Goodbye for now

Kangaroo
Yesterday.
Sunrise
Today.

Time flies. Blessed to be my own pilot.

dad

We have 11 more nights in Australia.

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Australia Day 9, home

Surf chalet sign
Definitely have Chalets on my mind. But a surf Chalet? Never heard of it. Now i have.

Now that i’ve reached 65, gonna try a full-time Spring Break vibe.

dad

Who’s gonna tell me it’s a dumb idea?

Note: Who’s gonna say it and think i’m gonna care?

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Yesterday’s Mooloolaba tour

30-second video: In we go.
Yellow boat
Where the Mooloolaba River meets the Pacific Ocean.
White boat
The Irwin family’s yacht. They founded, and run, the Australia Zoo by the way.

Happy present moment.

dad

The days are long.

The years are short.

The moments…never stop.

And i never want to stop noticing and appreciating them.

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Reverse Fathers Day, home

Teenager wearing a long white beard
Middle School play, backstage. Roughly the same year we made our first family of three Glacier trip.

What if you start thinking the opposite about everything you believe at home?

dad

Tradition and dogma imprint idyllic American home life.

Two cats and a dog.

White picket fence.

Couple of kids.

Tire swing on the big Maple tree.

Front porch sitting.

Vegetable garden in the back.

Surrounding the ‘idyllic American life’ is reality.

What if you thought differently?

Take ‘the perfect home’ for example…

No standard to attain.

No ‘keeping up with the Jones’.

No gluttony nor fear of missing out.

A roof over your head is the gift.

Living in America is your gift.

Clean water, drivable roads, flushing toilets, the Food & Drug Administration, public schools, law enforcement, and an endless list of world-class infrastructure and processes. This is the invisible American Dream.

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Home fun

apartment building
The yellow bookended pillars make our place ‘pop’ from a distance. Helps us know where we are in our new surroundings.

Crystallizing my priorities is my favorite home fun.

dad

Personal accountability could be a dark horse first priority.

Then after that ‘dark-horse’ priority, everything after that is the best order to achieve personal accountability.

Can you imagine how hard it would be to have ‘high motivation, high creativity, and high boldness’ without accountability?

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