A simple wish for everyone today

Dog tracks in sand on Sanibel Island

 

(photo: unknown dog tracks on Sanibel Island)

Personal organization. One of life’s five big choices.

Grief gets worse before it gets better.

Especially sudden, shocking grief.

Wishing everyone 24 hours of relatively little pain, if that’s possible.

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Two things that facilitate joy

jeff noel's birthday cupcake in Iowa City
Completely caught off guard by a colleague and the staff

 

Joy is as joy does.

Being organized and intentional facilitates joy.

And it facilitates being less distracted, less entertained, and less medicated during the small day-to-day opportunities to feel amazingly blessed.

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Stress from playing catch up is one of the biggest inhibitors to living in the moment

Pool equipment
Be organized enough to have time to handle the predictably unpredictable challenges, like a serious leak

 

Be organized enough to have time to handle the predictably unpredictable challenges.

We get buried and we dig ourselves out.

Sometimes we recover quickly.

Other times it takes forever.

In either case, the stress from playing catch up is one of the biggest inhibitors to living in the moment.

To living with joy.

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This, son, is freedom…

Two loaded down 18-speed Trek touring bicycles from 1983 Honeymoon

 

(photo: A very non-traditional honeymoon, one year ‘late’ and as far away from normal and traditional as you can get)

Dear son, we’ve talked about all too common approval addiction in society and how the parental focus for us has been on you finding your worth in what you have accomplished, not in what someone else is pleased with.

It is in our self awareness that the approval from others is no longer necessary, nor even desired.

This, son, is freedom.

And joy.

Happiest of days.

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Actually getting butterflies about this

hidden Mickey
A butterfly wing design, a hidden Mickey, both?

 

Actually getting butterflies about this.

Two more days.

What’s gonna happen when we reach the day when there is finally a cure for an incurable disease?

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