[Magdalen] Fw: A final Thank-you, and Farewell.

[M J _Mike_ Logsdon]

What I just sent to my former Water Resources Agency family.  I revised it many, many, many times, as one can no doubt assume.  The only signatory not receiving it, is, my former supervisor.  It is only fitting that, considering the banality of what she wrote, that she hear of this, rather than receive it directly.

This hurt.  But I needed to write it.

-----Forwarded Message-----
From: M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Aug 12, 2018 11:29 PM
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Subject: A final Thank-you, and Farewell.

Dear card signatories:

I cannot thank you enough for the thought and compassion that went into your participation in the card-signing and financial contribution regarding my departure from the Agency after 25.5 years.  The money, especially, is of untold signficance, considering the immediate future I am both facing, and indeed already experiencing.  As former President Clinton once said, "It's the economy, [rest deleted]."  Plus, I lose my County medical insurance at the end of this month.  So, every dollar counts right now, and I repeat my thanks for the contribution.  It cannot but help.

A significant clarification, however, needs to be made.  What I'm told began as a "resignation card", quickly, or so it seems from many of the comments made in it, morphed itself into a "retirement card".  Nothing could be further from the truth.  No "new chapters", no "next adventures", except as come as part of the necessity that prevails.  I will no doubt need to pull my retirement soon so as to have some form of guaranteed income from here on out.  But my resignation was exactly that, and not in any way should it be construed as a "retirement" per se.  There are times in one's life when one simply knows one needs to make a certain decision, no matter how painful.  I found myself in that situation, and I was required by both common sense and the need to preserve my health, to make the horrifically necessary decision to sever my ties with the Agency and "cast my bread upon the waters", Biblically speaking.  Due to most likely having to pull a way too early retirement, I will no doubt be needing to work in some other capacity for well beyond my ability to claim Medicare at 65 (still 12 years hence; don't let the grey hair fool you).  With any luck, I will be able to experience something like a real "retirement" before I pass through the veil.  Let's just say that I've been given, by circumstances, the necessity of testing the faith that once one's bread is cast upon said waters, something equivalent, or hopefully better, comes floating back.  If not, one just deals as best one can, hopefully in a positive light.

Any of you that are prayin' sorts, I covet all you can spare.

I leave you all (and only a few of you really know me in any significant regard) with two thoughts.

One is in the form of a Q&A.

Q:  How may sides are there to a story?
A:  At least two.

And lastly:

Be nice to one another.  It takes so much extra effort to do the opposite.

Farewell,

M J (Mike) Logsdon (Rev)
(831) 594-5476.