![Jumped in](https://wardsnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/iStock_000026905898_Large-DiveBoard-diving-470x140.jpg)
Eleven weeks ago, I declared the following: In addition to the daily (workday) quotes, I am a publisher of at least one blog post a…
![Beautiful Blue Marble](https://wardsnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/earth-1MM_miles-NASA-Horizontal-20150721-470x140.jpg)
NASA recently released a beautiful image of our earth from 1 million miles away. Whenever I see a picture of the earth, I become fascinated…
![morning runner](https://wardsnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/iStock_000019999380_Large-morning-runner-470x140.jpg)
After the great night’s of sleep experienced in the great outdoors that I mentioned in the last week’s post, I thought I’d do brief bit…
![Gone Camping](https://wardsnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/IMG_9995-470x140.jpg)
Stacy and I spent our holiday Independence Day weekend at a state park up in northern Wisconsin, 5-hours north of Chicago, to get away from…
![Love Steps Forward](https://wardsnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/iStock_000025287387_Large-figure-with-red-heart-470x140.jpg)
Imagine a world where love always “won” everywhere. Where we really took time to understand, appreciate and simply acknowledge our differences as differences and not…
!["Get to" versus "Have to"](https://wardsnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/iStock_000019636749_Medium-SmileFrownCorkboard-20150624-470x140.jpg)
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where some kind of action is required on your part yet you simply don’t feel that you want to take…
![Right here. Right now.](https://wardsnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/iStock_000047918910_Large-Clock-calendar-470x140.jpg)
A powerful realization I’ve rediscovered the past few weeks which is actually very obvious when said but sometimes easy to overlook: there is only “right now”….
![Beyond…The Comfort Zone](https://wardsnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IMG_5926-MyBike-470x140.jpg)
I purchased my first motorcycle less than 2 years ago. I purchased the bike, a used low-mileage 2012 Honda Shadow, at a motorcycle dealership less…