Tag: Friends

Smoke and mirrors?

Disney Character Pluto in Glacier Park
GNP. Grinnell Glacier Overlook.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends with them?

Abraham Lincoln

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Friends count

  • Mike and EJ separated when EJ was 12. Mike went to the hospital and never returned.
  • Chapin and EJ have known each other since age 2.
  • Best Mom in the Universe.
  • Coolest Mom in the Universe.
  • Most generous Mom in the Universe. Our neighbor had a horse.
Happy 46th birthday.

Friends count.

Common sense that makes even more sense when you hit 60.

In this Covid-19 world-pause, lots of reflection on our own mortality.

Updating your legal, end-of-life paperwork really zeros in on how death is the finish line for all of us.

In the end, who do you want to “speak at your funeral”?

This really focuses you on who your best friends are, and have been, during your life.

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Happy 58th birthday brother Howard

Glacier Park hikes
College buddy Howard Doran hiking to Grinnell Glacier last Summer, 2017. We almost walked into the Big Horn Sheep you see here.

 

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The only two humans at Grinnell Glacier overlook at 7:30AM, Labor Day weekend.

 

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Yeah, we thought some deep thoughts. It was impossible not to.

 

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Hiking up to Grinnell Glacier overlook, from Granite Park Chalet, after a quick breakfast (peanut butter and jelly sandwich).

 

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On the deck of Granite Park Chalet, just outside our room…Howard makes friends easily.

 

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Granite Park Chalet. Howard center-right edge, talking with a honeymoon couple.

 

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Highline Trail from Logan Pass to Granite Park Chalet is 7.5 miles…we have “Granite” in sight.

 

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About four miles into our hike, Howard is doing what Howard does – make people smile as he takes a photo of the entire hiking party.

 

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Howard reminds me of a Disney Cast Member – assertively friendly.

 

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We had barely begun our hike when we were confronted by wildlife.

 

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To say the place is beautiful is to understate the reality.

 

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Grinnell Glacier and our lunch stop for the day. More Magical moments initiated and created by Howard.

 

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Hiking Grinnell Glacier trail last year.

 

Happy 60th 58th birthday brother Howard.

This post happened because i wanted to text a (single, specific) photo to Howard yesterday for his birthday (i don’t like to use Facebook for birthday wishes).

Looking for that specific photo, i got caught up in many other nice photos of Howard in action.

Long story longer, i posted 15 photos on the Facebook feed and tagged Howard creating a much different message than the typical Facebook-provided-happy-birthday-wish (so uninspiring, to me).

From that, i decided to use 13 of them here today.

True story.

 

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You should know this by now

Disney Customer Service Speaker
What a wonderful sentiment.

 

You should know this by now – you are one of the most important people in my life.

 

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Why not me?

Disney World Guests
jeff, Teresa, “Mom”, Brian

 

Brian, a former Marine, and his wife Teresa have four grown children. They are visiting Family near Walt Disney World. We’ve known each other for 25 years. It was the first time meeting Brian’s step Mom.

During our leisurely lunch at Columbia Harbour House, we talked freely and abundantly about God and our infinite blessings.

Brian’s Mom shared how her husband died of cancer, and this led to a story about her overhearing a recently diagnosed cancer patient frustratedly asking aloud, “Why is God doing this to me?”

Just then, another woman (without cancer but who knew it well) said, “Why not me? Who am I that I should be spared from cancer?”

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