A New Comittment

I’ve owned this website for two years now. I started it as a Christmas present to myself following Blue Shield’s retiring me, 8 months before I turned 60. At the time I was consumed by preventative medicine; The McDougall Plan, Caldwell Esselstyn, Forks Over Knives and the like, … I was 6 years older than my dad was when he died of a heart attack, so I became enthralled with the idea that I had found a solution for an intractable problem. I am still as committed to preventative medicine as I was two years ago, perhaps more, but as I continued to fail at finding a suitable way forward, my resentment towards Blue Shield grew greater and greater. Now I am returning to this website to begin formulating opinions about the new world I entered after Blue Shield unilaterally and without any input from me, disengaged me from the world in which I lived. My experiences over the last years, when I entered a protected class for the first time in my life, have made me aware of how insidious the plague of ageism is. We were the boomers. Our parents came back after saving the world from the threat of fascism. They ended the holocaust. They built the most robust economy the world has ever known and made the United States of America the country that the world most sought to emulate. We lived up to the mantel of, “Leaders of the free world,” that Churchill set upon us when he toured America after the second world war. And they set about populating that nation with the largest generation (on every scale) the world had hitherto known, and they lived a tidy few summers before time had its way with them until now, when only a handful remain. But they were able to watch their children prosper and try to contribute to the great experiment of this nation in ways that often frustrated and angered them.
We, the children of that, “Greatest generation,” are now facing the great void ourselves. What I’ve discovered from being out of work for the last 3 years is that the path that markets have built for me are not guaranteed. You never know when the time will come when you have to start trailblazing to survive. The time has arrived for me. And I guess the place to begin is with a new Commitment to posting on this blog. It’s been a busy few years in the greater world and there is plenty to write about. So on we go,…

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