Archive | September, 2015

Motivational Monday: Free Yourself From Judgments

Hi everyone, This week’s Motivational Monday theme is “free yourself from judgments”. Please enjoy the following original poem. This poem was inspired by many and hopefully will inspire many more. “Quick to Judge” Back then……… She always thought the worst. She was quick to judge, Ran from fairy tales And hid from happy endings She […]

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A Can of Soda

Today was a 75-mile ride into Mitchell, SD and marked the crossing of the halfway point of my trip across the US to Portland, ME. As I fought my way through pretty much the same headwind pattern, at lunch I pulled out a Mountain Dew soft drink. From that point to the end of the ride, my […]

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Sunflowers

Today’s ride, to put it simply, was brutal. We rode 113 miles basically into a head wind. What kept my sanity was the beautiful sunflower fields that literally stretched for miles.  The sunflower also happens to be FTBO’s featured flower, so that helped. Also helpful were frequent rest stops and, at the end, a deserving […]

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