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From Paradise to PurgatoryThe Wee Hours of Morning are Perfect for Writing
My thanks to those who have taken the time to look at the photos I have posted of my retirement home in Costa Rica, Central america, and to comment on my journal. I apologize for the typos here and there. I have not year figured out how to correct an error once I have made it and saved the writing.
Tomorrow, I will leave Costa Rica for a month's visit to the US. My plans are to visit family in Mississippi and Louisiana. And I intend to spend time in New Orleans, where I lived prior to making the move to Costa Rica. My apartment was the 3rd and 4th floor of what had been the town home of a prominent family in days gone by. Watching Mardi Gras parades from my balcony was a true treat. But I will not repeat that this year. Just one Mardi Gras in the French Quater is enough for a lifetime. I would not trade that experience for any treasure but would not pay a plugged nickel to repeat it. But I do love New Orleans.
My reason for going there this time is to take photos and refresh my memory of the out-of-the-way alleys and pretty couryards. I am writing a novel. And I am setting it in the French Quarter. I need photos and experince from which to draw as I write.
Retirement, in the classical sense where one slows down and lives life at a more liesurelypace, is not really suitable for me. With the major work of landscaping Acropolita finished, I find myself feeling restless-- even in a place as magnficent as this. To ease this feeling, I have begun a novel. It is, hopefully, the first in a series. I feel intimidated and exhilirated by the challenge of beginning such an ambitious project at this point in my life. My plan is to write multi-generational stories. My ulterior motive is to show to the world that life after retirement is not necessarily one spent sitting in a comfortable chair and whiling the days away.
I also feel anxious. How many readers will be interested in such books? Any comments would be most appreciated.
And now that I have gotten that off my mind, I will return to my computer and begin writing the next chapter.
Thank you, sincerely. I made the trip to the US and do hope to enjoy being with family and friends for four week. My plan is to post journal entries while I am here. Iposted yesterday and, to my horror, managed to truly mess up taht post. I am so new to this site that I do not know how either to edit the post or to delete it. I hope to figure it. out and do apologize for the error. -Betty
Sounds like a wonderful ambition and I'd love to read books show there is still life after retirement lol. You go girl and have fun on your trip state side
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