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- Follow Your Dreams No Matter What Your Age - by Submitted on Dec 30, 2020 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge At the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, you might consider your life on this planet as an “eternity” of 80 years, give or take. You may choose any style, any path and any attitude. You may live large, average or choose a “meek” existence. It’s up to you. It’s ...
Views: 445(1 vote) - A BLANK SPACE ON A MOUNTAIN AWAITING A MARMOT’S WORDS: “WELCOME TO MY WORLD!” - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2018 from Frosty WooldridgeVerdant green lodge pole pines blanket the Mount Holy Cross Wilderness region. A cobalt sky profiles rolling mountain tundra while gray rock peaks push against the universe. In the valleys, snow-fed sparkling rivers cascade over boulders, while wildlife munches, stalks or chirps its way through ...
Views: 691(1 vote) - BEAR SCARE, OR, IS MY HAIR STANDING UP FOR NO REASON? - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2018 from Frosty WooldridgeAdventure is not always comfortable; however, it’s still adventure. It’s not always safe, either. Whatever it is, it beats a couch, remote control and the inane, indolent TV any day of the week. Our first canoe trip of the summer proved green trees, blushing flowers, small wild animals, ...
Views: 782(1 vote) - Wildflowers in the Mist: A Backpacking Adventure in the Rocky Mountains - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2018 from Frosty Wooldridge“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter that the outcome, he will know he has been alive.” Walt Disney ...
Views: 715(1 vote) - Leap for Death or Leap for Life - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2018 from Frosty Wooldridge“Fear holds us and binds us and keeps us from growing. It kills a small piece of us each day. It holds us to what we know and keeps us from what’s possible, and it is our worst enemy. Fear doesn’t announce itself; it’s disguised, and it’s subtle. It’s choosing the safe course; most of us feel we ...
Views: 664(1 vote) - Talons in the Sky: Coiled Scales on the Ground - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2018 from Frosty WooldridgeHeading eastbound on our touring bicycles across southern California, the sun set low in the sky. We looked for a campsite in the rocky terrain east of Joshua Tree National Monument. “We better find a spot soon,” Sandi said. “I’m looking, dear,” I said. Up ahead, we noticed a ...
Views: 732(1 vote) - Difference Between An Average Life Vs. A Spectacular Life - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeDo you work a nine to five disinteresting job? Do you watch four hours of television everyday after work? Are your weekends filled with powerboats, beer and grilled ribs? Do you lust for the thrill of the NFL season? Will you be remembered for contributing something significant to the world? ...
Views: 1001(2 votes) - Death: A Tight Shoe Taken Off So You Can Find A New Way To Dance - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeLast year, seven of my lifelong friends made their transition back to the greater dimensions of the universe. One very young and the rest spread across a time line of decades. Each lived a spectacular life. You might say that each died with a grin on his or her face because they squeezed ...
Views: 1267(1 vote) - Pulling On A Life-Coat That Fits Your Aspirations - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeToo often, countless Americans stumble out of high school into ill-suited jobs, incompatible relationships and no plans for the future. They hang with discordant jobs in order to write checks for food, rent and car payments. Without using an ounce of common sense or rational thought process, ...
Views: 993(1 vote) - Pulling On A Life-Coat That Fits Your Aspirations - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeToo often, countless Americans stumble out of high school into ill-suited jobs, incompatible relationships and no plans for the future. They hang with discordant jobs in order to write checks for food, rent and car payments. Without using an ounce of common sense or rational thought process, ...
Views: 995(1 vote) - Speak Up About Something: Courage To Create Good In The World - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeHenry David Thoreau said, “The masses of men (and women) live lives of quiet desperation.” That equates to the fact that most people lack the courage or incentive to get involved with the great events of life within their communities, states or nations. When you attended high school or ...
Views: 1440(1 vote) - The Voluptuousness Of Living - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty Wooldridge“Everything is downhill from here, ‘cept what’s up…it’s all in your attitude.” Katie Lee, 95, Jerome, Arizona, singer, environmental activist. Long ago, before modern communications, before electric lights, before mobility—people wrote letters—shaping eachsentence with care, lamplight over ...
Views: 864(1 vote) - Living In The Conversation of Your Life - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeSix days a week, I wake up early, pull on my jeans and head to the recreation center where I commit my body to a two hour workout. I swim a half-mile, lift weights, run, bicycle and meditate along with stretching in the hot tub. Why? I engage those workouts to maintain my body, mind and ...
Views: 1038(1 vote) - Immortality: Ascending The Spiraling Staircase of Your Life - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeDuring your life journey, you may read different authors who share their insights with you. As a matter of fact, writers lay their guts on the line to aid, assist and support you on your own life path. So often, you hear older people say they suffer from afflictions, lack of energy and the ...
Views: 937(1 vote) - Betrayal: How It Feels & What To Do About It - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeThroughout my life, I have considered every human being on an even keel with me. I treat each person I meet with dignity and respect; and I expect them to return the same. I’m the guy who walks into the gym with a smile on my face and a greeting, “Top of the morning ma’am.” I open doors for ...
Views: 975(1 vote) - How To Empty Your Emotional Backpack When It Gets Too Heavy - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeEach winter I load my backpack up for mountaineering skiing to 10th Mountain Huts in the Rocky Mountains. I load survival gear to make sure I don’t die while I cross-country up to the top of 13,000-foot mountains at 40 below zero. In the summers, I load my backpack up for long treks along the ...
Views: 918(1 vote) - Your Destiny Sings In Your Ears At the Darnedest Times - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeEach time I stand up in front of an audience, I invite every person in the room to accept himself or herself unconditionally. “You are a one time miracle of the universe,” I boldly state. “Accept your height, weight, build, looks, hair, personality, mind, spirit and, well, everything about ...
Views: 935(1 vote) - Be Free In The Problem before You Become Free Of The Problem - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeProblems! Everybody experiences them. You might call “life challenges” your classroom for living. If you notice---every movie, play, sitcom, drama, thriller and adventure story features problems for the protagonist to face and overcome. Life deals everyone antagonists to overcome. Every ...
Views: 858(1 vote) - Along Your Life Path: Death Hides In The Bushes - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeAt the age of 17 while driving home from baseball practice, my father’s best friend pulled me over in my Chevy clunker. He walked up to my window with a sad look on his face. “Frosty,” he said. “I’ve got some bad news for you…your father died while umpiring the Albany-Valdosta game today. ...
Views: 893(1 vote) - Life Is Too Short: Get Off Your Cell Phone - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeDuring my youth, my dad took me fishing. My mom took me on bicycle rides. My dad shouldered me with a small daypack for hikes in the woods. He pointed out chattering squirrels. He helped me see my first deer. He pointed out a fox on a ridge. He hiked me into Glacier National Park to see my ...
Views: 926(1 vote) - Losing Your Friends: Vacancies of the Heart - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeAlong life’s highway, you will befriend countless people from school, work, sports and church. Each person offers you different degrees of friendship. Some casual, some close and a few become best friends. Gym-rat friends encourage you. Work friends give you fits, starts and frustrations. ...
Views: 896(1 vote) - What Do You Do With Despair? - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeOn your life journey, different events take hold of you whether you like it or not. One day you can be riding high; and the next, you feel lower than a well-digger’s rear end at the bottom of a mineshaft. Life doesn’t care about your looks, brains, wealth, status or age. Life treats you ...
Views: 967(1 vote) - Emotions: The Weight of a Sack Full of Potatoes - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeIn a presentation I attended years ago, the speaker asked the audience, “How much do you think this eight ounce glass of water weighs?” After many guesses, the speaker said, “The weight depends on how far you hold it from your body and how long you hold it.” In other words, by holding the ...
Views: 1310(1 vote) - It Happened To Elvis Presley: Infidelity & Betrayal - by Submitted on May 11, 2016 from Frosty WooldridgeOver the years, one of my friends married a beautiful woman and fathered two boys. He shared his pride with me as they grew to become men. I watched their pictures fill the entire front of his refrigerator. His boys adorned the walls of the living room and his office. Both boys graduated ...
Views: 1498(2 votes) - Harriet Anderson: 78 Year Old Ironman Champion - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeIn 2013, Harriet Anderson raced the Ironman Triathlon in Kona, Hawaii. No big deal if you’re 25, full of muscle, pep and vinegar! You can power through the 2.4-mile swim in ocean water. You can jump on your 27-speed carbon bicycle to ram through 112 miles of hot, dry pavement. Finally, you ...
Views: 1218(1 vote) - A Single Thread In The Tapestry Of Life: Tuscany, Italy - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeThe mystique of bicycle travel fascinates most people. Why would anyone “endure” the pains of providing their own locomotion via pedaling rather than the comfort and speed of a car, boat, plane or train? The answer lies in the antiquity of “pedaling bliss.” It thrives in the meshing of your ...
Views: 862(1 vote) - Illusion of Being Right: High Level Fear Wearing A Mask - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeWe humans make judgments on just about everything that comes into our eyesight. We judge ourselves when we look into the mirror in the morning. We judge our friends by the cars they drive. We judge strangers by the clothes they wear. We judge incessantly beyond the borders of our ...
Views: 990(1 vote) - The Point Of True Beginning: Your Perfection - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeBack in the 1880s while living as a sawyer in Yosemite National Park, America’s first ecologist, John Muir, lived face to face with nature. He climbed into the High Sierras throughout his life. He summited mountains, fished in clear streams and discovered deep secrets of Earth’s eternal ...
Views: 935(1 vote) - Find a Safe Place to Dance - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeIn your life, someone cheated you out of something. Another lied to you. Others gossiped about you. At some point, you suffered the loss of a friend, parent or spouse. Someone hammered you on the tennis court, chessboard or the boardroom. A spouse cheated on you and left for another woman or ...
Views: 931(1 vote) - Your Brain: Where Ideas Consummate Sex - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeCreativity involves anticipation mingled with uncertainty. For the record, ideas grow out of your brain through a simple yet complex union of egg and creative energy. What mental soil allows you to become a songwriter, poet, artist or inventor? Why do some of us “pop” with ideas while ...
Views: 999(1 vote) - Your Creative Mind: Unpredictable Collision of Thought and Circumstance - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeHow do ideas strike you? When do they hit? Have you heard of the phrase, “Stroke of luck…flash of insight…eureka moment!” Creativity involves anticipation mingled with uncertainty. For the record, ideas grow out of your brain through a simple yet complex capturing of creative energy. ...
Views: 1002(2 votes) - Your Creative Mind: Unpredictable Collision of Thought and Circumstance - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeHow do ideas strike you? When do they hit? Have you heard of the phrase, “Stroke of luck…flash of insight…eureka moment!” Creativity involves anticipation mingled with uncertainty. For the record, ideas grow out of your brain through a simple yet complex capturing of creative energy. ...
Views: 1093(2 votes) - Bottled Lightning: Skin Your Knees On Eternity - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeAt the beginning of my presentations on “How to Live a Life of Adventure” at high schools, colleges, civic clubs and church groups, my first words exclaim, “I live a spectacular life!” (Sometimes, you must express that “bottled lightning” with a kiss, a sport, a dance, a job, a moment, or ...
Views: 918(1 vote) - Choosing Low Self-Esteem: Carrying The Mental Equivalent For Self-defeat - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeMillions of Americans live their lives with low self-esteem. Teenagers learn it from one or both parents. Others choose it by comparing themselves with movie stars. Many young women mutter to themselves, “I’m not good enough…I’m not as pretty as Becky the captain of the cheerleading squad…I’m ...
Views: 966(1 vote) - Mother Nature Reaching The Edge of Silence - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeIn the corner of my office, near my computer, a white marble statue stands against a dark blue velvet cloth to create a dramatic contrast. The statue? (Beautifully sculpted Spirit Horse made out of metal junk such as spark plugs, forks, knives, spoons, springs, dinner plates, wrenches, pot ...
Views: 775(1 vote) - Death: A Tight Shoe Taken Off So You Can Find A New Way To Dance - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeLast year, seven of my lifelong friends made their transition back to the greater dimensions of the universe. One very young and the rest spread across a time line of decades. Each lived a spectacular life. You might say that each died with a grin on his or her face because they squeezed ...
Views: 984(1 vote) - Mountains for Breakfast, Sunsets for Dessert, Camping for Your Dreams - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeThis year, a longtime friend asked me to go on a bicycle journey with him down the West Coast from Canada to Mexico. The journey encompassed 2,000 miles of the Pacific Ocean, mountains, beaches, seabirds, whales, seals, otters, dolphins and endless beauty. It included Lewis & Clark’s Camp ...
Views: 767(1 vote) - A Single Thread In The Tapestry Of Life: Tuscany, Italy - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge The mystique of bicycle travel fascinates most people. Why would anyone “endure” the pains of providing their own locomotion via pedaling rather than the comfort and speed of a car, boat, plane or train? The answer lies in the antiquity of “pedaling bliss.” It thrives ...
Views: 1378(1 vote) - Your Invitation to a Great Life - by Submitted on Feb 03, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge In recent weeks, my son Trevor quit his well-paying pharmacy tech job in Denver, Colorado for a “room and board” position in a quiet village in the Austrian Alps. He sickened of his role in filling drug prescriptions for people addicted to poor health, synthetic ...
Views: 943(1 vote) - Erik Weihenmayer: Turning Into the Storm of Life - by Submitted on Feb 03, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Ray Charles learned to play the piano as he lost his vision during his childhood. In his 70 years, he scaled musical heights beyond the ordinary. Helen Keller, blind, deaf and mute, learned to read and write as she sped toward becoming one of the 20th century’s greatest ...
Views: 1265(1 vote) - Your Inner Life Elevates Your Outer Life - by Submitted on Jan 07, 2015 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Back in our college years, my younger brother cut himself shaving one morning. He bled all over the washbasin. Blood ran down his neck and into the drain. (Everyone hits some “deep” snow on their journey through life. You can choose to get stuck in it or keep ...
Views: 891(1 vote) - Crossing the Bridge into 2015 - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Quick as a wink, Christmas faded into our rear view mirrors. Up ahead, a brand spanking New Year 2015 awaits! New possibilities! Fresh ideas! A new set of 365 days to accomplish something marvelous in your life. What actions will you take in the New Year? How will ...
Views: 1652(1 vote) - Your Subconscious Mind Works 24/7: Harness It - by Submitted on Dec 25, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Have you ever wondered where songwriters, poets, sculptors and artists come up with new ideas? How do inventors create concepts that morph into Smart Phones, miniature drones and ocean liners? Who dreams up a screenplay for a movie or the design for a new ...
Views: 1156(1 vote) - You Can Do That: The Key to Your Life’s Successful Path - by Submitted on Dec 17, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Have you ever faced a situation that caused you to question yourself? Did you confront a teacher that you disliked or a fellow student who badgered you? Have you dwelt with co-workers that made you tear your hair out? Welcome to the human race! When I grew up, my ...
Views: 964(1 vote) - Societal Exhaustion in Our High Speed World: Slow It Down - by Submitted on Dec 15, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge You live in a high speed, high stress society. Everything ramps you up to meet deadlines, reach class on time and excel at work. You face texting, emails and Smart Phone recordings. If you’re a parent, you must take the kids to soccer practice, swim meets and sports ...
Views: 899(1 vote) - Unleash the Daring Dance Within You - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Sometimes in life, no matter your stature, success, sartorial dress, rich or modest home, friends and magnificent job—you may come to a point of getting down on yourself. If you live by modest means or in poverty, you may come to the conclusion that your life sucks all ...
Views: 1433(1 vote) - Attune to Your Heart, Mind and Body: Gift of Appreciation - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge While growing up, you faced many challenges. You tackled schoolbooks that demanded your attention to gain knowledge. Your teachers busted your butt with homework assignments. Your parents piled on chores such as mowing the lawn, washing the car, taking out the trash, ...
Views: 870(1 vote) - Boyan Slat: Cleaning up 300 million tons of ocean plastic - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge “Once there was the Stone Age, then the Bronze Age, and now we are in the middle of the Plastic Age,” said teenager Boyan Slat. “Ever year, we produce 300 million tons of plastic. Much of it reaches our oceans.” At 16 years of age, Boyan Slat scuba dived off Greece ...
Views: 1288(2 votes) - You Against Yourself: Which Wolf Wins? - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge At one point in history, President Thomas Jefferson faced a national crisis. He said, “We have a wolf by the ears; he’s too dangerous to keep and he’s even more dangerous if we let him go.” Jefferson also spoke about his own battles within himself. You may find ...
Views: 1038(1 vote) - Lori L. Bell: Pedaling for Peace - by Submitted on Nov 08, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Lori Bell pedals a bicycle around the United States in order to create a much-needed discussion on America’s continual participation in wars: she pedals for peace. Bell, 49, single, and having taken a non-traditional path in her life and work career—decided America ...
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