get you to change what your life focus is about. When your life is chaotic, that is certainly one of those times. Continue reading When Reality Hits You In The Face
Its been 5 years since I moved into my RetCom home and therefore given up my woodworking hobby. I almost chose a different RetCom because it had a very well equipped woodworking room. I wonder what I would have built … Continue reading Really Miss My Woodworking Shop..
Too many people are constantly on the search for the “Perfect Life”. They seem to think that “if I just get [this] or [that] everything will be perfect”. Of course, I kinda see it differently. Continue reading A Perfect Life??
A biography of Einstein was the first “big boy” book I read. I was nine-years-old at the time but the story of Einstein clung to me in the decades since. In fact, at such an early age I was convinced … Continue reading I Have Done My Share
Curiosity, for Einstein, was a method. He would sit with a question for a very long time. His thought experiments were intense Continue reading Curiosity killed the cat, but maybe made a genius
