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Way back in the day

woman sitting on a ferry boat next to some bicycles
Taking risks is risky. So is playing it safe. Cheryl and me island hopping during our 600-mile cross-Washington State honeymoon.

Way back in the day we only had one car.

We parked our car and threw our bicycles in the back of a Professor’s pickup truck and hitched a 600-mile ride across Washington State.

Then we rode our bicycles back home to Pullman.

Have been trained since an early age and actively practicing lifelong outdoor skills and wilderness survival tactics.

If Rafiki wasn’t my favorite Disney character, Mougli would be the fav. A boy at home in the wild.

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All you get

Encounters like this are common. But you have to slow down, way down.

All you get is one body.

Do not waste it.

Please.

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Exercising my heart

Dan Fogelberg souvenirs album back cover
Dan Fogelberg Souvenirs album back cover.

Dan Fogelberg’s Souvenirs album became a counselor and a confidant to a High School freshman, who knew nothing about love.

Souvenirs became a hiking map for a newly discovered adult wilderness and what that meant long-term: love, marriage, settling down.

Much like exercising your heart for cardiovascular strength, listening to Dan Fogelberg was exercising my heart for relationship strength.

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Even when it’s freezing?

Two AC units one covered in frost
The 30-year old unit covered in frost. The newer unit is unaffected.

You rarely hear me complain about freezing temperatures.

Why?

Because we made a conscious decision to live where cold temperatures are rare. Hence the complaint rarity.

This morning we awake to 35 degrees.

Reminded of and reflecting on how living someplace where this is common for months at a time is never an option for us.

Do what you should do, when it should be done, even if it’s hard.

Waking to year-round sub-tropical temperatures makes today’s exception a rare inconvenience, not a lifelong pain in the butt.

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Care like Michelangelo painted

1982 calendar
January 25, 1982. First day of Disney Traditions. It was a Monday.

*Care – for your physical wellbeing – like Michelangelo painted.

January 25, 1982…the 3-day Disney Traditions class at Disney University.

About 70 days later, all hands on deck for the two-week Easter (April 11th that year) peak-attendance season.

It was 14 days straight and sometimes double shifts.

What the front-line Jungle Cruise leader told me was my first big leadership lesson at Walt Disney World.

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