"Way leads on to way"

  September is almost over, yet though time now generally slips away in record time, September has seemed like a long month.  It's the first September since I started first grade that I haven't gone back to school in some capacity, except for a few years when I worked at the Education Department, and that was school-connected in a way.  The month also serves as a reminder that for the first time since I was eleven years old, I haven't been employed in some capacity.  Being thus free and unencumbered brings with it a sense of isolation previously unknown.  I now subtract employers and co-workers as well as students from my circle of existence. No staff meetings, no emails, no letters, no messages left on my answering machine, no deadlines,  The way our society is set up, and at all levels, is when your services and presence are no longer required, contact tends to cease.  I could learn to knit, or quilt, or join a book club---but as one of my kids used to say, "Aw, 'it!"