And finally, during an 8-hour, rainy-day train layover in Paris on our way home to Stuttgart, we I decided to find and enjoy only one monument while there — Jim Morrison’s grave in Père Lachaise cemetery … “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks […]
I took a road trip this year to soak up the grandeur of (by climbing all the way to the pinnacle of) the Muenster Cathedral in Ulm (Albert Einstein’s hometown) … “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is […]
This is also the year I traveled to Africa and gazed in awe upon a cheetah (from just a few meters distance) in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Park … “The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and just as graceful when it is low.” ~ Richard Carlson
Thereafter I headed down to Tanzania to soak up the stunning expanse of the Ngorogoro Crater … “Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.” ~ Douglas Hyde
I then concluded my African expedition with a week of soaking up the peaceful calm of Bwejuu Beach (on the island of Zanzibar) … “I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.” ~ […]
And this proved to be a season that I still to this day call The Summer of Wonder; a season when I was blessed to get to know (and be inspired by) my dear Friend (still to this day) Rebecca Jean Pittman Nelson … “All in all, I would say that life is always pretty […]
Later that summer I headed over to the Olympic Peninsula (on the Washington coast) with some Friends to soak up the scintillating mystery that is Ruby Beach … “A longer stroll winding down the Way of Ways; to the shore we flow into waves’ translucence thunderous. We come to receive Her gifts of the infinite […]
It was around this time that I first came to realize that I must befriend “the beast within” (my own ego) before I would ever be truly free … “We’re going to need a bigger boat.” ~ Peter Benchley (from the movie Jaws) “When you choose to see beyond yourself, you will likely find that […]
And it was also around this time that I commenced seeking to learn how to Soar (as a deeply selfless Human Being). Of course, book learning and “deep conversations” can’t help us to fly in this way, for it is not possible to learn how to Soar without boldly taking that first leap (which I […]
And this is the year I traveled to Florida, where I soak up the perfect blue hues of the crystal clear waters of Wakulla Springs (the location where the original Johnny Weismuller Tarzan movies were filmed) … “Why didn’t you tell me that were creatures who look like me?” ~ Tarzan
I spent the better part of this particular summer living with my brother while soaking up the very fresh, very thin, and at altitude very cold air of Fraser, Colorado … “Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere … In truth, even from the top of the highest mountain, you cannot see […]
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