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  • From: "clanSkeen" <sgian AT planetc.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Retirement planning, was Saving for a RainyQuarter Century
  • Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:29:53 -0500


That has always been my general plan. Now, I find I want to be selfish,
follow my bliss, be true to myself. That means designing and building, making furniture, creating landscape beauty as I envision it. Nothing is so certain as change,

But aren't we talking about meeting our minimum needs in this, not about the sum total of our lives? So the 'Rainy Quarter Century' plan need not exclude the possibility of a great number of other things. When I hear people talk about their retirement and pre-retirement plans (and I hear a lot of that now of days), many of them have the thing planned out too mechanically: we will have $XX a month to spend on movies and we will schedule ourselves to have a good time between 2:15 and 4:30 in the afternoon on Wednesdays and Fridays ...etc."

My thinking along these lines is to have a Plan A which covers the creature comforts, how we are going to secure those funds or commodities, and how we are going to disburse them. But operating simultaneously is Plan B (and C and D) in which my enterprises, even into sturdy geezerhood, yield a great more than that. Plan B's are not fun and it's hard to attend to them unless we have a pretty good Plan A in place and functioning.

I understand the furniture thing. My bliss is musical instruments. I've got tools, and plans, and wood, and a space in which to play with it all. It is likely to yield me some money, it has in the past. But I'm following it as a bliss first, money can follow if it's of a mind to. But I'd like to be able to reach back in the barrel and pull out that extra pair of jeans if I need them, or tap into the fund for the purpose and pay the electricity for month or two, and most important - dust off another bottle of home brewed beer while I think about the design of that lute I'm making.

What I mean is, just because you're making plans that greatly increase your odds of having that potato and pot of beans on the table, it doesn't mean that you won't have a peach pie as well if the tree bears this year, does it?

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There are two goddesses that live close to men and compete for his attention: Saraswati and Lakshmi. Lakshmi is the goddess of wealth and if she is pursued, she is likely as not to run away. Saraswati is the goddess of all things that flow, language, poetry, beauty, etc. When men pursue Saraswati purely and with abandon Lakshmi becomes jealous and vies for their attention by plying them with wealth.



James





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