Category: Dear Son

Dear Son, karma and luck are distant cousins

Sunrise near Walt Disney World
Yesterday, a Sunday morning (November 8, 2015) while working for two hours to keep up.

 

Dear Son, karma and luck are not the same thing. They may seem similar but there’s a distinct difference.

Karma, good or bad, attracts like-minded karma.

Luck, good or bad, does not attract like-minded luck.

We choose karma. We do not choose luck.

The notion that the harder you work the luckier you get seems romantically true. But luck and hard work have nothing to do with each other.

Hard work allows you to fail faster and more often. Failing strengthens your resolve and it also strengthens your creativity – both are essential in overcoming the things everyone must overcome.

Hard work, over time, builds something that can easily get mislabeled as “luck”.

 

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Dear Son, in the stunning presence of nothingness

father and son bike ride
Last night we spoke about Halloween (in three days) being the kick off for ‘running’.

 

Dear Son, in the stunning presence of nothingness, with a Big Bang Theory rerun on the TV, last night became one of the best nights of 2015.

Why?

Because you and i talked about ‘nothing’ for an hour.

We both wound up lying on the floor just chatting about ‘life’.

Unforced.

Unhurried.

No agenda.

And i remember it like it happened 10 seconds ago – that moment when i closed the laptop, set it aside, and slid off the couch onto the floor.

 

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Dear Son, a Sunday morning of epic proportions

Florida hawk on a fence
Yesterday morning during bike ride near Disney University. You rarely get this close to a hawk.

 

There are days in our lives when an event happens without warning and we are stunned.

Stunned at it’s abrupt arrival.

Stunned by the emotional turmoil that rocks our world.

Stunned at the aftershocks, even as new tremors erupt.

Yesterday morning was one such day.

Life will go on.

And it will go on in a better way because of what we learned as a Family.

 

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Wisdom can strike at any time

Church auditorium
Places like this you expect to hear wisdom, but not at the ATT Store.

 

Wisdom can strike at any time.

Even at a retail store for a quick grab and go a few days ago.

Expected the interaction to last about three minutes. But because of karma, it lasted about 15.

“You can’t blame someone else”, is the wisdom his grandmother taught him as a child.

This begs three questions, “Do we blame? Who do we blame? And what are we going to do about it?”

 

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The gift of freedom to learn your own mental lessons

Cocoa Beach Pier
Cocoa Beach Pier yesterday morning. Roughly a dozen surfers, barely visible, on the top wave swell.

 

This post is simple and direct.

We have a gift, freedom, and responsibility. The harsh reality is that only one person is responsible for our results.

The gift of freedom to learn our own mental lessons.

Life’s a beach?

And then we die.

Figure it out.

We have two simple choices.

It’s our responsibility to choose surviving or thriving.

No one is ever going to pick for us.

This will threaten some, and invigorate others.

This is also a clue, and our baseline understanding, of where we are on our journey.

 

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