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Always a lot going on..

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I have had a serious of "near zero days" (reference hiking jargon), but I think they mostly just seem like zero days. I am getting stuff done, just not at 100% efficiency. Not sure anyone can move with 100% efficiency... Anyhow, I am planning on starting my next journey on May 1st. -- more details as they unfold. I know what I like and dislike. I know what turns me on and off. It's time for that knowledge to be guidance. We booked a trip to Wyoming/Yellowstone park in a few weeks. It will tackle at least three items that have been on my list 1.) Visit Yellowstone (in winter). 2.) A longish snowmobile trip. 3.) A visit to Wyoming. That will be my 50th state. That will make it all US states, 100 countries and all continents. I will likly be getting involved with MTP (Most Traveled People) https://mtp.travel/ where they break countries into regions. I decided I like this music. DiDuLa - "On the way home"

Bird day at the lake

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The first signs of spring are in the air here in Duluth GA. I took this quick pic of a bird meeting on Canary lake from the deck.

Rituals versus Routines

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Confucious impressed on us the importantance of ritual. The modern world demands our attention more and more. The external grabs of attention continue to steal our precious and very finite time. In practice, we cope with our limited attention capabilities by shorthanding, by repeating what we can do over time, hours, minutes, days and years without thought. Although the words ritual and routine are quite different. Maybe the concept is the same.