Ordinary gifts day 1, body

Funny saying about working out
Sanibel Island gift store item, 2017…2017 was a great year for this little Sanibel Island gift shop.
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Sanibel gift shop 2017.
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Sanibel gift shop 2017.

Ordinary gifts?

Yes.

What are ordinary gifts from your experience and perspective?

They arrive every single day.

Roof over my head.

Clean drinking water.

Clean shirt.

Indoor plumbing.

Electricity.

Food in the kitchen.

My iPhone.

My desire to write five daily, differently-themed blog posts.

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The wild places, body

Spring Grove, PA welcome sign
Photo from years ago when i was still able to run. My Small town, USA. My creek, barn, and “woods” is a mile or two from this welcome sign.

Why do you love the wild places?

From an early age, nature and all of Pennsylvania’s wild things, bugs, flowers, birds, creek critters, fish – all of it mesmerized me.

Inexplicably felt blessed by this before ever learning what a blessing is.

As i grew closer to 10 years old, i started walking further from home.

Why?

To get to the creek across the corn field.

To get to the barn across the two-lane country road (highway).

And to get to the woods well past the corn field’s creek and up the hill through another corn field. The ‘Woods” as we called this small (couple, three acres, maybe) un-plowable patch of land, full of trees, brush, rocks, and creatures untold.

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Family epiphany, body

healthy eating
Common sense can be rare. Look at your own habits.

Family epiphany?

Yes.

But it’s an uneducated, unscientific, unproven observation…

To me, my amateur epiphany is that many ‘hereditary’ physical ailments are magnified because of hereditary lifestyle habits.

My family tree signals overweight and obesity.

i imagine if i didn’t change my ‘hereditary’ lifestyle, i’d be obese, on a menu of prescription medicines, and dealing with the side effects, etc.

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June 1, 2026, body

dog on beach
A Cast Member discount got us to Sanibel Island the first time in 1988. A dog got us there the second time. And after three separate yellow labs in our life, we visited every year for 30 years.

Happy June 1, 2026.

While the Summer Solstice is three weeks away (June 21, 4:54am), Since childhood, i’ve always celebrated Summer’s arrival on June 1st.

Why?

As a kid, i actually thought Summer began at the beginning of the month. June = Summer.

Had no clue what a Summer Solstice is.

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