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A chord of three strands is not easily broken
I was just journaling about how critical it is to have someone in your life that is there to support you, through the good and the bad. It got me thinking about my trekking pole I always take with me whenever I am out hiking and camping. Most of the time I have it collapsed,…
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The dreaded “Shoulder Season”
Spring in Colorado! One minute you are basking in the warmth of the sun rays…the next minute you bundled up under a blanket. Plant your flowers at your own peril! You just don’t know what you are going to get weather-wise. There’s a reason ski resorts call it the “shoulder season” – not reliable for…
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Anything Can Happen
The point of a journey Is not to arrive Anything can happen Prime Mover 1987 One of my favorite all-time bands is Rush. Their music not only rocks, but their lyrics always seem convey some profound meaning to me. Most lyric-writing duties fell to band member Neil Peart, one of the greatest drummers of all…
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Bend…but don’t break
Friday and Saturday we had our annual – ” You may think Summer is next month, but you are delusional ” snow storm here in Colorado. Happens almost every May…one last reminder from Old Man Winter that he does not want to leave! Not complaining as we need the moisture…desperately! It is usually a very wet,…
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Entering into the Unknown
I’ll never forget one experience skiing at Powder Mountain outside of Ogden, Utah. I was riding the Timberline lift to the top, and I noticed the trees (and even the chairlift) around me begin to fade away. They were being enveloped by fog. It’s one of nature’s natural occurrences that I am enamored with. Fog.…
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The “Follow Me” Car
Do you have a “Follow Me” car on the road you are on? Or are you the one blazing a new road? Let me explain…. I’ve been flying in airplanes as long as I can remember. My first flight was when I was four; I’ve got a good 2 – 3 million airplane miles I…
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Why I started this site…
Robert Frosts epic poem, “The Road Not Taken“, is probably best known for the concluding lines in the poem: Two roads diverged in a wood and I –I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. These lines have commonly been used to depict things like seizing the day, not doing…