Tag: Glacier

Spiritual couch potato

mountains
From Pollock’s summit. In person it’s the closest i’ve come to feeling like “breath-taking” is the perfect description.
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Looking left from previous photo.
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Looking farther left from previous photo.
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Capturing Logan Pass peaks and Heavens Peak.
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The bulge is Mt Gould. Literally in the center, before Gould, is Bishops Cap. That’s where we are headed.

Adventure is out there.

Pixar’s UP

Being in the season of life when your odds are unusually higher to encounter health challenges simply because of age…

Not a fan.

Because it’s new, and naïvely unexpected, it feels a little scary.

Not scary like i can’t handle it.

Scary like i can handle it, but i don’t want to, ever.

Kinda like some of the trails i’ve hiked and realize the risks should be more earnestly considered.

So i’m looking around at life’s sixth-decade landscape and becoming increasingly aware this is uncharted territory.

The thought of possibly losing sight in one eye is scary.

But i may be thinking about an issue that seems scary simply because i am a novice.

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Iconic Continental Divide image

unique mountain ridge formation
As the camera pans out, you begin to see how uniquely this one rock feature is an anomaly.

i will never forget the Universe’s generosity in allowing me to lose vision at home, not in Glacier.

dad

What a difference 36 hours makes.

Insignificant in a 60-plus year lifetime.

Critical in potentially saving a life, or at a minimum, not making things worse.

What if going blind would have happened in our Glacier Lodge room?

What if going blind would have happened on a trail?

What if going blind would have happened on a deep-in, remote trail and i was hiking alone?

Insanely grateful for it to happen 36 hours after returning home.

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And so it goes, spiritually

6-second video: Driving deep in. Fifty years ago on this same road, in a chartered bus with 50 Scouts and chaperones, almost dark and no distinguishable landscape features visible until the next morning.

i love the privilege of daily blogging on five uniquely different topics.

dad

Being in uncharted territory is a prime example of opposites.

On one side, uncharted territory is an immense opportunity.

On the other side, uncharted territory could be your demise.

My advice…

  • Have fun
  • .think .differently
  • Lean into discomfort

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Blog anniversary (not) in GNP, spirit

The world record for most blog posts by a single author is 17,212. i’ve written 10,000 more than that and each year 1,825 posts get added to my total.

dad

Five-a-day multiplied by 365 days per year equals 1,825 yearly blog posts.

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Not Back to Glacier, spirit

Handwritten note, left on car dashboard
First-world challenge, collaborating with Kasey on a solution in an uncertain future. The van is packed with our stuff and the keys (and us) are in Orlando.

Surrender to any notion of entitlement.

dad

Three retina tears, including one that started to detach the retina, are a routine repair for Dr Kumar.

Nothing about this past week is routine.

It is all new.

All scary.

All uncertain.

As each day passes – and this is only day six since losing vision – the future options and outcomes seem slightly more reassuring.

By no means is there any guarantee. None are stated. None are implied.

Hope for the best. Plan for the worst.

Happy present moment.

So grateful to live in the United States, have access to great insurance and first-class (world-class) health care providers.

Blessed beyond measure.

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