Kilts and Self-Identity

[BEEDEE]

Before I retired I tended to define myself by my job (I did drugs - the legal kind!)

After retirement I had some difficulty in defining my self until someone suggested that we retirees are really undergoing a renaissance - and that's how I really see myself now - a renaissance man. Among others I've taken up watercolor painting and learning the bagpipes, designed web sites, begun creating sgian dubhs, making kilts, sail when I want too and generally enjoying life and steadfastly refusing to act my age!!!


I'm not 63, I'm 23 with 40 years experience!!


Brian

[Panache]

Who am I?

I am a devoted father, a loving husband, and a dutiful son
I am a humble gardener, an elegant dancer, and a dashing swordsman
I am an honest gentleman, a loyal friend, and a good neighbor
I am a hard worker and a craftsman of wood and words
I am diplomat, a clown, and a poet
I am a great fool and wise beyond my years
I am vain and humble
I wear kilts but they are only a small part of the white plume I have carried within me for most of my life
I am all this, and less, and more
I am James, and Jamie, and the flamboyant Panache

(For this is the way one must talk when speaking with dragons…)

Cheers

Jamie

[Kiltman]

Before I retired I tended to define myself by my job (I did drugs - the legal kind!)

After retirement I had some difficulty in defining my self until someone suggested that we retirees are really undergoing a renaissance - and that's how I really see myself now - a renaissance man. Among others I've taken up watercolor painting and learning the bagpipes, designed web sites, begun creating sgian dubhs, making kilts, sail when I want too and generally enjoying life and steadfastly refusing to act my age!!!


I'm not 63, I'm 23 with 40 years experience!!


Brian

Seems like the best way to be 60+. As a friend said: It's much easier to rebel at this end of life.