I think it would be a wise idea to select a safe and pleasant spot to fix firmly in mind as a a nice place to go first, to settle out from the shock of change and re-orient myself. Some pleasant uninhabited beach or meadow or island somewhere.

I think it would be a good idea to complete all the incomplete business you can, get your bequests and wishes in order, sell what you don't need, give away what is wanted, and complete all unfinished letters and other communications. The main reason being to have one's attention free to look forward at a critical point.

But before all that I want to run a schooner down the East Coast and through the Panama Canal, and riverboat the Shannon and a bunch of other rivers, and do some kayaking. I want to finish three or four half-written books and a dozen half-read ones. I want to record several hundred songs for my nieces and nephews and their children.

THen there are some slightly more remote dreams like inventing some things that would take a lot of research, learning some new artistic media like sculpting and welding, building a dream home somewhere not too expensive, and maing out with a whole long list of incredible dames, which last is purely hypothetical, I hasten to add. :D


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