Greater Scaups facing challenges of waves on Lake Michigan on a blustery sub Zero temperature day

It’s been more than a few days since I’ve been on the trail for a few reasons. Sometimes reasons seem like roadblocks and can be highly frustrating when I’m trying to “get somewhere”. But once I grasp the concept that even the challenges are part of the journey, I begin to see the opportunities that lie even within the challenges.

… Sometimes the struggles are there simply to slow us down and remind us that there isn’t a rush in the journey .. There’s only “urgency” when we feel some particular need to get to the end. Why do we humans always want to get to the end? …

Even an Oreo cookie’s best part is in between (forget the bad nutrition for now.. This is a metaphor, LOL)! They Even made Double Stuff cookies when I was a kid and then different flavors of icing to put between the chocolate end points. It was the chocolate cookies that remained constant and the stuff in between that was exciting, adventurous, rich, always changing, challenging (you could lick it in many ways), and held the most intrigue… Such it is with life … The magic and the mystery that lies in between the start and what we call destination…

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