Dear Dr. FN
Congratulations on achieving a very important Capstone in your life: Earning a
PhD from Goa University.
The best of luck to you in your search for other greater challenges.
I consider myself quite fortunate for having had an opportunity to get to know
you in the digital world.
What is more apt?
Retire with Grace
or
Retire with grace?
LOL. FN
On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 at 12:35, Tony de Sa wrote:
> Regarding this subject, I am sharing an article that I wrote under the
> theme, "The New Normal" to the Goa Writers group of which I am a member.
--
FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *
Regarding this subject, I am sharing an article that I wrote under the
theme, "The New Normal" to the Goa Writers group of which I am a member.
TLJ The New Norm
-Tony de Sa
In *ilo tempore, *in those days when the Covid-19 did not run its writ, I’d
ride in to Mapusa several times a day for the
One of my favourite poems, it's a villanelle, which is "a lyrical poem
of nineteen lines. A villanelle is structured with five tercets, that is to
say a three-line stanza, and a quatrain, a stanza consisting of four lines,
at the end." Each tercet expresses a distinct sentiment and seems to stand
Retirement at 62, 60, 58 (or whatever age the political class of the day
decide to make us redundant) is too early! Btw, I retired at 32... the age
at which I gave up (voluntarily) my full-time job, and never regretted that
decision for a single day of my life. So far. (Apart from the fact that
This was a Frank Kafka aphorism (pithy observation containing some truth)
written during his recuperation from tuberculosis.
Later turned into a children’s story by Carl Fagan about a cage looking for a
bird, getting rejected by many birds who preferred to be free and finally
finding one who
Nelson Lopes writes:
After retirement one feels low, unwanted and discarded in the dustbin of
History . During employment ,the position, power and influence, we wielded,
makes us intoxicated with nostalgia of our great worth If it is the chair and
position you nurtured with pride then the world
Dylan Thomas - Always famous for his word imagery, this is one of his best
works. However his rostering, boisterous nature will not sit well with our
gentle, respected Nelson Lopes.
Roland.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:55 AM Linken Fernandes
wrote:
> Do not go gentle into that good night,
> Old
RIGHTLY SAID...
On Sunday, January 24, 2021, 11:27:12 PM GMT+4, Roland Francis
wrote:
Nelson you are completely right in what you say, but there is no need to feel
helpless and sad at one’s situation. Here are a few ways you can combat it.
1. Stopping running around to fulfill
Nelson you are completely right in what you say, but there is no need to feel
helpless and sad at one’s situation. Here are a few ways you can combat it.
1. Stopping running around to fulfill your children’s family needs. No
babysitting (you have long completed that part), no doing their odd
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