Tag: 2026

Teach hope, home

mountains and lake
Same place, slightly different look. This look is always on a spectrum: from modestly-dramatic to super-dramatic.

Teach hope at home…

Help others hope that they can discern their priorities.

Note: Priorities are a nebulous, under-rated, under-focused on, and remarkably neglected concept.

Show with your life’s example that getting this right leads to personal vibrancy.

Help others take one more defining step…

Prioritize the priorities.

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Harvest hope, home

old motel room
Spent 50 days and nights here in 2020. Now it’s Pursuit employee housing. Formerly known as West Glacier Motel. During Covid-19 (2020), Glacier’s entire 500,000-acre East side was closed to visitors.

Hope spawned from the goal (hope) of taking our son, 12, to Glacier for the first time in 2012.

Why?

Imprint something opposite from ‘all he knows…’.

He grew up every summer spending a week on Sanibel Island. Even before he turned one year old.

Palm trees and sunshine.

Flat.

Hot.

Sea-level.

The first year carried the hope he’d want to return a second time.

Why?

Simply to experience the paradox of Florida beaches…

Mountains.

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Compounded hope, home

mountains at dawn
Dawn. Driving (West) up to Logan Pass to summit Mt Oberlin.

The more i hope, the more i want to hope.

Simultaneously, the more i want to harvest hope’s lifetime compounded results.

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Disciplined hope, home

mountains
My favorite summit. At 8,200′, it’s a mild summit. Oberlin was my first summit because it was advertised as Glacier’s easiest.

Notes to myself:

If you met your 80‑year‑old self next week, what would he hope you stop postponing?

If you met your 80‑year‑old self next week, what would he hope you would start doing?

If you met your 80‑year‑old self next week, what would he hope you would stop doing?

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Habitual hope, home

mountain pass trail
Two posts back, “the trail on a photo’s middle left edge” leads here. Continental Divide.
Disney University
Yesterday started with a walk to here. That then led to continuing to Disney’s Magic Kingdom. That led to an 11-miler. Ps. Walked two more miles in the yard doing yard work. So yeah, a half-marathon on a Friday.
21-second video: A home-cooked meal awaits after bringing in today’s mail.

Great habits leave little-to-no-room for bad habits.

Take solace in this.

Exploit this.

Enjoy this.

Happy present moment.

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