D. Journey or Experience

D. Journey or Experience · 26. March 2018

It's not what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.

It’s not what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you. You’ve heard that. Most of us think if we could master that, what would happen to us would change. Go ahead and laugh. We don’t want to change, we want to keep doing what we do. We just want to get back to being ourselves. We already know, what happens to us is not going to change, we just wish it would. In fact trying to change what happens to us seems always so temptingly much easier. Deep breath, little laugh, what...

Is Adventuring an Art?

I remember, me and my wife, taking our young nephews up to the mountains one summer. We went up to over 11,000 feet. You can imagine my excitement when I saw snow in the shadows of the trees and hills. WOW! I found a place to pull the car over where there was some good size patches of snow. We got out and these boys had no idea what to do with snow. They were, southern Californians, and never really seen or been in snow. They had no clue. They didn’t even know how to get properly excited...

Chef trained!

I can’t stop the feeling! Feelings pop into my mind from triggers and machines I’m running. I can’t stop it unless I stop the machine or redesign the machine or adjust the triggers. How do we get these triggered feelings? How do they all work together? Read these words and see what pops into your mind: Babies, Puppies, Vomit, Blood, Sports cars, Truck, Home, Office building, Doctor, Teacher, Hamburger, Broccoli, Chair, Table, I’m sure a picture of sorts popped into your mind with each...