Life Is Full of Sweet Spots

“The body is a house

of many windows: there we all sit,

showing ourselves and crying

on the passers-by

to come and love us.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

life at career’s end

turn in the road leads forward

start of something new

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18 yellow brick Fort Hancock Officer’s Row buildings stand silently overlooking Sandy Hook Bay. Once the outermost defense for New York Harbor, Fort Hancock with its 100+ buildings and 12 gun batteries was deactivated in 1974 • Photo by Jan Logozzo • Blog post and “Retirement” haiku poem by Mary O’Connor

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