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My latest entry on My Old Coach is now live – in honor of Coach Gene Barber and our combined “glory days.” For this new website/book project, I am continuing to seek true stories and anecdotes about awesome coaches. Have an idea? Please get in touch.
Much to our good fortune, we are embarking on yet another new year when our blessings are too numerous to count. Our kids continue to blow our minds as they embrace life in their unique ways and show us true strength and originality, and our loved ones and friends are also persevering and inspiring, far and wide. Looking toward our future adventures, we are excitedly aware of vast treasures to come… and yet, today, these and other fantastic experiences from the past are what fuel my dreams. Roger’s journal, June 13, 2016: The hike to Ram Head, Saint John
I hope you enjoy the words and Rare Air episode 23, and I look forward to hearing from you any time.
In my earliest visions for “Rare Air,” I had a general sense of wanting to share nature with others in the loving spirit of some sage advice my late father-in-law Bill Kiefert gave me often, reminding me to stop and smell the flowers. This simple and essential idea goes a long way in defining what I am aspiring to do here… and yet, today I’m aware of a deeper lesson.
June's desktop calendar offers a sneak peek at good times and "Rare Episodes" to come.
So far in life, we have only visited Saint John one time – it was our “vacation of vacations” last June, as you can read in other entries I’ve shared in the past. When I tell you that Beth and I are set to return this July, you probably won’t be very surprised. I don’t know how often we’ll make it there, but I’ve been pining away for the next trip since we booked it earlier this year.
A simplified formula for achieving happiness by being momentous.
Where ever this day finds you, I wish you life's goodness in abundance, good friends and many loved ones to share it with.
In comparison, days like that make most others seem so routine and uneventful! If you get the chance to venture to any of these places, I hope you will seize it.
"Rare Air" is my original series of short travelogues intended to immerse us all in nature, if only for a minute.