29
June
2007
Well, I’ve been in Alaska for a week now and it’s had a profound effect on me already. My mind is clear, I am grounded, and I have direction. It’s amazing how this happens here for me. My wife and I have had so much fun here so far, and we have 3 weeks left! Here is a short list:
Our friend up here rescues wild birds and we had a pet raven for a few days.
I helped build a wood shed on the farm here.
I’ve seen 2 moose so far.
We got to go to the bird rescue headquarters and saw eagles, hawks, falcons and more up close.
Fished the world famous Kenai and Russian Rivers.
We actually got cold up here which is a nice change from the 115 degrees temps in Phoenix.
Saw the farmer on the land hay the fields.
Watched our buddy Bill fall into the frigid Russian River.
Saw 2 movies at the theater, Die Harderer 3 and Waitress.
It is just amazing how wonderful I feel as mosquitos try to bite my typing fingers. I’m sitting on an adirondack chair on the deck of a log cabin overlooking a farm and the surrounding gigantic snowtopped mountains. What a get away from the city life. Very little distractions, no TV reception, I barely get internet and cell phone service. So I think, read and relax. I am almost finished with Dr. Demartini’s book How To Make One Hell Of A Profit And Still Get To Heaven. As usual, he finds a unique and spiritual approach. And I plan on following many of his ideas. I realized that I have been quite the slacker in most areas of my life. I set it up so I have money flowing in automatically. Then I stopped working pretty much instead of accelling at what I do well. I live comfortably, but can have and do so much more. So I decided I am done with settling, time to expand. I have my programmer in Romania working hard again on my project. I am going to start saving money and may sell my rental property to buy land up north. My wife and I are thinking about building a home there. Less distractions seem to do us both good. It’s so easy to lose focus with as much sensory input we get.
So I will be mostly living in a tent in the forest on an 80 acre farm pondering my belly button for the next 3 weeks. It seems a lot of people were jealous that I get to go up here every year which seems absurd. Just follow your dreams, live your imagination, and the result will be worth it. Or don’t, just sit there and be jealous or angry or happy that somebody is having a good time. Either way, I am taking care of me and I send you love and light from up north.
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28
June
2007
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined. - Thoreau
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21
June
2007
One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. - Michael J. Fox
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21
June
2007
So tomorrow I leave to Alaska for a month vacation. Last year my wifie and I helped build a log cabin and this year we get to stay in it. I am sooo very excited! It’s hot here in Phoenix, maybe 115F today. Alaska was 71 yesterday. It almost doesn’t seem real, gone on vacation for a month. Life is so very simple up there. Don’t really watch TV, like to read the paper there. There is always a funny bear story like the guy who heard some noise downstairs and got up. When he opened his door there was a black bear standing there a foot in front of him! That would wake you up!
But Alaska for me is a spiritual journey. I grow so much there. The life is simple, no crazy war, barely any cars, and people are simple, nice and friendly. We stay on an 80 acre farm next to another 1000 acre one. There are horses next door and a muskox farm close by. It stays light 22 hours a day right now so you never seem to get tired. We play horseshoes, swat mosquitos with electrified tennis raquets and watch them explode. You see 1500lbs mooseses on the side of the road grazing like cattle. And the salmon runs are amazing. At some times you can see literally thousands on 20-30lbs salmon swimming upstream. One bay we were fishing in had an estimated 13 million salmon in it. A fish was jumping out of the water every 10 feet for miles. Every so often you see a bear, but they don’t bother you. We are doing a fly in fishing trip and should have bears all around us. There is an educated guide with us so there bears won’t bother us. Besides there will be zillions of salmon for them to eat.
Alaska seems so far away from the crazy life. It is just relaxing. The mountains shootup so high everywhere. And the glaciers are an amazing site. It seems we need to cleanse our spirit periodically or we begin to decay. I try to do that everyday, but this trip will no doubt be an enlightening experience that will elevate my soul.
Also, we have a new writer Corey and you can see his awesome first post below this one! If anybody would like to write too, let me know.
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20
June
2007
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
Henri L. Bergson
In the past during difficult times I would get frustrated by the placing of an obstacle (better word would be a lesson) in my path. I sometimes would get angry because things did not appear to be going my way. I would feel as though everything was working against me. ” I can’t believe this is happening again.” I would mutter. ”Why me? I am a really good person. I try to do good, I mean I help other people……..you remember that guy I picked up when his car broke down last week….. COME ON!!!! I DESERVE A BREAK!!!! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME?”
I am humbled and grateful…. I realize that even in my darkest hour the heavens were conspiring for my benefit. I could not “see” and my mind could no comprehend what was going on behind the scenes. Those very things I cursed have in turn become some of my greatest blessings. I was being given tools or “gifts” that would come into use latter in my life.
Let me say that it is not my belief that it is intended for us to live a life of suffering or that the stairway to heaven is a bed of hot coals which one must throw himself/herself on in order to be enlightened. I know that through the exercise of understanding that ALL things are for our betterment. It is only then the glass is not half empty or half full…it overflows.
Here is one of my personal life lessons 101 that I share with my children. This one I never read in a book. It goes something like this. “Be careful of the things you curse….for often times the gifts of greatest value come wrapped in plain wrapping and are smeared with dirt. They are heavy, cumbersome and might appear to be of no worth. We might not get to open them for many years. It is only through the roughness of the road that the wrapping paper is torn. Little bit by little bit the packing is worn down. It isn’t until we are prepared to see or until we are prepared to do, that we see the brilliance and beauty of the treasure that we have carried around. Although it may have always been there, it did not just lay inside waiting for us to discover its beauty; its purpose was there to try to help us see ours.”
If I could say one thing to the Universe or God it would have to be Thank you for my gifts……ALL of them 
Corey
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19
June
2007
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mahatma Gandhi
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7
June
2007
I was listening to a Tony Robbins cd on a camping trip and had a moment of clarity. He said that the quality of our lives is dictated by the questions we ask. And a good one to ask is “what am I going to create today?” I wake up now asking myself that. When I go to bed I ask myself what did I create today. This gives me some sort of accountability for what I did, what choices I made. And I like the results.
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