@mangeons, excellent goal. What are you taking, and which class is going to be the hardest? Which is the most fun? Don’t let us be too much of a distraction!
@augustlan, I used to love being snowed in! But I do remember once being the only one on hand to shovel out my father’s house, on a February visit after I’d been living in California for 6 years. What a chore. I hope you didn’t hurt yourself.
@dpworkin, I just sympathize: pain sucks. I hope you can get your classes straightened out without too much literal and figurative pain.
@stranger_in_a_strange_land, apology accepted. Please let us know how things go as you recalibrate. I see no reason why you shouldn’t go on with school. My mother got her M.A. at 51, and my aunt her Ph.D. at about 62. Why ever not? @dpworkin is going at it now, and I am taking a class with 20-year-olds at a community college, where the instructor is less than half my age.
Yes, it was my first time on the air, but not my first time on a mike or speaking before a group, and I kind of knew what to expect from my son, who had a slot as a DJ on the campus radio station for a year in college. He spent a lot of prep time too. Bob Lurtsema (he was Bob when I knew him, before Morning Pro Musica) must have gone at it as not just a full-time job but something more like an obsessive passion.
@janbb, my question provided you with entertainment? Oh, hurray, then. I was afraid I was being a nuisance. But, my dear, how can you not have plenty to do when you can read all you want of everything in the world?
@Simone_De_Beauvoir, I am so sorry, darlin’, but you had such a horrible day yesterday that it made me laugh even while I wanted to cry for you. Will you forgive me? (If you have little boys, I think you must know this book —a favorite around here for a number of years.) I was a bit concerned about your having an exchange on fluther that threw you so badly off balance, but I’m glad you felt safe coming to this thread. There won’t be any confronting and challenging and taking people on around here, not even if each side has a point. That’s just not what the Progress thread is about.
@JeanPaulSartre, welcome! I am inferring that you were recruited by Simone. Making a coat!—what an amazing goal. Any kind of goal at all, large or small, is what we’re here for, even if it’s just making it through the week. Say, I’m going to be reading some of “your” literature in the next few weeks.
@liminal, welcome to you too. You are facing a lot of challenges at once. Rhythm is good. What do you do for a calm center, stillness in the middle of the rhythm and the swirl?
@Grisaille, congratulations! I think the toughest part is past now, don’t you? Hang in there.
@Naked_Homer, I think of you so often during this terribly tough transition. Please lean on us all you need to.
@Dibley, another welcome! What are you working on?
@Chikipi, I think several of us can empathize with your mobility problems right now. I learned at the age of 27, with knee surgery, just how very much of my sense of independence depended on the use of my legs. It’s a lesson I’ve never forgotten and am remembering again now with my foot in a cast—luckily a soft cast, and not for long. Good luck with your recovery.
@nikipedia, I don’t know your age, but I can identify with your distaste for those matters, your resistance to rigid structure, and your conflicting desire to act a little more grown up with respect to personal responsibility. At retirement age now, I still feel the same way. But there are some things you can do that are less painful than others. To begin with, you have to think a little differently about it (realizing that the future won’t take care of itself), and you are already doing that.
@Dog, @fireinthepriory, @zephyr826, and others, how’s it going? Lurve to all.