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Story List

One of my resolutions this year is to write more. So I have compiled this list of various life stories to share (in no particular order). I’ll get to them as I can, but if any tickle your interest, leave a comment here and I’ll up the priority… 🙂

  • Monrovia Robbery
  • Flying Lesson
  • Navy SEALs are Different
  • Go Dad! – First Seeing The Boy Compose Thoughts
  • Dream Witch – Curse Lifted!
  • 11 Deadly Pressure Points
  • Kokopelli
  • Edison
  • Crash(es)
  • Playa del Carmen / Chi chenitza
  • Bungee Jumping
  • I Love Golfin’ Baby!
  • World Amateur Golf Championship
  • SCCA AutoX
  • SCCA Club Racing
  • SCCA Club Rally
  • MRA Moto School
  • Surfing San Onofre
  • Surfing Malibu / Topanga Cafe
  • L.A. Race Riots
  • Santa Fe, Weez & A Punch to the Face
  • Riding Cross-Country on a GSXR
  • Tattoos
  • The Boy’s MVP
  • Passings
  • Robot Wars
  • 40 is the new 20
  • This Is Your World, Make Of It What You Will
  • How I Nearly Died Christmas Day
  • The Boy Birthday Race
  • Celtics Bulls
  • Working as Dunlop Tire Tech for AMA @ PPIR
  • Weez Goes To School

I’ll link the stories here as they are written.

The Way of Walking Alone

(aka “Dokkodo”, excerpted from History Channel’s “Samurai”, with Mark Dascoscas)

Do not turn your back on the various ways of this world.

Do not scheme for physical pleasure.

Do not intend to rely on anything.

Consider yourself lightly. Consider the world deeply.

Do not ever think in acquisitive terms.

Do not regret things about your personal life.

Do not lament parting on any road whatsoever.

Though you give up your life, do not give up your honor.

Even thought it is a path of one thousand miles, you walk one step at a time.
Consider this well.

– Miyamoto Musashi

On Performance

“We’ll never know our strength until it is tested; we can never increase that strength unless the tests become ever more stringent. Arrayed against all the potential pain, loss, and fatigue of the performance quest is but a single reward: the pride of accomplishment and the security of knowing that you have made something of yourself, that you have not squandered your time on earth.”
— Brett Steenbarger

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