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- 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: 1432(1 vote) - Bird Tracker on Bicycle: Dorian Anderson - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge “Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.” ~W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions Individual passions glide on America’s ...
Views: 1144(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 ...
Views: 1316(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: 738(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: 909(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: 939(1 vote) - Always Sit Down Wind of Flowers - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Susan Schutz said, “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.” (Stopping to inhale the fragrances of flowers along your journey.) Years ago, I backpacked in Nepal, Tibet and other parts of Asia. I distinctly remember the peace and quietude of ...
Views: 1350(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: 911(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: 893(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: 832(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: 1022(1 vote) - 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: 969(1 vote) - Change your life with P.A.C.E. - by Submitted on May 01, 2014 from Frosty Wooldridge“How you doin’ Jack (or Jill)?” I asked a recreation-center friend last week. “Same ole, same ole,” he said. “Come on man,” I said. “We’ve got ski season in full swing. That’s got to put a spring in your step.” “Probably so,” he said. “But I need something new to fire me up.” He ...
Views: 734(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: 1014(1 vote) - Cloud talk—sitting on a cloud after you passed away - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge A few weeks ago, a preacher spoke about a new term that I never heard before: “Cloud talk—when you die, you elevate to heaven where you sit on a cloud. You may look down on the planet to see where you lived. You may contemplate what you did with your time on Earth. How ...
Views: 782(1 vote) - Co-create your life journey - by Submitted on May 01, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeMost people stumble through their teens, stagger through their twenties and meander into their thirties. By forty, they suffer a mid-life crisis before bumping into the Big “5” “0”. From 50, they face the last third of their lives with a sense of a downhill slide. Most never lived any ...
Views: 804(1 vote) - Coming Through the Fire: Your Road Less Traveled - by Submitted on Oct 27, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy the time you reach your senior year in high school, it dawns on you that this life offers no easy path. You discovered the only way to succeed academically or athletically: study your butt off and/or practice your sport until your body felt like a speed-bag in a boxing gym. You learned that ...
Views: 875(1 vote) - Creating solitude for your spiritual bliss - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Americans living in big cities race through their days with gridlocked traffic, honking horns, cheeky taxi drivers, police sirens and jostling pedestrians racing toward their destinations. At work, they juggle temperamental co-employees, deadlines and ashes-in-the-mouth ...
Views: 777(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: 1695(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: 1034(1 vote) - 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: 1329(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: 1355(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: 1315(1 vote) - Extricating yourself from the dark night of the soul - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge In today’s world, you face enormous challenges of time, work, family and friends. You face many toils along with trials that rise up in front of you like a blazing attack of dragons. While you endured cliques, politics and different kinds of instability during your ...
Views: 681(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: 978(1 vote) - Fleeting Pleasures: Manufactured Happiness - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Today, you may take a trip to Disney World for the ride of a lifetime. A quick excursion on a Caribbean cruise promises to whisk you away from the world’s troubles. Drug stores offer pills to cure your headaches, insomnia and sexual dysfunction. A gleaming car races ...
Views: 1038(1 vote) - 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: 495(1 vote) - Forks in the road, stop signs, cul de sacs and dead ends on the highway of life - by Submitted on Mar 31, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge While taking a hike down a country road near dusk in my teens, an old farmer, plodding along with his walking stick, abruptly stopped me. His wrinkled-weathered skin did not diminish the energy in his clear blue eyes. Silver locks flowed from his wide-brimmed hat while ...
Views: 674(1 vote) - Gossip: the devil’s radio - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Gossip remains the mainstay of social media, sewing clubs and emails worldwide. Humans love talking about someone else more than the weather. They choose rumor, tattle-tales, speculation and allegation over facts, truth and reality. Gossip may be called “The ...
Views: 805(1 vote) - 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: 1267(1 vote) - Hold the Sky: What You Can Do About Personal Grief - by Submitted on May 14, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge During your journey on Earth, you face incredible moments of joy, challenge and discomfort. You never know where those “moments” may originate or for how long. In your life, you may face an accident, loss of a loved one, disintegration of a friendship or disease. A ...
Views: 1205(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: 960(1 vote) - How to handle anyone who drives you nuts - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge If you work in a school, company, fast food joint, office or any other organization that forces you into contact with other people—you must deal with one or two characters that drive you nuts. They may be arrogant, rude, aggressive or impudent. They offer you ...
Views: 749(1 vote) - How to Handle Discouragement - by Submitted on May 01, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeAt some moments in our lives, we feel depressed or “low” from something that happened to us. We might suffer a defeat on the sporting field. We may lose a friend or spouse. At some juncture, we may grieve our circumstance in a hopeless job or situation. When the world contrives against ...
Views: 1020(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: 1036(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: 981(1 vote) - Invisible world of caring: discover your destiny - by Submitted on May 01, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeMuch of life in every civilization revolves around money, power and status. Some youngsters enjoy instant success from their parents while others begin in poverty. Everyone learns the ways of the world by the time they reach 18. They understand the inequities, discriminations and biases. ...
Views: 563(1 vote) - Judgment: Higher Frequencies of Human Consciousness - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Make your life like a mighty river of love flowing out of your heart. Such consciousness will return with a flood of friends, joy and happiness. (This metal horse represents the intricacies of life interwoven into every work of art, every human being and every ...
Views: 854(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: 702(1 vote) - Learn how to dribble a football: life calls you - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge The famous automobile maker Henry Ford said, “If you think you can or can’t, you’re right.” Almost everything in your life boils down to how you think, speak and act. High thinking creates high vibrations in your mind and body. Such “thinking” loads the body with ...
Views: 715(1 vote) - Life Choices: Confidence versus Insecurity - by Submitted on May 14, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this trauma. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ...
Views: 1134(1 vote) - Life Choices: Optimism vs. Pessimism - by Submitted on May 14, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge “To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words, but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.” Christian D. Larson (Life can be an uplifting ...
Views: 1059(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: 966(1 vote) - Life: Your Highest Performance of Function - by Submitted on Nov 08, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge “Life” charges around your body every second of every day until your last breath on Earth. Your red blood cells race through thousands of miles of arteries, capillaries and veins. Everything about you thrives toward performance and function. Blood feeds your ...
Views: 748(1 vote) - Live Happily Ever After—Day to Day - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Snow White discovered her prince, embraced him and kissed him. Prince Charming swept her off her feet and carried the young maiden to the castle to live happily ever after. John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen captured the desperadoes before riding into the ...
Views: 958(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: 1074(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: 941(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: 821(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: 812(1 vote) - No ordinary moments: your epic life - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Every week in America, you read stories of amazing moments where ordinary people triumphed over failure. You may watch the “Biggest Loser” where a man or woman cut 150 pounds off his or her body to walk on stage looking fantastic in a suit or dress. Most suffered ...
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