Morning in Merida
Sitting on the stairs in Trina and Moises’ garden courtyard, sipping on coffee while a table full of young people chat in three or four languages nearby.
The view from my desk
The view from my desk
My new plan with this blog, as I’ve mentioned before here, is to stop trying to knock everybody’s socks off with incredible travel photos of exotic places, and just let it be a web log of my real daily life. I know everybody likes pretty photos, and when I have them, you’ll get them. But I don’t always have them!
So today’s photo is just the view from my desk, a little Tulum still-life for you. I’ve been in bed with some kind of nasty flu for over a week, and this morning is really the first day I’ve felt something like normal and healthy. I feel contented and peaceful just to have work to do and a nice place to do it.
Alive and grateful
I’m just getting over a week of being pretty sick. I guess it was some kind of flu; whatever it was, it kicked my ass. I couldn’t get out of bed for most of the week and didn’t eat at all for 6 days. Thank God for neighbors Marci and Caleb who helped me figure out that not eating had gotten my electrolytes all messed up. Gatorade fixed that within a matter of hours. Now I’m just not sleeping well, and still just worn out from the whole ordeal.
Meanwhile, I pretty much missed my own birthday on the 18th, plus 7 beautiful breezy blue-sky Caribbean days. Phooey. But hey, I’m alive, and grateful.
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Set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” — Andrew Carnegie
“If you are bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things—you don’t have enough goals.” — Lou Holtz
I’m thinking about the future, about where I’m going and what I want to do. Where would I like to be six months from now? A year from now? At this moment, I have to admit that my vision isn’t well-formed. But I’ve cleared enough of the static out of my life and my thinking that I know I can start really looking forward now.