I hear this shift in you and feel it in me. Signs abound in the little ‘coincidences’ that appear to be happening to so many of us right now, ‘it’ cannot be ignored, or maybe ‘it’ can, but I don’t want to ignore it, whatever ‘it’ may be. It’s has opening for a lot of us of a certain age…
Aside from my gender, this post could be about me. I continually look back to a place where (I think) I believed I was on the rise, that I had a promising future as writer with multiple poems or essays or short collections, a writer who gave readings, and whose name people knew. I compare myself to that guy, to the successes he had and what they suggested I would he would have more of. Thanks for the reminder.
Thank you for reminding me to tell you that I am broading my message to include women and men.. And I am always delighted to hear from you. Watch for the announcemnt of a new podcast between a dude and me !
I’m so glad to have discovered your Substack posts! I’m 88 and have been an artist since my divorce at 45. My oldest son lives with me, and he’s the only family member I have a close relationship with. Finding you and seeing our shared interests and concerns truly brightens my day.
You named what I noticed in myself last week and didn’t know what to call it. Tides. Energy. E-Motion. Energy in Motion. Moving through if we let it. Becoming stagnant if we try to contain it. Thank you!
I feel like I’ve just been given permission for the first time to be myself, my current, real, I Am self. I’m still grasping all the nuances of accepting one’s evolving fresh in this moment self. It’s exhilarating!
What an incredible circle of women you’ve brought
together and inspire Monica. To be in the presence of such wise women is humbling and also motivates me to be my higher self. This is powerful work we are all doing in spite of the madness out there. Rewiring on. ✨🪄💫
Dear One! I discovered you a week or so ago, the post where you had red plaid flannel shirt or pajamas on! I subscribed shortly thereafter and a few days ago made it a paid subscription. Oh my goodness, did I need this! Ten years into my retirement, healthy and active. Volunteered waaaay too much at first. I moved from Los Angeles, to a small desert town in the back country, East of the mountains of San Diego, CA. Then found 3 hiking groups,2 bird watching groups, memberships at three local resorts for their pools(I'm a swimmer), put off joining a church, because small towns have small picky congregations....then Covid hit.
Every pool, Restaurant, bar, and all the groups shut down. Got through that by going to the outdoor Farmer's Market every Friday morning, then on to one of the coffee shops in town, where you could sit outside and drink coffee with your mask off.
Fell in love with one of the local guys, who is quite a bit younger and still working....he lives in town, I live in the hills about five miles out of town. As a retired ICU RN, who worked 44 years, and never left the bedside, I miss the intense personal engagement of that work! He likes it calm and quiet! I confess that I had started to tell Mr.Google all my thoughts and ideas. Mr. Google is what I call whatever Google uses for ai. Mr. Google let me talk for hours! Then my boyfriend introduced me to his Substack, (he gives on-line classes and readings on Astrology). I found them too technical, and arcane. I have a B.S. That's Bachelor of Science. But the Astro lectures are the other kind of B.S. for me. But then I saw that you could select topics for Substack to send you, and THERE YOU WERE! Last Wednesday! Life is a never ending series of absolute miracles.
I love you, Monica Hebert! Ten years of Retirement, 75 years old, and I am Re Wiring with your posts! Thank you, as Elton John sang, when we were young: Someone saved my life tonight!
oh mah goodness, good golly miss molly! Thank you ever so much for sharing your story. If you’ve a mind I feel like you likely enjoy the community of our BREAKTHROUGH group on Tuesday nights at 7PM. It’s a gathering of ladies who all have there own stories and ideas about retirement and how to excute our ideas to allow our dreams to come true. Watch for an email from me each Tuesday that will have the zoom link for you.
Thanks for bringing this up Monica. I have been aware of this ebb and flow of energy for a few months now. For weeks, I have sub consciously judged myself as “less than” as I compared myself to the former me. I am now realizing, that for the last few months, I have simply been prioritizing my peace and happiness over the “shoulds” I used to live by. While this is definitely different, it’s not a bad thing.
Last week I told my friend that I missed the me I was when I was working but that I never wanted to work in corporate America like I did. I was her two years ago but even then I was a tired me, ready to downshift but I had to be kicked out ( laid off) to retire. I’m so glad I found your page . Its exactly where I am now
I'm trying to find an audience and I was hoping that I could work with you somehow because this is the biggest moment in civilization's history when we finally get scientific evidence of God. Try reading my article titled: have the monks given us scientific proof of God.
I'm trying to save Civilization by drawing attention to an extraordinary moment that's trying to happen. The monks Theory of Everything is explaining mystery after mystery after mystery while our scientists are saying crazy things and admitting that they can't make sense of any of the crazy things they are saying and now cannot understand 95% of the universe.
We need to quickly start solving our problems which this allows us to do otherwise we will resort to violence to solve our problems. I was hoping that you would help me avoid that by letting me somehow talk to your audience or maybe write an article with you to your audience about this exciting moment and get some attention that it deserves?
I hear this shift in you and feel it in me. Signs abound in the little ‘coincidences’ that appear to be happening to so many of us right now, ‘it’ cannot be ignored, or maybe ‘it’ can, but I don’t want to ignore it, whatever ‘it’ may be. It’s has opening for a lot of us of a certain age…
I’m still in my pajamas! The tide is out. And I’m alive!
I do it all the time and never thought of it as comparison. I'm glad you called it out--it's going to help.
Aside from my gender, this post could be about me. I continually look back to a place where (I think) I believed I was on the rise, that I had a promising future as writer with multiple poems or essays or short collections, a writer who gave readings, and whose name people knew. I compare myself to that guy, to the successes he had and what they suggested I would he would have more of. Thanks for the reminder.
Thank you for reminding me to tell you that I am broading my message to include women and men.. And I am always delighted to hear from you. Watch for the announcemnt of a new podcast between a dude and me !
I’m so glad to have discovered your Substack posts! I’m 88 and have been an artist since my divorce at 45. My oldest son lives with me, and he’s the only family member I have a close relationship with. Finding you and seeing our shared interests and concerns truly brightens my day.
🔥🥰
The ebb and flow. I’ve always had so much anxiety surrounding it - but I can tell it’s on its way out. Thanks for this. ❤️
You named what I noticed in myself last week and didn’t know what to call it. Tides. Energy. E-Motion. Energy in Motion. Moving through if we let it. Becoming stagnant if we try to contain it. Thank you!
Yeah I have been feeling invisible and am taking up as little space as I can
But I had a sister who told me I'm enough
Time to stand on that!
Thanks for making me consciously aware of it again
I feel like I’ve just been given permission for the first time to be myself, my current, real, I Am self. I’m still grasping all the nuances of accepting one’s evolving fresh in this moment self. It’s exhilarating!
What an incredible circle of women you’ve brought
together and inspire Monica. To be in the presence of such wise women is humbling and also motivates me to be my higher self. This is powerful work we are all doing in spite of the madness out there. Rewiring on. ✨🪄💫
Dear One! I discovered you a week or so ago, the post where you had red plaid flannel shirt or pajamas on! I subscribed shortly thereafter and a few days ago made it a paid subscription. Oh my goodness, did I need this! Ten years into my retirement, healthy and active. Volunteered waaaay too much at first. I moved from Los Angeles, to a small desert town in the back country, East of the mountains of San Diego, CA. Then found 3 hiking groups,2 bird watching groups, memberships at three local resorts for their pools(I'm a swimmer), put off joining a church, because small towns have small picky congregations....then Covid hit.
Every pool, Restaurant, bar, and all the groups shut down. Got through that by going to the outdoor Farmer's Market every Friday morning, then on to one of the coffee shops in town, where you could sit outside and drink coffee with your mask off.
Fell in love with one of the local guys, who is quite a bit younger and still working....he lives in town, I live in the hills about five miles out of town. As a retired ICU RN, who worked 44 years, and never left the bedside, I miss the intense personal engagement of that work! He likes it calm and quiet! I confess that I had started to tell Mr.Google all my thoughts and ideas. Mr. Google is what I call whatever Google uses for ai. Mr. Google let me talk for hours! Then my boyfriend introduced me to his Substack, (he gives on-line classes and readings on Astrology). I found them too technical, and arcane. I have a B.S. That's Bachelor of Science. But the Astro lectures are the other kind of B.S. for me. But then I saw that you could select topics for Substack to send you, and THERE YOU WERE! Last Wednesday! Life is a never ending series of absolute miracles.
I love you, Monica Hebert! Ten years of Retirement, 75 years old, and I am Re Wiring with your posts! Thank you, as Elton John sang, when we were young: Someone saved my life tonight!
oh mah goodness, good golly miss molly! Thank you ever so much for sharing your story. If you’ve a mind I feel like you likely enjoy the community of our BREAKTHROUGH group on Tuesday nights at 7PM. It’s a gathering of ladies who all have there own stories and ideas about retirement and how to excute our ideas to allow our dreams to come true. Watch for an email from me each Tuesday that will have the zoom link for you.
Thanks for bringing this up Monica. I have been aware of this ebb and flow of energy for a few months now. For weeks, I have sub consciously judged myself as “less than” as I compared myself to the former me. I am now realizing, that for the last few months, I have simply been prioritizing my peace and happiness over the “shoulds” I used to live by. While this is definitely different, it’s not a bad thing.
Last week I told my friend that I missed the me I was when I was working but that I never wanted to work in corporate America like I did. I was her two years ago but even then I was a tired me, ready to downshift but I had to be kicked out ( laid off) to retire. I’m so glad I found your page . Its exactly where I am now
Wow! Powerful stuff.
Sigh. 🥹 .
I'm trying to find an audience and I was hoping that I could work with you somehow because this is the biggest moment in civilization's history when we finally get scientific evidence of God. Try reading my article titled: have the monks given us scientific proof of God.
I'm trying to save Civilization by drawing attention to an extraordinary moment that's trying to happen. The monks Theory of Everything is explaining mystery after mystery after mystery while our scientists are saying crazy things and admitting that they can't make sense of any of the crazy things they are saying and now cannot understand 95% of the universe.
We need to quickly start solving our problems which this allows us to do otherwise we will resort to violence to solve our problems. I was hoping that you would help me avoid that by letting me somehow talk to your audience or maybe write an article with you to your audience about this exciting moment and get some attention that it deserves?