Every once in a while I like to write about inspiration. All of us need to identify what inspires us personally and then to figure out how to make "it" more a part of our lives ... every day. It really does not matter what it is that we find our inspiration in, it's about recognizing that all creation ... all innovation and invention, begins with sources of inspiration. All of us create. The concept of ... "Oh, he (she) is a creative person" is a misnomer that goes back to kindergarten when we were 'forced' to color inside the lines. I find great inspiration in having written this "newsletter" for upwards of ten years. I find inspiration in studying subjects I don't know about and then sharing them with you. We, literally, work on this newsletter every day of the month (including the cover letter).
I'm inspired by pithy quotes ... which is maybe why we have over 40 pages of them on the website. It inspires me to be playing a contact sport in my 50's. I'm inspired by watching young men play contact sports. I ring the cowbells.
As you read this I'm in Montana working as a wrangler on what is known as a "low impact camping progressive pack trip" in the Bearstooth Wilderness within the Absolka mountain range in the Yellowstone ecosystem.
I go by the name of Mitch ... stop talking and respond to my situation and circumstance based upon being a totally different person. I'm "all in" on the cowboy way.
I hope you, too, find some of your fountainhead of inspiration this summer.
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Spacecowboy - 8/20/2007 1:02:21 PM DST (GMT-4)
yessir! I'm all-in,too!Jes saddle up,head for the horizon..and keep your eyes on the skyline!
Mike - 8/20/2007 4:19:27 PM DST (GMT-4)
For 16 years a group of male friends and I went on a September pack trip in the Southern BC interior. For most of us it was a soul and head-clearing experience, so radically different from our business lives. We experienced sun and rain and snow and freezing sleet and dozens of challenges we would not otherwise have faced. And we beat them. Sadly, in these days of hip and shoulder and knee and back problems, I'm the last one who can still mount a horse from the ground so we bought an old diesel cruiser and now scare ourselves to death on the ocean.
bcodding - 8/24/2007 3:39:54 AM DST (GMT-4)
Speaking of inspiration and creativity, what caught my eye was "... goes back to kindergarten when we were 'forced' to color inside the lines." Isn't it interesting how American education stifles creativity at a time when business (where most of the customers of our education system are headed) needs more and more creative people. And federal government programs, such as 'No Child Left Behind' straitjacket teachers into teaching to 'the test', which allows little opportunity for learning how to learn (something that today's students will need to know how to do for the rest of their lives).
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