Category: Dear Son

The thing about everything, spirit

Isn’t it time your waiting is over? Yes. i planned to stop working. It’s finally here. Will that make me more patient?

The thing about everything is that everything takes longer than you plan.

Noteworthy, there’s an exception to nearly every rule.

Exceptions are rare.

We plan to be patient, forgiving, faithful.

Easy to plan for it when you haven’t been tested incessantly for decades.

And yes the tests last a lifetime, as far as i can discern from nearly seven decades here.

The goal for peace with who i am and being content with what i have isn’t a deathbed hope. It’s a hope, goal, and reality, daily.

Now.

Today.

Daily.

Until i die, whenever that may be.

It may take longer than i plan.

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Paperwork playoffs, spirit

Super Bowl 48 staff training at Madison Square Garden Theater
Super Bowl 48, 2014, staff training at Madison Square Garden Theater.

Lots of pressure in a final game.

Either victor or victim.

No one remembers who was second.

A paperwork analogy is weird because it’s not obvious to me.

Gonna surrender to my inability to come up with a paperwork final-game analogy.

Feels good to surrender to it and just keep moving.

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Purge like you mean it, spirit

Purge: To rid, clear, or free.

Spiritually.

Going through a lifetime of Disney paperwork, still.

Have done it many times, over my life.

Similar to the physical ‘paper logs’, there isn’t much spiritual paperwork. This too feels freeing. As if the unknown gamble paid off.

Love that i had deep faith in the concept of purging “stuff”.

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Ownership determines motivation, spirit

map of East Coast USA
Rough outline of my 1982 bicycle trip. It was three weeks and 1,100 miles from Philadelphia to Walt Disney World. Not the original vision. The original vision was to head West once in the Autumn warmth of ‘the South’ and then head North upon reaching the Pacific, to Washington State. My best friend lived in Pullman as a Residence Hall Director at Washington State University.

Ownership is what you learn after you think you’ve learned it all.

Take my 1982 solo, cross-country bicycle trip.

As a former Boy Scout, i learned and embraced the Scout motto, “Be prepared”.

Planned for everything.

Including what i’d need to do when my $75 cash ran out, and no credit card for a backup.

Felt locked and loaded when i left Philly and headed South.

But, i didn’t know i needed to plan for this…

Imagine no one is in a forest and a tree falls. Does it make any noise?

Now imagine seeing so much beauty on the top of the Skyline Drive, with the Shenandoah Valley shrouded in a blanket of low clouds and above the clouds stunning, peak Fall foliage. But i’m alone.

With no one to share the extraordinarily beautiful view with me, is it really that beautiful?

Insight: The answer is no.

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To each their own, spirit

To each their own.

Live and let live.

Live and learn.

Dear Son, our habits equal our results.

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