took your advice

 Just to keep you in the loop with events since attending my second seminar with you.  You may recall I was feeling pretty low and I took your advice on how to overcome depression and tried meditating.  Not an overnight success, but in a relatively short period of a couple of months, I heaved out my blood pressure pills and my anti-depressants and have never looked back.  I found it helped me achieve a balanced view of life in general.
Fast forward to May 1st, 2014, we moved just down the road to take retirement just a little more seriously.  Mid May saw us winging our way to Bali to catch up with Son (also a graduate of your course) who is on secondment for 12 months at a university at Jog Jakarta.  Ensconced in a Raffles type hotel at Jog J, my wife thought she had better take a dekko at her emails   -  there was a letter from receivers informing us our tenants had gone to the wall and declared themselves bankrupt, owing us $20,000 in rent arrears. This bad news was quite out of the blue, but for me the Indonesian holiday was over. The long and the short of it, we decided the best way to cut our losses and resume our income flow was to reopen again in our names.
Something of a pain in the arse because I am now 70 and my wife is 65, but fairly drastic measures are required at desperate times. On the plus side, we both enjoy general good health  (which we must never take for granted), and have retained most of our marbles.
Anyway, we relaunched the shop in August to much fanfare and after huge amounts of work remodelling everything, and touch wood, it seems OK. I approached a book distributor about the possibility of a franchise, as there are no bookshops in this town, and it seems 98% certain we will be taken on board.  
So, never a dull moment. My son just emailed – he is now back in Fiji for another 12 months – sure beats  the Queensland public service. B.R. QLD