{"id":1884,"date":"2016-06-29T20:16:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T03:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2016-06-30T04:24:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T11:24:32","slug":"repacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"Repacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150126.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150126.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1885\" \/><\/a>Repacking, says Richard Leider and Alan Webber, is an essential step in getting ready for retirement or what they call a \u201clife reimagined.\u201d  According to these authors, repacking  means deciding what to keep and what to jettison for the years ahead.  It\u2019s \u201ca practice that challenges you to lighten your load.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Makes me think of climbing Colorado\u2019s Uncompahgre Peak , one of my favorites.  The final 200 yards to this 14,000-plus foot summit is a scramble\u2014a rocky terrain where one has to use both hands and feet to make the ascent.<\/p>\n<p>So I leave my hiking poles behind (won\u2019t need them), along with some of the weightier items in my pack (won\u2019t want them).<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ve been thinking about what to leave behind as I attempt post-retirement summits. I\u2019ve decided I can do with less eating out (made sense with my college schedule but drains resources I can use for other things) and less TV (especially the 24-hour news channels\u2014do I need to tell you why).<\/p>\n<p>There may be other things, but it\u2019s a starting place. And I like the analogy.<\/p>\n<p>Looking down on high mountain valleys dotted with bighorn sheep  is well worth doing without one\u2019s stuff for a while.<\/p>\n<p>And the pleasure of a few meals out pales next to the dream just starting to form for my future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repacking, says Richard Leider and Alan Webber, is an essential step in getting ready for retirement or what they call a \u201clife reimagined.\u201d According to these authors, repacking means deciding what to keep and what to jettison for the years ahead. It\u2019s \u201ca practice that challenges you to lighten your load.&#8221; Makes me think of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}