A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.– Lao Tzu. I will admit that traveling with no plans would freak me out. Yet, I have friends who can just get in the car and head somewhere and are perfectly content to stop when a place looks interesting. They have no…
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Summer Is Here
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal. – Paulo Coelho. Memorial Day is over and it seems like half the country traveled somewhere. The spread of Covid is diminishing and everyone’s thoughts are about returning to normal, whatever that means. Coelho’s words ring true. We have spent a year holed up in our…
Memorial Day
I would make a terrible speechwriter because words about this day should flow easily. So many have written and spoken about this day’s significance, but when I sit down to write the words don’t flow easily. Perhaps it is because my father survived both WW2 and Korea, so I don’t feel the same sense of…
Opportunities To Accomplish
Obstacles are opportunities to accomplish tasks in new ways. I derive a lot of pleasure when I come across a problem and find a solution on my own. Do you? Yes, I probably could google the answer or go to YouTube, but there is a real sense of satisfaction when I engage the brain cells…
Going Through The Motions
Armenian-American writer William Saroyan wrote in The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze a piece of advice that reads like a rallying cry to live life to its fullest: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste the food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible…