Hiking in Wenatchee

What a beautiful day!

I went hiking yesterday with (R to L) my sister and her son, Judy and Conner, and their friend Emily. Here's a picture to make you jealous. It was about 7:30 in the morning. We hiked to Saddle Rock that overlooks the Wenatchee Valley and the Columbia River.

I am really enjoying myself here.

Considering what I came up here for - this is more than I could have planned. We go cycling almost every morning on the 'River Loop' and now that I have added hiking - I have really tried to hike anything in 20 years - it kicked my butt to say the least - I am finding more energy. It could be a combination of medication and lifestyle change.

I am working hard on a new story/screenplay tentatively called 'Risk Everything'. Here's the logline. . . . A risk-adverse nerdy insurance agent must risk everything fighting a ruthless illegal smuggler to save a town and his lover.

It's a lot of fun to get back into the creative mode once again.

What are you doing for your creative side? Are you journaling daily? It works from me.

Your Life - Your Rules!

Namaste Speedo

Wenatchee - what the doctor ordered

What can I say! It's such a refreshing change to have a system that really works - at least it works for me. Everyone here is so helpful and kind. I think that this is the way that it's suppose to be. CA is broken - and it won't get fixed in quite a while. Wenatchee was and is a good move for me.

I have found Face Book. I still don't know how to use all of its subtleties, but that will come in time. I interest about the degrees of separation. I am amazed how these networking sites work. I am running into people all the time. I guess that I am just a slow learner. In many areas, not just the Face Book.

Until I arrived here, I hadn't looked at all the iPhone Apps. Now I don't know why I didn't jump on them right away. There are a number that I use quite a few times each day. I found one that allows me to upload the files that I want to read on the go. I really like this one. Expenses. Face Book. Emails, Weather, this blog - I am mobile and loving it. Oh it helps to have a great signal and not as many iPhone/ATT users so the speed is great.

I have been bike riding with my sister on what they call the 'Loop'. 12 miles and the Columbia River spanned by 2 bike/walk/run bridges. Real cool! A lot different than riding along Hwy 111 with the traffic. Although that never really bothered me. Oh - no parked cars to run into either. A blessing.

So all in all I am counting my blessing and thanking god for my life.

How's your life going?

Your Life - Your Rules!

Namaste Speedo

Cell wars and more

I updated my old 2G iPhone yesterday to the new 3.0 OS. I am impressed with everything that they promised. I am considering purchasing the new iPhone 3Gs phone at some time. For now all the features that I use and wished for have been answered.

Specially the 'cut and paste' feature. I now can take notes and past them into an email or cut a piece from an article into notes or email. Before I had to retype everything. What an improvement!

I am feel more at home here in Wenatchee as the days go by. The mornings are a lot cooler than I am use to though. High 50's around 7am versus mid 80's in the desert. Soon we will be at the summer equinox and the days will start getting shorts and cooler. I am wondering what the late summer and early fall will bring. But for now the high of mid 80's feels find and cool in the afternoon. The desert is suppose to hit triple digit this week and I do not miss that.

I have learned what it is like to live with a couple of teenagers. It's really the first time for me. I softened my opinions and comments as to what they should be doing. I wish that I had had this experience years ago. I grew in such a strict ' this is how it will be' home that I had forgotten that teenagers are just trying to get by. I use to take their actions as defiance. I never really learned how to share space in the home.

Your Life - Your Rules!

Namaste Speedo

Update

This week has been a series of doctors appointments and just getting settled in Wenatchee. All has gone well. I enjoy the change of pace here. It reminds me of Seattle growing up. Then, as here, people are engaging, friendly and helpful. This is a sleepy community of around 50,000 who are active in outdoor activities, there community and just good ol' folk.

This next week is more of the same - doctors appointments and getting involved in the community. I will be investigating the possibility of continuing my seminars on Serenity Rules!, Your Life - Your Rules, Emotional Sobriety and Stasis - Living today! I am excited about the possibility of these seminars. I am checking out community centers and the churches in the valley. And who knows, one thing always to another.

I feel good about the changes that I have listened to. I definitely have a power that I do not understand working in my life through my loving sister and the people I have met.

Are you able to hear the messages that are coming to you through the people you meet?

Your Life - Your Rules!

Namaste Speedo

Stasis

Since I've moved to Wenatchee I have been diving back into my screenwriting craft. I've dedicated myself into developing new and old story lines that have been swimming around - or rather treading water for a number of years to see what if. 

I going over my development notes I have discovered that my story telling is interesting but lacks the flavor of emotional character depth - without which "who cares". I have vowed to change this by writing from the emotional side of the story - the internal story - then pasting an external story - plot - to the character internal flaws. Writing is an adventure.

Only by overcoming our - characters - internal flaws will we arrive at the point of "Stasis = death and re-birth". 

In all our lives, we will continue to live our life in the safety of what we know until we reach a point where we cannot live that way any more. "Everything I ever let go of is full of claw marks". We do not like to change what we know until we have to - 'Stasis'. Either by choice or the choice is made for us. 

In my case, the choice was made for me by my health issues - move to Wenatchee. I am looking at this as a positive opportunity for me - both health-wise and personally. I get to discard my outdated life that I have been hanging onto and take that empty handed leap across the void into an adventure that includes meeting new friends, exciting adventures and becoming  a better writer. 

My writing is going to explore my life - causes and conditions - that I have been unwilling to examine. I expect to experience a catharthist from looking at the emotional side of my character and the courage he has to muster up to win the external goal of living life free of the burdens that have arrested me. Freedom is the goal.

What is your Stasis in life that set you free? Have you identified them? Do you have the courage to?

Your Life - Your Rules!

Namaste Speedo