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Retirement Strategies and Avocations

soup kitchen. Help hold and cuddle AIDS children.

Teach Bible classes to children by way of puppet shows

or whatever means is natural to you. The main thing I'd

suggest is choosing an avocation that will help uplift,

giving meaning to, and help others. Service to others

is good for the soul!

Clara Hinton, Shanksville, Pennsylvania

OUR CHILDREN ARE OUR AVOCATION! They are

a blast, and not nearly so foreign as one might be led to

believe. Parents who don't get involved with their kids

will lose the best time of their lives. Buddy and I have

never had so much fun as knowing our kids and

knowing their friends. We enjoy traveling together, but

we also enjoy doing things apart. I have two wonderful

friends at school, and the three of us do a lot of things

together. Buddy is the same way, so we don't live our

lives around our children everyday, but rather we have

a good variety of friends and hobbies. However, our

number one avocation is OUR KIDS -- they're the most

entertaining and fun!

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hancock, Pasadena, Texas

Be a Christian -- you just work in order to live. Work

to live, but live to serve God. All avocations are good if

they are honest work -- digging ditches, receptionists