June 16, 2013 In the same room as us and the biker club sat an older couple. They were just behind Sam, so I could see them pretty clearly. They hobbled in with their canes and crooked backs and sat down across from each other like they had done many times before I’m sure. The …

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June 16, 2013 The day we left Mt. Shasta we ate at a “famous” local restaurant called Black Bear Diner. The food is good, usually fresh and in substantial portions. The place is filled with bears of course, and there is a sense of wilderness both inside and outside. This particular restaurant has been there …

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June 4, 2013    When I was training with YogaFit, we heard this mantra in almost every class, “Letting go of competition, judgment and expectations…” I could understand letting go of competition, and I could work on letting go of judgment, but expectations? I thought it was pretty strange to let go of expectations when …

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June 4, 2013 In several conversations with campers this past week I mentioned that I have family on both coasts. Lots of people respond with the same story—met here, got married there, moved there, had children there, now going back and forth from one place to the next all year long. “And we love it!” …

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June 8, 2013 Tomorrow we leave the foothills for the ocean. We will drive up I-99 and I-5 through what remains of the hot, dusty central valley (we’re already near the northern end of it) toward Mt. Shasta where we will camp for one night. We have taken this trip before, but I wasn’t awake …

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One of the main motivations for me to come back to California, other than having an actual job, was that I would get to see my two daughters, Jennifer and Rebecca, and would be able to attend Jennifer’s graduation ceremony in the middle of May. She has just finished her Master’s program in psychology, following …

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