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Welcome to our Chuckling Chimes Website. We have a passion for lifelong learning. This website is our way of sharing our experiences and our ideas now that we have retired from fulltime work.

Here we are on our 2011 trip to India - standing across the river from the Taj Mahal - in the fading light of the sunset.

Some people think that we should do most of our learning when we are young - while our brains and bodies are clearly in learning mode. Other people see things differently. They think that we need to keep learning all through our lives. We are never to young or too old to learn. In fact, our brains and bodies are constantly adapting and learning every day of our lives.

We belong to the second group. We have been learners all our lives. Now that we are both nearly 70 years old and have been retired for and a half years, we think we are learning as much as we did as when we went to school or worked on out PhDs. We are having so much fun!

WHY CHUCKLING CHIMES?

Our house on Vancouver Island overlooks the Strait of Georgia . When the wind blows in from the strait, our wind chimes chuckle and clang. We both spent many years at school and in university. School bells and buzzers organized our days. Now that we're retired from full-time paid work, Instead, the chuckling of our wind chimes reminds us that every day is another opportunity to learn something new. We both believe strongly in formal education - but we love the freedom of being full-time lifelong learners.

While we are both still interested in the work we did for so many years, we now have time to learn new skills, new sports, new forms of artistic expression, new technology, new languages, new ways of being in touch with our environment and new ways of understanding our place in the cosmos. We have time to reflect on what we are learning, to challenge our old ideas, and to think about how learning makes us feel.

One of our most powerful ways of learning is by travel. Here we are in 2010 while walking on the Jurassic Coast part of the South West Coast Path in England.