My "beyond" is already upon me and I've found that letting go of all that made up my work life in past decades is the toughest task I've had. I am now dealing with files I should have dumped four years ago along with books I've hung onto because I just might need them. It has taken me four years to adapt to my "beyond," and I'm still in …
My "beyond" is already upon me and I've found that letting go of all that made up my work life in past decades is the toughest task I've had. I am now dealing with files I should have dumped four years ago along with books I've hung onto because I just might need them. It has taken me four years to adapt to my "beyond," and I'm still in and out of its ramifications. Physically I can't do what once I could do, but my head has not yet caught up with my years and my body. And as I stop to think about it (Thanks, Scot, for putting this on the table!), the other adjustment is to the fact that I've become a "has been" in an academic world with younger scholars doing the publishing that once was my province. All of this is simply to say that our "beyond" can mean adjustments we had not anticipated.
My "beyond" is already upon me and I've found that letting go of all that made up my work life in past decades is the toughest task I've had. I am now dealing with files I should have dumped four years ago along with books I've hung onto because I just might need them. It has taken me four years to adapt to my "beyond," and I'm still in and out of its ramifications. Physically I can't do what once I could do, but my head has not yet caught up with my years and my body. And as I stop to think about it (Thanks, Scot, for putting this on the table!), the other adjustment is to the fact that I've become a "has been" in an academic world with younger scholars doing the publishing that once was my province. All of this is simply to say that our "beyond" can mean adjustments we had not anticipated.