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Australia Day 19, home

Teddy bear at beach — L-R: Jack, Cheryl, Chapin. Sanibel. Year unknown, perhaps 2013.

Walking is the perfect exercise. Running is second. Humans were created to do both.
dad

Plan for the worst. Hope for the best.

Running, i hope we remain lifelong friends and soulmates.

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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.

Australia Day 18, home

Eye surgery business card — Need to pick a cataract surgeon. One of two Dr Kumar referrals.

Woman next to green car — We had a few days between our WSU Residence Hall apartment contract ending and our next accommodations. We lived out of the car trunk and slept in our two-person tent at a little used County Park, not far from WSU.

Find a million ways to sustain and improve your childlike dreams, wishes, and magic.
dad

Like i say in my first book, (paraphrasing) “Remember your childhood dreams? Maybe you should dust one of them off and go for it.”

rethink * reprioritize * recommit

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Australia Day 17, home

three people at an outdoor dinner table — Finished the day with dinner 200 meters from the South Pacific.

Personal vibrancy demands never getting bored with life’s basics.
dad

Simple…

Never get bored with the basics.

Simple.

Simple doesn’t mean easy, but it does mean simple.

Life’s basics are habitually achieved by changing why, what, and how.

Habitually, meaning a habit that is automatic, repetitious.

The hard part is undoing a habit.

Focusing as much on undoing the present as you focus on creating the future.

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Australia Day 16, home

Three people in front of restaurant sign — We are two weeks into our own adventure.

Uber screen — Our return ‘flight’ to the apartment.

Small birthday celebration at restaurant table — Celebrating our adventure.

Regret sucks.
dad

Regret sucks.

Regret is unavoidable.

Then one day, you reach a fork in life’s road.

One path is ongoing life regret.

One path is over-focusing on intentionally eliminating regret.

Insight: Aim for perfection, settle for excellence. Meaning, while alleviating regret isn’t eliminating regret, alleviating is better than not alleviating regret.

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Australia Day 15, home

Plant with red and green leaves — Australia’s Wild Poinsettia.

Two people at beach — Castaways Beach on the return drive from Noosa.

Maps — Rare to be at a South Pacific beach. If we didn’t know where we are, we’d never guess our location.

Australia has confirmed my love for our home, Glacier, Disney, and Sanibel.
dad

Ps. Sanibel may be moving off my list of favorite places on Earth.

As an historic favorite, totally stays on the list.

As a current favorite, not any more.

Our favorite Sanibel place got destroyed by Hurricane Ian, September 28, 2022.

There’s no other place on Sanibel that will substitute.

Why?

It would be like moving to a different house in Orlando and still calling our new back porch and new front porch my two favorite places on Earth.

Our current home has been hand-crafted with Mother Nature over three decades.

Mitchell’s Sand Castles has ‘been in our Family’ since 1989.

Now that it’s gone, finding another place to be ‘our place on Sanibel’ would be like moving to a new home in Orlando.

Both would undoubtedly be nice, and comfortable. but neither new home nor place would have the ‘it-factor’.

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