Category: When Your Life Changes

Waking up in your own bed, home

United airlines app screen
Upper left corner, 10:16am, 14 minutes from wheels up.

Everything you own that seems important to you is at your home.

Living away from that is a masterclass in stoic simplification.

i was probably between 55-60 years old when i first coined one on my favorite mantras…

Only pack what you can carry.

If it’s checked luggage, perhaps it’s too much.

Bonus: When i travel, my goal is one “kiddie-daypack”. If i need more stuff, i’ll take a second “kiddie-backpack”. The second one i wear across my chest. This process leaves me hands-free. Handsfree is an extraordinary way to travel.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

Sight or sips?

i enjoy eyesight more than happy hour. My happiest hours are seeing the world around me.

dad

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Retina scaring

retina photographs
Left is today. Right is one month ago. Worrisome is the retina “scarring” in the left photo.

You can’t plan for every adversity. But you can clear life’s runway for all types of landings.

dad

Remove non-essential habits, things, beliefs, people.

Here’s why.

You then make more room (perhaps all the room) for essential habits, things, beliefs, people.

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Post Op Day 28, home

Big Horn Sheep Ram head carving
Tree of Life. Several hours ago. At home now finishing today’s blogs.

i cannot imagine missing a single day blogging.

dad

Writing and publishing five daily, differently-themed blog posts since 2009 has made me wise, peaceful, optimistic, and grounded in my prioritized priorities.

i was all those things before 2009.

However, prolific writing for 5,500+ consecutive days transformed me.

Transformation is subjective, but universally, it means radical change.

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Post Op Day 22, home

21-second video: Perspective on where we’ve come from. And before this house, we were on a $7,500 lot and a $39,000 starter house. True story. Felt like we hit the lottery. Both making minimum Disney wage. One car and one bicycle. Thirty-miles one way to work.

Autopilot can be transformational and glorious. 

dad

Habits drive results.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.