Let my life be my medicine, mind

lotto cards
Gamble With Your Health?

Can i let my life be my ‘prescription medicine’?

Conventional wisdom, historical wisdom, common sense wisdom…

Take care of yourself.

Who on this planet doesn’t get that?

However, in some parts of our world, all that means is survival of the fittest.

Having said that, supremely grateful to live in a first-world Country.

It’s never lost on me, not for a single day, that paved roads and clean drinking water is a privilege many will never see their children enjoy.

Take care of yourself.

That’s how we started this post, and that’s what inspired today’s post titles.

A couple days ago had a six month check up with my urologist. At my request, we’ve moved from an annual checkup to a biannual checkup.

In our short conversation, we talked about my health and how i’m trying to eat my way out of having to take statins. Dr. Kata said he’s been on statins and doesn’t think they’re bad.

This is where today’s blog post titles were inspired.

Without missing a beat i said “ i want my life to be my medicine”.

There, now you have it.

Note: Our son has an incurable disease. He requires medicine. This post isn’t meant to portray that i’m oblivious to how medicine changes lives. Our family is intimately aware of how it does, since 2004.

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Blogging’s hidden blessing, mind

Mid Life Celebration
Writing is a great way to process thoughts, hopes, dreams, etc.

Dear Son, to me, blogging’s hidden blessing is its love for the writer.

When i write, i’m talking to someone specific.

Namely, me.

You and mom are the ripple-effect, potential beneficiaries.

Yet for many people who blog, they are solely trying to make a living, so they’re talking only to potential customers. No harm, no foul.

But for an ordinary person like me, i’m talking to myself, Mom, and you.

Love.

All around.

Blogging’s blessing of love is mostly a solitary effort. Yet it can be freely shared. That is a writer’s distant hope. That love falls on loving ears.

The modest insight may bloom. It may not. If or when other loved ones read the writer’s thoughts, observations, insights, and musings, magic may happen.

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One day it will, mind

Examining A Disney World Parade
Can remember most of this day like it was yesterday.

One day it will.

Will what?

One day will come.

And it reminds me of a Garth Brooks song…

If Tomorrow Never Comes.

Chapin, on this day, April 11, 2026, if tomorrow never comes, you absolutely need to know this…

i could never be more proud to be your father.

You are extraordinary.

i am more proud of who you are, how you think, and what you’ll become than anything else i’ve witnessed in 67 years.

Note: These posts will publish June 11, 2026.

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Memento Mori

Mountains
Ascending Ahern Peak. Few people attempt this because it’s deep in the wilderness. In a perfect world, it would be cool to go even deeper in, this Summer.

Memento Mori…

Remember that you are going to die.

Carpe diem…

Seize the day.

Why?

Because if you don’t, you may never get the chance.

That is a crappy way to die.

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Until further notice?

Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park (GNP). West Glacier entrance. Flashback 2019.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by mistaking, by giving, by losing.

Anais Nin

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