On Relocating to Tokyo Japan

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After a successful career in politics and business, traveling the world and the opportunity to live in Europe, China and Japan, I settled in Maine and embarked on a new adventure.

And a new adventure it was, filled with so many unexpected wonderful experiences and forming new life-changing and enhancing friendships.  The topper of it all, I still ask how and why I was blessed with the honor of being appointed a faculty member at the University of Maine!

However, sixteen years later and turning 75, I decided it was time for another change.

In February 2018 after 4.5 very rewarding years serving as an Entrepreneur-in-Resident at the Maine Technology Institute (MTI), I said good-bye and moved on to write another chapter in my life story.  I resolved to restore my physical and emotional well-being by devoting time and attention to improving my golf game!  For needed intellectual stimulation, I returned to the long delayed task of working on my book project.  And, needing some additional funds to pay for a membership at the Falmouth Country Club, I took a part-time job at Home Depot.

Recently, Keiko and I sold our homestead on beautiful Crystal Lake and will be “downsizing” our life-style in a comfortable condo unit in Falmouth Maine as a transitional step to our ultimate next destination––a return to Japan.

It is a move that I have contemplated for some time.  Knowing that Keiko would likely return to Japan on my passing, I decided we should make the move together and continue to enjoy our time in a land I found well-suited to my interests and needs as I approach the later years of my life.

Recently, looking through collections of memorabilia as I prepare for our move, tears flowing as I drifted back into the land of long-ago while listening to Simon and Garfunkel’s 1970 hit Bridge over Troubled Water and the haunting lyrics: “When you’re weary, feeling small, when tears are in your eyes…. And friends just can’t be found,” I began to feel old, lonely and sorry for myself.  Getting old really sucks sometimes and cause moments of self-pity.

Then I came across a handwritten note I penned in 1967.  For years I have been captivated and inspired by Bobby Kennedy and I had written my reflections on his death closing with his “borrowed” quotation: Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say, why not?”

Not quite an epiphany, at that moment I realized that despite my age, I am still driven by the same restless energy, guided by a curious and creative mind and motivated to continue my quest seeking an illusive inner peace.  I jumped up saying out loud, “Do you think anybody is going to be interested in any souvenir of you after you are dead?” I switched the music to “Dream the Impossible Dream” and resolved to continue my life’s journey.

I have no idea what’s next, but I can’t wait to find out.  [November 3, 2018]

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