Boat trip, day 3, spirit

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A few minutes into our drive home.

Should we get sad at the reality of having to leave the water location?

No sadness.

Only gratitude.

Gratitude we had time, money, and desire to spend at our discretion.

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Boat trip, day 2, spirit

four seniors on a large swim raft
Just offshore from Egmont Key and National Wildlife Refuge and State Park.
four seniors on a large swim raft
Island time has a double meaning here.

Back to the water…

What is it that stimulates our mind, body, and spirit when we are next to water?

Does the mind, body, spirit stimulation change when we immerse ourselves in the water?

We are 80% water, so maybe our connection is ancestral.

When we immerse ourselves in water with a comfortable temperature – a temp we can spend hours in without discomfort – it’s uniquely stimulating in endless ways for endless people.

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Boat trip, day 1, spirit

Woman bundled up trying to keep warm on a boat
February 2026 was a colder than normal month in the Sunshine State.

Why does visiting a water feature stimulate our mind, body and spirit?

Who doesn’t love being near water?

We have this connection daily. Our back porch pool is enough to stimulate this water phenomenon.

Four parents originally and randomly connected by high school classmates. Now connected by a decade-plus-ago introduction, and consistently frequent get-togethers.

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Grateful for how it didn’t turn out

Disney Let the Magic Begin
Randy had no idea this was coming. It was cool to experience the delightful surprise vicariously through him.

 

Disney Keynote Speaker
i said, “Let’s get one with our back against the Castle wall.”

 

Disney Keynote Speaker
Two yutes having a great morning.

 

From the Idaho-Washington border (where i went to college), it was a six-hour drive across Washington State to get to Seattle. Then we began heading south to Los Angeles.

We drove down highway 101, the Pacific Coast Highway, most of the way, until it made sense to get on I-5. Our destination was my cousin’s relative’s house.

After spending a day or two there, we hit the road again for home (Pennsylvania).

In a thing called a phone booth, we called home on Christmas day from somewhere in the middle of nowhere Texas on I-10.

It’s kind of a miracle we made home safely, considering what we did in the car all those long hours of driving.

Grateful for how it didn’t turn out.

 

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Roots and wings

Ninth grade school trip at airport
Waiting to check his bag with some other classmates.

 

HS Freshman school trip
So much possibility when you are 15.

 

Roots and wings.

Four days and three nights in Washington, DC.

Airport check-in with teachers at 6:30am yesterday. Wheels up 8:30am.

He’s got a box (with four sides) to work within:

  1. Honesty
  2. Behave admirably
  3. Personal responsibility
  4. Self-control

Have the time of your life and stay in your box.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

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