Tag: Quote

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.
Beach sign
The ‘we were here’ photo.

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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Australia Day 14, home

Island
Aerial view of Noosa.
Wall map
Chamber of Commerce wall map.

Australia’s Sunshine Coast in the Summer reminds me that doing anything in the Summer heat is a turnoff.

dad

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Australia Day 13, home

Sunset between buildings
Clouds finally broke and i finally peered around the balcony wall.
Two mountains on a horizon
Glass House Mountains from the parking garage across the street.
Mountain
Zooming in.

The highest form of love is self-love.

dad

Lay down your old life so that you may save yourself and gain new life.

When the airplane oxygen mask falls, you take care of yourself first.

Why?

So you can take care of others.

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Australia Day 12, home

wombat
Wombat.
Koala
Koala.
tourist feeding a red kangaroo
Tourist.
man next to grey kangaroo
Storytime?
theme park bench
Steve Irwin was remarkable. The Australia Zoo is owned and run by his family.
13-second video: Beautiful end to a wonderful day.
5-second video: Two families. One human. One Kangaroo.

Nothing is more powerful than love. Love yourself.

dad

Again, do your best.

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Australia Day 11, home

Two people by snowy national park sign
Late September, 2022.

Teach others how to excel. In teaching you learn twice.

dad

Probably a good idea to reserve your helpfulness for two groups:

  1. Those who ask.
  2. Those who’ll pay.

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