Coast to Coast 32: The End, or the Launch of a Laggard’s Literary Life?

Manx Rover's Ramblings

English - March 02, 2022 22:00 - 13 minutes - 9.26 MB
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Previous Episode: Coast to Coast 31 the ‘End of the Line’ prize; a lifelong ‘Shot in the Arm’.

Next Episode: A Warrior’s Heritage Over Stated, or ‘Checkmate Granddad’.

This is the FINAL episode of Retirement Blues Goodbye

In wasn’t just the smell of the flowers; the enchantment of rolling hills, dales and moors; slow motion walking through torrential rain; being in good company; or breakfast with the ‘Mad Hatter’ that made our adventure worthwhile, it was ‘letting things go’. Along the way, issues that had previously seemed important were forgotten or relegated to a place where they could be attended to in due course.

Or, to paraphrase Socrates’s critique of life: ‘It is not living that matters, but living rightly’ - which roughly rejigged becomes: ‘Retirement Blues – Goodbye!’

The next series of Podcasts deal with a different aspect of a Manx Rover’s Ramblings. The podcasts are the serialisation of his novel, The Reluctant Conformist. This tale exposes the uncanny influence that chance may play in a seeker’s life.