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"cause the lesson that surfing teaches you is that you go surfing when there is surf or you go powder skiing when there is powder snow. You don't go next Tuesday at 2 o'clock, otherwise you become a loser with an attitude like that"

-- Yvon Chouinard

"... see the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier..."

-- Quote attributed to Gary Snyder from Jack Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums"

Get Busy

Less screwface, More neutral: In NYC the scowl is an unconscious defense mechanism. Sporting a goofy grin can be an invitation for involvement. Sometimes though the negativity can turn your mood sour. I am going neutral.

Appreciate more, envy less: What good are accomplishments if you don't enjoy them.

Do Something / Go somewhere that lets me forget about shirts and shoes.

Research less:

I have a bad habit of becoming very interested in something only to research it to death and never actually try / practise it. You only get better at something by doing it

“It is what it is”: E

xcept when you can make it better. Excuses and rationalizations can be a part of life, they are also lame. The less lazy I am the less I will need them

Grateful part 2

Sunrises more than sunsets.
Walk rather than drive.
Two stairs at a time.
Experiences not possessions.
Action over inertia.
Easier said than done...

Grateful

The trick is to remember everyday...

Dark side of the lens

Nothing else in the world excites, captivates, and terrifies me like the ocean. The combination of the unknown under the surface and the raw power it holds makes me nervously want to toss myself in and open my eyes as wide as they can go.


"If there’s no future in it, this is a present worth remembering." -- Mickey Smith

Sometimes motivation tastes like Gatorade or smells like a pair of new Nike's...