Category: Glacier National Park

Thank you dear friend

mountain lake
October 3, 2020. Dawn.
  • Lake McDonald, you are so special.
  • Yo dude, give yourself some credit too. YOU are so special.
  • God gave you a special purpose – an insatiable desire to think, learn, grow, and teach.
  • You wisely chose three tools for your art: questions, paradox, and common sense.
  • The list of things i’m thankful for has no end.
  • Tip of the tip of the iceberg: To see. To hear. To smell. To taste. To touch.
  • To think. To move. To feel. To work. To dwell.
  • Tiny shadow to Earth. Big shadow to me.
  • McDonald Creek, as i drive East to Going-to-the-Sun Road’s other end.
Glacier National Park, October 3, 2020.

In everything, give thanks. Check!

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Hassle or opportunity?

traffic backup
Long lines often evoke hassle-factor emotions: impatience, lost time, lost opportunity. Waiting provides unexpected thinking, praying, and meditating time with a unique environment.
  • The backup at Glacier’s entrance is due to entering at 11:00 AM. Normally enter at 6:00 AM and encounter zero cars.
  • Starting later provides warmer temps, and fewer clothing layers.
  • The size belies the photo’s image.
  • In the midst of grand magnificence, a tiny insignificant shadow. How do you spot this? Why do you spot this?
  • The photo belies the shadow’s insignificance.
  • A glove just to add context to the smallness of the ground shadow.
  • A photo to offer comparison between grand and insignificant.
Glacier National Park, October 2, 2020.

When you change what you see, what you see changes. For example, do you have a hassle or an opportunity?

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Face it and learn

mountains
Afternoon drive to Logan Pass, October 1, 2020.
  • Heading back up to Oberlin.
  • Getting back on the horse, as they say.
  • Bright red Mountain Ash berries. Time to go home?
  • McDonald Creek.
  • Not even 24 hours have passed.
  • This is such an insignificant step across. The first time, wasn’t sure i could do it.
  • Made a cairn to be sure i wouldn’t make the same error twice.
  • Oberlin’s summit upper right. Oberlin has a long, slightly angled top, a couple hundred meters long.
Glacier National Park, October 1, 2020.

Learn to face your fears. Ignoring fear perpetuates fear.

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Different assets

post it notes with notes on them
September 30…two hours every morning: writing, thinking, reading, thinking, praying, thinking, meditating, repeat. The notion that assets are intangible, free, and yours.

Medicated, distracted, and entertained. We are. The devil’s way to hide the gigantic pot of gold. The antidote is a long asset list that’s free, overwhelming, and ours for the taking.

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Fight like you mean it

sign that says Lunch Creek
Lunch Creek has about 20 parking spaces, one mile East of Logan Pass. i am the first and only car here.
  • Pollock Mountain, center. Then reconnaissance over to Bishops Cap.
  • Only one on the trail. Only one on the mountain.
  • Doesn’t look this steep from the distance.
  • Something like 2,800′ elevation gain in less than 2 miles.
Glacier National Park, September 28, 2020.

Let your fights be with yourself. Seek out and win the biggest fights. Leave small fights for small fighters.

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