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Article – Secrets for a Good Nights Sleep
The following article is from The Mountain Training School (email: [email protected]). In the good faith department, I have known Ben, the founder and director of The Mountain Training School, for a few years and was a client of his on a trip in Alaska. I asked him if I could repost this article, and am…
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Lost Time?
Another work week comes to a close, and I realize the things I have missed lately, forgotten, and things waiting quietly on the night stand. The common phrase in these instances, besides just plain being busy, is that time flies. Of course, logically time flows at the same speed, at in the directions, no matter…
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Article – Of Experts and Death
The following article is from The Mountain Training School (email: [email protected]). The focus of this article is on knowing ourselves, our weaknesses and our strengths, and being honest. In the good faith department, I have known Ben, the founder and director of The Mountain Training School, for a few years and was a client of…
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Article – The Art of Asking Questions
The following article is from The Mountain Training School (email: [email protected]). While the focus is on the safety and life and death issues faced while climbing and guiding in the mountains, I am finding the concepts and lessons to be applicable each day and in my business. In the good faith department, I have known…
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Observation this evening
We live near a short-term care facility and often see people in wheelchairs as family spends time with them and helps them to enjoy the outdoors, such as today. What I saw this evening, has caused me to step back a bit, and remember my grandmother. Seeing an individual with dementia, and those moments when…
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Traditions
I’m getting older. While that is not the point of this post, it helps to explain the softening within and the certain appreciation for new and different things in life. Now I forgot what the point of this was… Traditions. I want to talk about traditions. What are they, and why do we have them?…
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Return to a Previous Life
Where do passions and obsessions come from? And, do they feed or lead one into the other? One day I awoke with thoughts of prairies and open fields, stretching for miles, right into the setting sun casting burning red rays across the landscape. I was not sure where this came from, and why. Over time,…
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Return
This has been a quiet weekend, with time to get caught up on, well, life. A recurring theme with thoughts and what is transpiring around me is the neighborhoods people grew up within, traditions, and returning to our roots. I grew up in NE Minneapolis, attended Lutheran church, and tried to survive the taunting of…
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Poem – Spirit
Staring at light green painted walls adorned with maps of Alaska nostalgia creeps within my fingertips and like exposed light free of dust, pure it permeates any wall I have erected and hits my heart. I see the places I have not seen. I taste the earth I have not touched. I breath the air…
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Listen and Respond
The path being taken is open to diversions, changes, bumps, and the occasional washed out road. What is important is how we respond, react, and move forward in the spiritual sense, not necessarily forward motion, as the next step may backward, or a jump to another, unrelated path. I recently received the most honest, straight-forward,…