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Reaching retirement age has an interesting result that I wasn't really expecting. By 'retirement age' I mean the age at which I can now draw my old age pension whilst at the same time still having all the resources I need to carry on working and even running a business. The interesting and unexpected result is perhaps obvious in retrospect, but still not completely easy to explain.
It is this: I am still busy (and plenty of people had predicted that), though what I do is determined less by the intended outcome, rather by some more inner sense of the worth of what I do. Even though I decided long ago that I had (for the sake of my own mental and physical health) to focus more on my creativity than on doing what customers wanted to pay to do, now even the need for the creative outcome to be potentially saleable is becoming less important.
So I have been able to put considerable time and effort into researching and writing up the potentially forthcoming Glastonbury bypass scheme, resulting in an article in the Glastonbury Oracle and a lengthy letter in the Central Somerset Gazette, both of which I am pleased with. Since then, I have been writing contributions to a new Green Movement History website, principally a piece about the early Green Fields at Glastonbury Festival, followed by my own recollections of the first Green Field in 1984, for which I was site co-ordinator.
I am now moving on to re-printing The River, my book about the River Brue, which I have decided to work on improving and adding to first. There is a new group recently started in Bruton, the 'Brue Crew', looking to connect with and if possible to protect the River Brue. I have been invited to one of their early meetings, and to introduce a showing of the Kogis' film 'Aluna'. It would be nice to get the book reprinted in time for that, if it works out ...
It is this: I am still busy (and plenty of people had predicted that), though what I do is determined less by the intended outcome, rather by some more inner sense of the worth of what I do. Even though I decided long ago that I had (for the sake of my own mental and physical health) to focus more on my creativity than on doing what customers wanted to pay to do, now even the need for the creative outcome to be potentially saleable is becoming less important.
So I have been able to put considerable time and effort into researching and writing up the potentially forthcoming Glastonbury bypass scheme, resulting in an article in the Glastonbury Oracle and a lengthy letter in the Central Somerset Gazette, both of which I am pleased with. Since then, I have been writing contributions to a new Green Movement History website, principally a piece about the early Green Fields at Glastonbury Festival, followed by my own recollections of the first Green Field in 1984, for which I was site co-ordinator.
I am now moving on to re-printing The River, my book about the River Brue, which I have decided to work on improving and adding to first. There is a new group recently started in Bruton, the 'Brue Crew', looking to connect with and if possible to protect the River Brue. I have been invited to one of their early meetings, and to introduce a showing of the Kogis' film 'Aluna'. It would be nice to get the book reprinted in time for that, if it works out ...
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