Across the pond. But before I meet up with some other ‘Yanks tomorrow, I’ve a bucket list item to tick off. Heathrow, to Paddington station, to St Pancras station, to a certain Southeastern traing . . .
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The Puffin
My trusty pack looks like a Puffin, no? Our next adventure begins in London at RDV. Tracy will be catching up w us next week… in the Alps. #swirlsonthemove rep’in #lvpk for this leg of the journey!
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Remember
Never forget why you started.
~ unknown
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Photo gallery for this series
This post presents a gallery of ALL images in this series. You can click on any to enlarge; you can even click on the first, sit back, and it’ll run them all as a slide show. The gallery is dynamic so it will automatically grow…
Korean War Veterans Memorial
Power
You’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.
~ Glinda, in The Wizard of Oz, (1939 film)
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Sedona
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Nope
NOPE
I will not be lazy.
I will not accept what I have now if I know I can do better.
I will not sleep until I finish.
I will not leave until I’m done.
I will not tremble in front of new challenges.
I will not stop until I stop breathing.
I will be whatever I want to be even if it takes sacrifice.
Even if I have little to give.
Even if it takes time.
Even if I have no time at all.
I will succeed.
~ unknown
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Just showing off
Dinner this evening is line-caught Sockeye broiled with rosemary, brown rice and quinoa with sauteed baby portebella muchrooms, heirloom tomato from the CSA farm with EVO and basil from the garden, cold green bean salad (with garlic of course), mozerella drizzled with balsamic vinegar, refrigerator pickled cucumbers with onions …and no recipes :) #dinnerfor2 #cheznous @wildfoxfarm
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National World War II Memorial
Believe in yourself
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
~ Christian D. Larson
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Bank Street Creamery
Out for dinner in Easton for our 10th wedding anniv. Popped over to the Bank Street Creamery for some dessert!
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Grand Canyon
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Persistence
When you think you can’t go on, force yourself to keep going. Your success is based on persistence, not luck.
~ unknown
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*gasp* it’s hot
I did my QM homework this morning. Now I’m surrendering for the day. Hats off to the #lvpk women who are heading to Lancaster today… to train. Stronger wills than I they have!
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Motley crew from 2006
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Trample it beneath your feet
I don’t run away from a challenge because I’m afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
~ Nadia Comăneci
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Patience is the master key
Patience is the master key to every situation. One must have sympathy for everything, surrender to everything, but at the same time remain patient and forbearing… There is no such thing as bending or breaking. It’s a question only of overcoming, which begins with overcoming oneself. That cannot be avoided. To abandon that path is always to break in pieces. One must patiently accept everything and let it grow within oneself. The barriers of the fear-ridden I can only be broken by love. One must, in the dead leaves that rustle around one, already see the young fresh green of spring, compose oneself in patience, and wait. Patience is the only true foundation on which to make one’s dreams come true.
~ Franz Kafka from, Kafka on Love and Patience – The Marginalian
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Patience with myself is a huge hurdle. I’m my own worst critic. One critical comment from me, and I crumble. I regularly beat myself down and out with negativity, self-doubt and unreasonable expectations.
New mantra: Patience is the master key. Patience.
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Grand Canyon
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Breaking the bookshelf
Read all the books! Gee… about a hundred books on my to-read pile, where should this one go now that the pre-order wait is finally over?!
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