In four days I will complete my 65th trip around our closest star. The stunned surprise I feel from saying that is difficult to overstate. I am also ecstatic to say it.
From the moment I was born at the end of the Korean War in a Naval Hospital in Bremerton, Washington I have loved being alive and tangled in the human experience. It can often be messy but in the end it is what we have. We are conscious. We can experience. We possess memory. We have our senses and our emotions.
We live.
In these pages I will think out loud through words. I will look back. I will explore the present. I will dream of the future. I will live up to the Mission statement my wife, Julie, and I share:
“To manifest health, safety, and joy for ourselves, family, friends, and our shared planet.”
Let’s get on with it.