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Field Note #1:  Maximum Life Per Cubic Inch.

I'm not a "Gucci gear" kind of guy.  I'm about simplicity and efficiency.  I'm about maximum life per cubic inch... and that's what this expedition is all about:  Fitting the most life into the space I've been given.

Field Note #2:  "Home"

What is "Home"?  Is it a place, a person... or is it a feeling?  At 55 years old, I'm not sure I know the answer anymore.

I used to think home was a house, then a town, and later I wondered if home was a person.  Now as I prepare to leave almost everything familiar behind, I'm beginning to suspect home may be something deeper than any of those.  Maybe it's something we build...

Field Note #3:  The Hallway

Hallways are about transitions.  A passage from one place to another...  and the hallway is uncomfortable because it asks us to leave before we arrive.  But if we're wise... we'll derive "maximum life per cubic inch"... even in the hallway.

Field Note #4:  Legacy

Legacy is not built.  It's produced.  It is the residue of a life fully lived.  Not what we leave behind, but what continues because we were here.

Field Note #5:  Let's do it!

How do you get more life?  By saying yes to more life!  The people who live the most tend to have a simple default response: 

Let's do it!

Field Note #6:  The Journey

Let us not always rush to the destination.

The destination gives us direction... the journey gives us life.

Field Note #7:  Who You Share it With

Now is a moment... and home is who you share it with.

Field Note #8:  What is Love?

Is it a feeling?

A knowing?

A decision?

Or is it perhaps all three?

Field Note #9:  Secret to Happiness

Letting go of what was.

Enjoying what is.

Having faith in what will be.

Field Note #10:  Being Comfortable with Uncertainty

I don't know yet... and that's ok.

Some answers only arrive with time.

Field Note #11:  Truth

Sometimes you just need to let the truth be the truth and run its course.

Field Note #12:  Weather

Don't let today's weather convince you the climate has changed.  Weather changes... climate is revealed over time.

Field Note #13: Continuity

Continuity is the ability to remain yourself while the conditions change around you.

Weather shifts.
People shift.
Emotions shift.
Circumstances shift.

Condintuity holds.

Field Note #14:  The Expedition You Didn't Plan For

We prepare for the journey we choose.

Life often gives us the one we need.

The unexpected expedition is where we discover what remains when everything else changes.

Not who we were.  Not what we had.

But who we choose to become.

Field Note #15:  The Test of Time

What is real does not fear time.

It is revealed by it.

Field Note #16:  Stand in Stillness

Stillness reveals what urgency conceals.

Don't let discomfort make your decisions.

Field Note #17:  The Greatest Expedition

The greatest expedition is not finding the world.

It's returning to yourself, then experiencing the world from there.

Field Note #18:  Repair

Strong relationships are not built by avoiding disagreements or arguments.

They are built by learning how to repair.

Field Note #19:  Partnership

Partnership isn't proven when everything is easy.

It's revealed when two people choose connection over distance.

Field Note #20:  Loving

Love someone deeply.

But never love them so deeply that you stop living your life or lose who you are.

The right person won't extinguish your fire.  They'll eventually choose to walk beside it and enjoy its warmth.

Field Note #21:  Adaptation

A plan is not a promise... its a starting point.

Field Note #22:  Authenticity

The greatest expedition isn't discovering new places.

It's discovering who you are when the familiar structures are removed.

Field Note #23:  The Past

The past gets a voice, not a vote.

The past deserves to be acknowledged, to be honored, and sometimes to be grieved... but it doesn't get a vote.

We often think healing means forgetting.  

It doesn't.

Healing means remembering without surrendering your future.

Honor the past.  Learn from the past.  Be thankful for the past.  But don't hand it a ballot in the election for your future.

Field Note #24:  Timing

 

Timing is not always about waiting for the right thing.

 

Sometimes it is about becoming the person who can recognize the right thing when it arrives.

 

We cannot control when things happen.

 

We can only control how we prepare, how we respond, and who we become along the way.

 

Every step — even the unexpected ones — contributes to who we are becoming.

Trust the timine.

Keep becoming.

Field Note #25:  Weight

Not everything we carry is meant to go the distance.

Some things were valuable because of where they carried us.

But eventually we have to ask:

Does this help me move forward, or does it keep me looking back?

Release is not forgetting.

Release is making room.

​Field Note #26:  Thriving

I don't want to merely survive this Expedition.

I want to thrive in it.

To be fully present.

To explore.

To learn.

To grow.

To experience.

The goal isn't to control the journey.

It's to meet whatever comes with curiosity, courage, and an open heart.

This isn't an escape from life.

It's an invitation to live it more fully.

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