"If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man." -- Wilfrid Noyce
Recent Blog Posts
July 30, 2016 |
Fearing Our Purpose
Do you ever fear your own light? Your own purpose? I do…. I sometimes get a glimpse of it and it almost frightens me, overwhelms me. For 20 years I’ve stayed just far enough away from an important step to go from a bright and successful person with personal struggles, to somebody who actually achieved what I was destined to do. You see, for me “achieving” was easy. School, grades, tasks, sports. What I could not find easy, was life. Whether it was my biology, psychology, being abandoned by my father, me feeling like I never fully fitted in but desperately needing to… Yeah, I had all of the normal traits you see and...
July 27, 2016 |
And, We’re Back….!! ( From a 2 year Hiatus – Update)
I slept 8.24 hours last night. Feeling blissful… I want to write. And help people through a variety of ways based on my life experience. So to begin this journey, I want to bring my Instagram account to life with a link to a website that has been dormant for 2 years. It was created to give me an artistic way of doing my therapeutic writing, and just didn’t get off the ground during what was….a very tough Fall and Winter 2014. But, much has happened in the last 11 months. It just hit me today was an “anniversary” for me. The last 60 days have been the most rewarding in...
October 5, 2014 |
A Sunday 6K Hike in Sweden for Fall Foliage Bliss
The weather in this part of Sweden seems different than I remember in 2012. The colors are more vibrant and temps are definitely more warm than that October. The high was probably around 62 again with nothing but sun. Maybe a tad bit warmer, even. When you are in the shade, the air is very cool and crisp. You need a fleece jacket on for sure. I typically hike the multitude of trails and routes around our farm in either old hiking boots (I was given a pair as a Christmas present December of 2012 , just prior to when I went to meet the women who is now my wife, and those shoes...