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Summer solstice 2025, mind

Neil Young album Decade — First heard this album in 1977. In Ramsey Hall, freshman year at West Chester State College (now West Chester University).

Note: i am writing this post in October 2024, knowing it will publish on June 21, 2025 — the Summer Solstice. As always, this calendar juxtaposition is a unique reflection tool. Stumbled upon the phenomenon many years ago. The time-distance grew from one day to one month, to multiple months to now eight months.

As analogies go, perhaps Summer Solstice is the human lifecycle peak.

Expanding this analogy, Autumnal Equinox can then be the life cycle on the far end of peak life cycle.

Winter Solstice can be the final, ending life cycle.

A decade of Disney retirement (this month) and feeling like a flabby old man (also this month, and also the song title if you look closely) prompted this post’s photo choice.

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Change what you see, mind

Snow-covered mountains — Winter 2024, descending into the Flathead Valley.

You know the drill…

When you change what you see, what you see changes.

Change your thoughts, change what you see.

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The need to grow, mind

Flight map from USA to Australia — Growth mindset implores you to prioritize your priorities. Our priorities after safety? Service. Service to God, Family, self. Then finally, simplicity.

The need to grow is an important concept. It’s a simple concept too.

Stumbled upon a poster while a college Junior featuring a Bob Dylan quote. It’s timely for this post:

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Perhaps my biggest mental growth is honing my focus and discipline to be able to steer my thoughts to stay in the present moment.

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Favorite thought? Mind

WordPress admin Screenshot — Bottom of this photo you can see yesterday’s blog title “Haves and wants”. Every other day above that line is pre-loaded with blog post title ideas. And what you see below is what an admin dashboard looks like normally. Actually what is below is not normal. Most don’t plan to blog daily, so they also don’t plan to pre-schedule the admin parts of their unwritten posts.

Favorite thought?

Wow, that’s a challenging question.

This thought came almost instantly, after a brief moment of ‘this will be impossible’…

The only limitations i have are those i impose upon myself.

Note: Penned that thought in 1980 while journaling during a week-long Outward Bound outdoor experiential course.

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Haves and wants, mind

Sunrise over the Great Plains — We spent three weeks in this room and every morning we had a view like, or similar to, this.

In my opinion, get-to-do vs have-to-do is a concept easily understood.

Wanting more or wanting less is not as easily understood.

Wanting less transcends dogma and tradition.

There are few role models for wanting less, publicly.

Privately, having a family role model is almost a freak accident.

We are left then with what looks like twins. Haves and wants are mushed together like creativity and innovation. For the record and for this example, creativity and innovation always get mushed together.

Context: Anyone can generate creative ideas. Few can go from idea to successful, scalable application.

Back to haves and wants. We are societally conditioned to want more. Which feeds an insidious detachment from ever thinking about seriously wanting less.

i seriously want less.

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