Fish for Friday

Edited by Morris Dean

[Anonymous selections from recent correspondence]

Your retirement accommodations seem attractive and beneficial; I'm still working on accommodations with varying degrees of satisfaction and success. I know there's a part of me that misses the implicit schedule and assignments associated with a job, albeit a pretty freewheeling one where in many ways I was my own boss.
    I've also come to realize that retirement differs for everyone. There's only one place where it seems to be on common ground in newspapers or various media, where the focus is nearly always financial: When do you do it? How do you afford it? and so on. Retirement's emotional-psychological challenges don't get quite the media attention that the financial gurus give to its finances.

Are we perhaps the last generation to assume that writing articulates and clarifies experience, and thereby enhances it?

Kerri Condley is proud to receive the endorsement of U.S. Congresswoman Linda Sánchez, who is currently representing California's 38th District and is a strong advocate for working families in California. She is co-founder and co-chair of the Labor and Working Families Caucus, she works tirelessly to ensure that workers are safe on the job, and she advocates for policies that benefit hard-working middle class Americans. Congresswoman Sánchez has broken many barriers in Congress, including becoming the first Latina in history to serve on the House Ways and Means Committee. She is committed to reducing crime, making schools safe, improving our economy, and cleaning up the air and water in Southern California.

Why is creativity so all-fired important? A screen writer pal of mine said, "Oh, creativity is everything," but I thought, Who is he? Why is what he says important? Maybe everyone is creative or maybe just putting one foot in front of the other day after day rates as high as or higher than "creativity." I think there is this mystique about creativity that is vastly overrated.

One day God was looking down at earth and saw all of the rascally behavior that was going on, so He called His angels and sent one to earth for a time.
    When the angel returned, he told God, "Yes, it is bad on earth; 95% are misbehaving and only 5% are not."
    God thought for a moment and said, "Maybe I had better send down a second angel to get another opinion."
    When the second angel returned she went to God and said, "Yes, it's true. The earth is in decline; 95% are misbehaving, but 5% are being good."
    God was not pleased, so He decided to e-mail the 5% who were good, because He wanted to encourage them, and give them a little something to help them keep going.
    Do you know what the e-mail said?
    Okay, I was just wondering, because I didn't get one either.

"'Don't Touch Me,' Said Canada. 'I Won't!' Said The U.S.A. So They Moved 20 Feet Apart" [Krulwich wonders on NPR website]


Limerick of the Week:

I can't figure out what is wrong with me -
I am tired and dejected - what can it be:
    depressed, or anemic,
    or hypoglycemic
is it one, or two, or all of the three?

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