{"id":11211,"date":"2014-08-16T17:49:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T17:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11211"},"modified":"2014-08-16T17:49:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T17:49:48","slug":"some-thoughts-on-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11211","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts on “Retirement”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My good friend Sam Garcia sent me this sign, this morning, I love it!\u00a0 So some thoughts on retirement.\u00a0 Notice it doesn’t say, DON’T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING!\u00a0 I have to do all kinds of things, but not because someone is blackmailing me with my job!\u00a0 Employees have to do what their employer says must be done, retired folks do what they desire to do.\u00a0 When Sherelene gives me a “Honey do list”,\u00a0 I want to help her, after all she has worked hard with for our family and allowed me to follow my dreams!
\nRetirement is not stopping working, it’s starting working on the things you want to work on!<\/p>\n

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I’m on the road almost as much as when I was working a full time job.\u00a0 That suits me fine, I think sitting down and waiting to die would not be near as much fun!\u00a0 Serving God can’t be accomplished from the couch!\u00a0 I have to say this is the grandest adventure of life!\u00a0 Hard work for Him is play!<\/p>\n

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Now some photography suggestions:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0 Buy one camera that you will always keep with you!\u00a0 May I suggest something like the Fuji X100s.\u00a0 It is the single most impressive camera I’ve ever shot and being limited to a single focal length of 23mm (35mm equiv.) at f 2 speed.\u00a0 It excels at low noise at high ISO, the lens is ridiculously sharp and it is quiet as a church mouse!\u00a0 Of course other alternatives exist, but pick one, it will change the way you photograph forever.
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2.\u00a0 Sign up for KelbyOne, the opportunity to learn more than you ever imagined is there!\u00a0 And may I shamelessly suggest taking a His Light or Jack Graham Workshops as well!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0 Give up all pretense.\u00a0 Embrace, cherish and love our craft!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My good friend Sam Garcia sent me this sign, this morning, I love it!\u00a0 So some thoughts on retirement.\u00a0 Notice it doesn’t say, DON’T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING!\u00a0 I have to do all kinds of things, but not because someone is blackmailing me with my job!\u00a0 Employees have to do what their employer says must […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11219,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11211\/revisions\/11219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}