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You Can’t Get There from There

My beautiful Puerto Rico beach, the place I went to find myself by getting lost

What do you want? Right now, in this moment, what do you want, who do you want to be, what would you like to see in your life?

If you look around and see only what you don’t want to see, then it will be difficult to get anywhere new.

You can’t get there from there.

There are many injustices in the world. People are starving or being persecuted, there is racism and hatred, the economy is making the rich richer and the poor poorer, and the climate is changing. What’s there to like about anything?

But there have never not been challenges. Plagues, war, famine, earthquakes, and whatever happened to the Mayans are moments from history that show things have never been perfect. There is no heaven on earth.

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Squandering It Away

This was taken on my first trip to Puerto Rico, when I decided to find beauty and make sense of my life

There are lots of words in the English language. Some invoke passion, while others are more passive. The word ‘squander’ is powerful. It denotes the intentional wasting of an opportunity, or time, or money.

The actual definition is to waste something in a reckless and foolish manner.

Ouch.

There are so many things that we can do every day. We can make decisions to start an exercise habit, to begin to build our own business, or to find ways to help others.

Or we can sit in front of the TV, or play video games, and squander away the day. It’s a choice.

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