What Then?

It's fun imagining what I'll be up to in twenty, thirty, even forty years from now. How will things be in the world affecting my corners of it? How satisfying will whatever I'm doing then be for me, and for anyone within range of experiencing effects of me doing whatever that is.

After finally casting off frantic youthful seeking of fun over function, setting specific goals became my thing. Landing specific jobs to advance along specific professional trajectories, learning and applying specific knowledge and skill sets all along the way. A lot of goals I had always wanted to achieve, some I never expected to bring to full fruition, and many totally unexpected goals realized which sprang up throughout thirtyplus years of professional work.

Well beyond a decade in retirement, now, I've no short-term goals to rebuild on the first homestead parcel since the USFS decimated it through acts of gross incompetence and criminal negligence. I do entertain goals of observing and performing detailed measurments of its natural recovery, unimpeded or affected by any artificial remediations I might be able to apply. No debris removal. No downing and hauling away destroyed timber. No bulldozing up dikes or other artificial water control structures. Just leave it alone, watch it happen, and try to gain some useful knowledge from it all. Then, maybe twenty or thirty years from now...

...purchase a prefabbed home/studio unit which can be delivered via VTOL freightflight right to an ideal spot where I can kick back, think at leisure about how to enjoy the recovering wilderness again in my advanced age without suffering horribly. Watching its cycles a few years before setting it up with latest, greatest technology I might want to tinker with a little.

Technology inside and outside home/studio version 2 which facilitates interests driving me toward achievement of still more goals, both planned and unexpected. Technology I suspect will be available by then that I'll be able to afford to obtain, to operate, and easily maintain.

Technology I can use in hands-on mode observing, measuring, and analyzing a wild healing.

Or operating autonomously, freeing up time to engage in whatever activity strikes my fancy.

Whatever the future holds, there aren't any reasons not to set some exciting new goals now.