The Oregon Experience: Looking back at 2008

Friday, January 02, 2009

Looking back at 2008

..and some year it was!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: so nice Jay. and retirement? -rob kerr; 4:52 PM PST
Anonymous said...: Great pix Jay; man you've still got it.

Especially love the pic of President Clinton and all the camera phones.

Stewart; 8:18 PM PST

Finding a sense of place

Carlos Castenada wrote that to know a place was to understand the space between the leaves of trees. Our cat is unimpressed by this notion and has no trouble in finding peace wherever the sun hits her. I have a bit more of a challenge, albeit a pleasurable one, of finding my sense of purpose in central Oregon where the light plays out through the Juniper and Ponderosa forests. Everyday is different and always holds a surprise or two. My friend, Dick Schmidt, who is also retired from the Sacramento Bee, provided me with the truest way to describe retirement. "You wake up in the morning not knowing what to do with your day and you go to bed at night with only have half of it done."