Adventure-Some

Tucked in behind St. Patrick’s is an old cemetery, enclosed by a stone wall. Here is the entrance…
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How do you get into St. Patrick’s? You enter through this door. Not the big door, silly! The small one.
These cut-out doors captured my attention for some reason. I find them quite amazing. We have actually only seen the big doors open once, and I think that was a matter of chance.
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We have made our life list and narrowed it down to a year’s worth of goals; now it’s time to start achieving those goals!
I’m going to use my goal of “Be financially self-sufficient” as an example, as I feel that it will be the most challenging of my three. But first, let’s recap:
What makes [...]

While in the secret garden, I just couldn’t pass up the photo opportunity. This was early February and the water is frozen. Good thing I was wearing half of what I packed to keep me warm.
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You have created your life list of goals and you have seen my list. Now it’s time to start working on them. But wait! Those are long lists! Of course they are, it’s called a Life List for a reason, you can’t do it in just a year.
Let’s narrow it down a bit so that [...]

Of course, we have visited the secret garden a number of times. Here is a closer look.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things that you didn’t do than by the things that you did do.
Wednesday we discussed the importance of making your life list and you made yours. (You did, didn’t you?) Here is my wife and I’s. We have already completed some of our goals, as [...]

One of the goals on my Life List is to become financially self-sufficient. By this I don’t mean able to pay my own bills (already do that), but not being dependent upon some company that is out of my control for my income. I don’t want to fear that I could lose my job because [...]

Looking out our window while staying in St. Patrick’s provided a fabulous view of the secret garden. This photo is from late January, with everything in bloom it is even better now.
The bell tower is off to the right.
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I’m sure you know what you want to to today. You might even know your goals for this week. What about this year? This life?
Without set goals, it is too easy to live day-to-day, in a reactive state. If you are living in such a way, you can almost feel as if you are just [...]