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One beer turns into

hippy van — This ‘mystery machine’ is parked on Hastings Street in Noosa Heads. The mystery that happened yesterday is a $15-million home on Lake McDonald became available.

Stunning opportunity for someone with $15mil in discretionary cash.

Some decisions have life-changing adult responsibilities.
dad

The mystery of how young love can turn into parenthood after only one beer.

One beer turns into a lit cigarette…burning into a two beer buzz.

The rest as they say, is history.

Another Hardy song.

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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.

Goodbye for now

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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