Thoughts from my future self

7/12/2025 There’s only so many things you can do. You can’t do everything. For starters, do you know where you are? You better take a minute to get your bearings. You’ve been running pretty hard. It’s good to stop every now and then, look around, and think about where you’re going. Volume is important. Quality is more important. There is a place for dabbling and learning a bunch of things. But pretty quickly, you sight…
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On the road

7/9/2025 There is this fascination with with travel. Seeing new scenery for the first time, or seeing it again. Realizing that the world is big. Realizing what we like about somewhere else and realizing what we love about home. The everyday is important. The never-ending work just to maintain, not to mention to move forward, can easily make the grass on the other side of the fence look greener than it is. Seeing progress from…
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Attention

7/4/2025 Last night was the youth camp wrap up. It ended with fireworks. They were spectacular. And for just a few minutes our collective attention was focused upward. Like so many others, I was caught up in the marvelous display. It occurred to me that I was smiling and yet everything about me was completely relaxed. I glanced around very briefly and saw the same in the faces of those around me. For just a…
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