Geezer health is a subject rarely mentioned in carrying on after retirement.  I’ve had a number of eye problems, including glaucoma, that have made me more cautious about what tasks I want to take on.  Sorting the things I can’t our shouldn’t do from those that are practical is a sad but necessary process.  I will never again build my own home, but I can design it and instruct some young builder on how it should go together.  I’ll never spend another 2 or 3 years in up-country Africa, but I can work in an urban center like Nairobi.

Longtime technology educator Dr. Wesley Perusek has pioneered innovative projects in New Jersey and Ohio. He proposes the development of a cadre of experienced educators to help teach science, technology, education and math (STEM). He writes:

Imagine the potential of just those retired educators listed if a mechanism was in place to bring them all to one or several focus groups. Problems in education remain and grow almost daily. Look alone at Colin Powell’s America’s Promise Alliance and the drop-out problem.

Look at the National Commission on Adult Literacy citing: “More than half of U.S. workers lack basic education and more than 1.2 million young adults – one in three – drop out of high school each year.”

How do networks of good people doing good works begin?

In my encore career, after not really having a career all my life, just coasting through life job by job, over 40 years, I started the Polar Cities Research Institute to advocate for the planning and siting of polar cities for future survivors of global warming which will reduce human population from 10 billion people in 2200 to just 200,000 people in 2500, living in polar cities, aka Lovelock Retreats.