Tag: abroad

Same day, different hemisphere, home

Sunset from jet
The window shade has been closed almost the entire trip. Same on the other two flights as well.
6-second. video: The start of something special.
Sunset from jet
The show lasts longer than most people expect. Kept my eyes on the sky. Most window shades the past 30 hours have been closed.
9-second video: Lyft ride home from MCO.
40-second video: Never gets old. Thank you Walt Disney World.

Thank you for everything.

dad

Life is not all rainbows and puppy dogs.

But it is life.

If you don’t expect more than some basic human needs, you can become astonishingly grateful.

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Fly home from Australia, home

Kangaroos
Our first Joey in the pouch sighting. Never expected this on our walk. Rumors were that dusk provided campus Kangaroo-sighting opportunities.
Kangaroos
Without even trying, we spotted four five Kangaroos.
Kangaroos
Three others. We suspect this mother had “twins”.

Magic never happens when you want it to. Magic happens when it’s ready to surprise and delight you.

dad

We all agreed a walking trip around the campus perimeter would be a good contextual framework for what will probably be weekly FaceTime calls.

With multiple options for the remaining two hours together, we chose to walk.

Little did we know the Universe was looking down on us and it Graced us with 16 kangaroo sightings between breakfast and dinner, starting with the three at Lookout Cafe.

Prior to our final day together, we had only seen the Reds and Greys at the Australian Zoo.

How do you score such an overwhelmingly wonderful experience?

Karma is the only way i can explain it.

Thank you Universe.

See you later, Australia.

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Australia Day 22, home

Mountains
L-R: Reynolds and Clements. From Oberlin summit. Jackson is the distant middle mountain, one of only six Glacier peaks over 10,000’.

i want and need prioritized priorities as much as my next breath.

dad

Not until you are fed up with your private life-at-home history and your home-life’s present will you be ready to burn the ships and move forward at home, never looking back.

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Australia Day 21, home

colorful painted wall
Sunshine Coast Health precinct.
4-second video: McDonald’s and Australian flags.

Be mindful of unexpected changes in yourself and others. Work like a champion to over-focus on solving whatever comes your way.

dad

They say, “People change” and “People never change”.

Both are true.

Be mindful.

Happy present moment.

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Australia Day 20, home

Disney Keynote Speaker Jeff noel
The hypothesis to the Disney Difference. It’s the way i summarize it.
mountains
Know how to be the only one on the trail to take a photo like this on of Glacier’s most popular trails? Over-focus on what the other hikers under-focus on or ignore. Easy-peasy (for everything in life) once over-focusing becomes a habit.

Be an artist in your own home.

dad

Aging should bestow wisdom.

But only if you over-focus on aging.

Over-focusing on aging in our home life means you are intentional where others are less intention, or completely ignorant, on pursuing home vibrancy.

At home, we reap what we sow.

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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.