Category: Quotes

Australia Day 16, spirit

National Park information sign
While i might be fit (for my age) right now, i am not really fit.
Mountain
Rebuilding fitness after it washed away is a poignant reminder how helpful fit is to a person’s choices.

Be an example, not a warning.

dad

Patience.

Perspective.

Practice.

Priorities.

Perseverance.

Repeat.

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Australia Day 15, spirit

Map
Laguna Bay is shaded by Noosa Hill for awhile after sunrise.
Surfers in the ocean
Laguna Bay is a Saturday morning surf hotspot. The sun is up, but has yet to hit Laguna Bay.
25-second video: An Australian Saturday Summer morning around 6:00 AM. Sunrise was 5:22 AM.

i love palm trees and sunshine. However, beaches to me are passive environments.

dad

There’s a time and a place for a beach vacation.

Our first trip to Australia is not it.

We enjoy our location, 1.5 miles from the South Pacific. It’s an easy 30-minute walk from our apartment.

We’d enjoy it even more if it was winter here.

Summer’s in Florida can casually be called ‘brutally hot’.

With 40+ Florida summers under our belt, we know how to thrive in Florida summers. We’ve designed our home and our habits for thriving, all year long.

But in a place 15 time zones away, we have no systems or processes. No history. No comfort level. No expertise.

Everything here is new to us.

i have what i carried (from Orlando) in two small ‘kiddie backpacks’.

Our apartment, and it’s grounds, is not remotely close to being my two favorite places on our planet.

And yet here we are enjoying ourselves at a high level.

The Australian Summer’s temperature and sun exposure, in our new and temporary setting, reminds me what personal vibrancy requires…

Systems and processes to balance all five of life’s big choices.

The heartbeat of our Orlando home is Walt Disney World.

The energy. The quality. The vibrancy. The back porch. The front porch. The time-tested and time-honed structure and processes. The intimate knowledge of the floral and fauna, the intimate seasonal vibrations.

Life is good at the vacation capital of the world.

Life is good here too.

It’s just not home.

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Australia Day 14, spirit

Tree fungi
Large tree fungi.
Tree fungi
Weird. Unique. Interesting. Only a few trees over a four-mile walk had it.

Walking, like running, is a turnoff in the Summer heat.

dad

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Australia Day 13, spirit

Resort Info sign
KondalillaEcoResort.com
Beargrass or optical illusion?
6-second video: Beargrass at Hidden Lake trail?
Tiny white mushrooms
Incredibly tiny, in real life.
Tiny white mushrooms
If you think the mushrooms are small, imagine the tiny ‘ferns’.

No one can make your mistakes for you.

dad

Once you embrace life’s weird, yet self-evident truths, you are now fully accountable. Do the thing you would wish for your children.

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Australia Day 12, spirit

Message written in the sand
Cryptic message only the family knows.
Australia Zoo Animal hospital sign
Across the parking lot.
Three adults at a zoo
Thirty-minute drive.
Three adults at zoo sign
Getting started.

When you are the owner, you are free to do whatever you want.

dad

Freedom.

It’s wonderful.

It’s risky.

It’s many things to many people.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Doing what you want may not be what others want.

So doing what you want can fail.

Doing what you want may transform your life.

And therein lies the rub.

The only guarantees are death and taxes.

Have fun being free.

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