Indoctrination. My first job after college was on a financial management program… THE financial management program of its time. It was a shock to my system. My college years were ones of freedom. Choosing my tribe. Choosing my classes. Choosing my methods to be successful. Intense studying, all nighters over and over, but with equally…
T -136 Days: Surfing first snow
Surfing Lake Michigan in December with snow on the beach! Can’t wait to be a year round resident.
T -137 Days: 2:30am
Another 2:30am and wide awake, thoughts spinning about work, trying to will myself back to sleep. Unsuccessful, thoughts find a new target… moving back and forth between two books to come. Soon. Very soon waking in the middle of the night won’t matter. Instead of worrying about squandered sleep, facing a work day with a…
T -138 Days: Ikigai… “a reason for being”
Ikigai… “a reason for being” The diagram below is the usual way of illustrating the concept, but I find it imperfect. Why does “What you can be Paid For” have to be so central to self-actualization? Randy Newman famously sang “It’s Money That Matters”…. but it was irony. Ikigai … without being paid for it…
T -139 Days: Happiest Seaside Towns
“You are moving to Michigan? Brrrrr, way too cold” “You are living on a beach? No you are not… it is a lake” So let’s see… 2017 Happiest Seaside Towns. Hmm, Grand Haven is on the Top Ten List… just behind… no one. Grand Haven is #1 Shhhhhh maybe it should be kept a secret…
T -140 Days: Replacing memories
I once possessed a special skill that came in handy during college. Anything I marked with a Hi-liter, I retained in memory for several days. For some classes, I was able to pull an all-nighter, reading the book for the first time, madly highlighting anything and everything remotely important. My faculty advisor thought it was…
T -141 Days: Dunes
Winter is finally coming to Grand Haven. A dash of snow so far, but tonight 12-16 foot waves on the lake and up to 17 inches of snow. Bring it on, this dog is ready. Would be an exciting time to be there…. but only 20 more weeks!
T -142 Days: If you want your dream to be
If you have been with me since Day 200, you know this blog wanders. I like to view it as purposefully multi-faceted. The obvious and perhaps mundane day-to-day in preparing to move to Michigan. Stories of the past. Current observations of Michigan. What comes to my mind on a daily basis. But always there, deeper, is…
T -143 Days: 10 Reasons
Lets try a list today. My 10 reasons to move to Western Michigan (not in any order, except for how they tumbled from my mind) Beaches and dunes…. beautiful and varied, up and down the long coast Sunsets over Lake Michigan… every night, my wife shows me beach cams and pictures, soon they will be…
T -144 Days: Our last house
Our house is a very, very fine house With two dogs in the yard Life used to be so hard Now everything is easy ‘Cause of you —- Graham Nash Our house will become some family’s joy, as it was ours. The open floor plan, the wall of glass looking out onto the deck, the…