Fear – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

You know what?, home

Grinnell Glacier Lake — Stromatolites were the first life form on Earth 3.8 billion years ago on the ocean floor. Photo: Next to Grinnell Glacier. A stone’s throw from Piegan, Pollock, and Bishops Cap.

You know what?

As much as you love things and don’t love other things, the Universe could care less.

Truth, we are gonna die.

Dust to dust.

Note to self: Be ever mindful of humanity’s wisdom over the past 6,000 years. Not eons. Less than 10,000 years. Out of 4,500,000,000 years That’s 4.5 billion by the way.

To be well over a mile (almost two in some cases) high and stand on stromatolites…

Words are incapable of describing the science behind it all.

But one thing for sure, there is no faith or hope that they once existed and how they gave birth to the oxygen we take for granted with every breath, for an entire lifetime.

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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.

Fear of success?

If we lived life unafraid of death, what would change?

We don’t fear death as much as we fear something else.

We fear having to change into who we know we really want to be.

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Pretend to be normal, home

Friendly reminder: These blogs are me talking to me. Either in real-time, or from memory-lane.

What is normal?

Thinking that having priorities is enough.

You are insidiously delusional when you innocently avoid prioritizing your priorities.

This was a fun trip down memory lane. And a bit of self-gratification while admiring my self-issued, imaginary Masters Degree in Personal Vibrancy.

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Don’t let the sun go down

unique mountain ridge formation — In a few minutes the stunning light fades. We drove from the East over Logan Pass. Literally 300 meters from the Pass this view suddenly becomes available. Our timing to see a setting Sun find a small opening to set this section on fire is humbling.

Never count on random people to transform your life. However, sometimes it happens. Enjoy the karma you project.
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Meeting Steve and Stacy Wahlberg on the backside of Reynolds Mountain at 8,600′ is absolute randomness.

World-class randomness for sure.

We saw something in each other, without trying.

The Universe aligned us that cold, windy, yet brilliantly sunny morning.

We were the only three people on the mountain.

i was hiding from the harsh wind behind the lone boulder in the expansive scree field.

They were heading up for their 12th Reynolds summit, in honor of Stacy’s father, a true mountain man.

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2020 flashback

15-second 2020 video: As the camera pans you immediately see Pollock Mountain, Mt Siyeh, and Piegan Mountain.

5-second 2020 video: Acknowledged the news of Covid-induced, 30,000 Cast Member layoff. Had no idea what to say, so i kept it simple and gut-level.

These two videos remind me of the September 30, 2020 Oberlin (8,200′) summit.

In the moment, it felt scarier than the close (15′?) Grizzly Bear encounter at Granite Park – the one where i had to turn my back on the Grizzly and continued walking.

A rare – and a first – sunset summit.

Just a quick jaunt up and back. Shoot a couple client videos from the summit. Then boogie on down to the car.

Without explanation, i got lost on the summit and couldn’t find my way down.

Have written about it before and will spare a rehash now.

What’s noteworthy in this post is the spectrum of emotions captured on these two videos. And, the emotions never captured on video that evening.

Duplicate Update: Starting tomorrow all five blogs become an “unthemed-canvas” of sorts. The normal mind-body-spirit-work-home theme goes on hiatus until this “couple-week project” concludes.

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