1 November 2023

There was a freeze warning this morning, the temperature dropped around 40 degrees F in the last two days. My crops seem to be ok though I haven’t had time for a thorough investigation. We had some minimal halloween activities, only taking the baby to the cul de sac where my mother in law lives. We didn’t bother even getting dressed up its so cold, it’s good that we dressed up this weekend and got some nice pictures in the Summer temperatures. One of my big messages to people is to take things seriously, act as though your actions matter, move with a purpose as a drill sergeant would say. What that means for my Halloween was that we acted as if some zombie crawl on the weekend was our Halloween and we went all out. We never know if tomorrow will come and this year that was our holiday. The other thought I had of a practical example of moving with purpose is when we would do long road marches in the Army, anytime we would stop for what looked to be more than five minutes, I would drop my ruck. There’s no telling how long we’ll be stopped and I’d rather pack up repeatedly than debate back and forth for 20 minutes. When given an opportunity, take it. The larger reason I focus on the point of moving with a purpose is because that’s the only way you live for yourself, how will I get to my destination if I don’t know where I’m going? It’s easy to get swept away by the popular current, there was a poem I read on my old podcast Being Chris Cooper, that can be found on my website, the poem was about how a swimmer set off from land with a destination in mind. They were given sage advice and pointed in the opposite bank. Deeper into the stream the swimmer met others who had stopped struggling and embraced the flow. Convinced to stop for a time, the swimmer got back to work and began to make up lost ground.