The following blog was meant to post this past weekend. I currently am on day three of my trip back to Denver and added an impromptu stop for beignets and a book drop to a Little Free Library at Tulane University. I thought LSU was in Shreveport – my bad. (sidenote: I am sitting in my hotel room in Shreveport getting ready to publish this post!) Fortunately, my dad set me straight ahead of time.

LSU won the college world series. Last summer, I was in Oxford, Mississippi the day the team was coming home to a parade after they won the college world series. I was on my way to Fayetteville where the team Ole Miss beat for the championship lived. This summer I had an underwhelming stop in Gainesville (I think I take it for granted becaue I have driven past it so many times ever since I was a kid) – and they were playing LSU in this summer series. My dad pointed it out to me – I would not have picked up on it. I was interested last summer in Ole Miss because of a friend I mostly grew up with who loved Ole Miss – and I barely listened when he tried to tell me about it 🙈

Here is the weekend’s post:

“Mr Price, if I were you and some kid came up to me at the market and asked me to listen to his band, I’d say ‘thanks but no thanks’ just like you. But I’d be making a mistake.”

Billy Dunne’s opportunity with Teddy Price – Daisy Jones and the Six (show)

I love this quote.

My version: ‘If I were you and some content just showed up that was difficult to connect to at first, I’d say thanks but no thanks just like you. But I’d be making a mistake.’

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It’s the last morning of June Quiet Time in the screened-in backspace nestled in the wild of Riverwood – Southwest Florida.

Florida is growing, but where I spend time there are still many people who leave during the summer months. The result is manageable traffic and easier access to parking, beaches, restaurants, etc. For example, during the holidays there are easily up to a hundred (or more) people who may show up to Beach Yoga. Yesterday, there may have been 12 – 16. Same beach, same facilitator.

Truth is, I really like hanging out in Riverwood. I love my parent’s home. Where I am sitting as I type, there is a symphony of nature sounds. One gets to know the ‘critters’, as my parents refer to them. There was heat and mosquitos, but there was much more beauty – lazy alligators, statuesque birds, silly birds, cute playful trusting rabbits. I go for long walks and over the time I am here I often see pairs of different creatures playing with one another. I see it at home too on my long neighborhood walks. Same, but so different.

My brother disrupted Quiet Time for seven mornings. It was great. We discussed everything and nothing, and most likely parted ways with the same differing conclusions about the same typical topics. But we also grew in ways that we both are most likely unaware of – the thing that happens when you spend unplanned morning Quiet Time with another sans any sort of agenda or outcome.

I asked my brother how he would drive home to Denver if he were me. I gave him one narrowing detail: college towns. He suggested heading toward Baton Rouge and up to Shreveport. I have been to neither. I added Norman Oklahoma and Wichita Kansas. It has taken me a number of days to decide on a route home. Why? Because I wanted to return the way I came, which was a route I discovered last summer on the drive home. I love the towns I have come to briefly know: Lawrence KS, Oxford MS, and now Fayetteville/Bentonville AR. I am also quite familiar with Tallahassee, it’s going to be Gainesville on the way up this time.

It’s interesting how quickly something unfamilar becomes the familiar – the new familiar that you don’t want to disrupt.

ohhhhhhhh life. So full of the expected and unexpected. The familiar and unfamiliar. The wild. The playful. The surprises. Too much. Too little. Bugs, weather, traffic.

Same. but so different…

PS. (relevant only if you read the blog or follow my content…) I assumed the new route this summer would include Athens Georgia which then became Auburn. Neither happened as the Graduate Hotel is booked and rooms available are priced too high. I was introduced to Graduate Hotel last summer in Oxford Mississippi with a $99 room rate. This rate has multiplied – for good reason. The hotels are a great concept – college towns, of course. One day I will do a Graduate Hotel road trip…#vanoffice #boutiquehotel #graduatehotel #aubergeresorts #lifestyle #sensual #itdoesntmatterifitshowsupbecauseitisfunjusttothinkabout

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June 21, 2023

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June 22, 2023

Instagram reel.

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