2 days..Invest in yourself

Darwin or God?
Sooner or later it would help if we could validate our convictions

 

The greatest dream killer question in the history of the world:

But what if I’m wrong?

This is the one that we are afraid to respond with:

But what if this is the right thing to do?

Taking risks is risky. So is playing it safe.

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Guest blogger Lorie Sheffer: Nothing Lost

Moth

 

(photo: Lorie Sheffer)

When I agreed to walk my friend’s dog, the first thing I thought of was losing weight. Back in March, when the snow was still on the ground, I had a vision of what I would look like today, as summer is coming to an end. Surely I would be slimmer, more fit and toned. Five days a week, a half hour to an hour each day, for six months. I never expected that I would look the same much less weight the same. I felt as if I had failed.

Then last week, I noticed something on the sidewalk. It looked like a tan tarantula. I gently nudged the fat, hairy body with a small twig. This creature opened its wings and I actually gasped. The wingspan was about six inches; I had finally found a silk moth. My friend Julie had shown me a photo of one a few years ago and I commented that she “always got the good stuff” in her yard. “You have them too; you’re just not seeing them” she told me.

The sight of that beautiful tan and brown moth, its subtle colorings, those two markings that looked like eyes staring up at me, came with a realization of a much bigger picture.

I have seen snow melt to reveal spring flowers. I have seen the bare woods become lush and dense. The creek banks look as if they were on fire from the blooms of thousands of orange lilies. I’ve heard the deafening sound of frogs mating in the spring, only to go silent by July. I’ve had a daily check-in with a rather large snapping turtle, while marveling at the grace of a swimming water snake and recoiling at the sight of a copperhead. I’ve seen orioles and blue jays, swallowtails of both yellow and black and I’ve even spotted a monarch. I’ve collected black walnuts that have fallen to the ground and I’ve watched a groundhog chew on a discarded piece of cookie.

The past six months were never about what I was going to lose; they were about what I was going to gain.

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Three days until he sees 55

empty college town street
Looks and sounds different without distractions

 

To see what is right in front of us is one of life’s greatest challenges.

Why we struggle with this is a mystery.

What would happen to humanity if we could eliminate the phenomenon?

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Dare squared?

wall mural in Iowa City
Out on a jog, or was it a dream?

 

Wall mural
Dream or jog? Jog or dream? Grapes of wrath? The boy who cried wolf?

 

Having a dream and replaced Seth with jeff…the following review was written in 2007 for Seth Godin’s book, ‘The Dip’.

The one possible weakness of this otherwise terrific little volume is that it is aimed solely at people who are creative, intelligent and want to succeed. Those who are mediocre, unmotivated or just coasting through life will probably not get much from jeff. He is not an elitist, but his message is squarely aimed at those who want to succeed or at least achieve excellence.

Dare to dream.

Dare even greater… to do.

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