I WAS USED TO MAKING PLANS, setting goals, persisting … triumphing! I had won the world championships in whitewater slalom kayaking, and then the Olympic gold medal. With my wife Gilda, an Olympic paddler from Costa Rica, we traveled the rivers of the world before landing in Nottingham, England, where I was put in charge of the British Olympic whitewater team. It was high profile, high pressure, and we achieved. We won two medals in my first Olympics as coach, the most the country had won up to that point. I came back from the Games victorious, ready to do even better next time.
So, imagine my surprise when Gilda announced: “No more British winters for me! I’m moving to Hawaii. You are welcome to join me, but I am not staying here for another four years!”
“But honey, I have everything here: success, recognition, support, long-term prospects...”
“Good for you! But I can’t even legally work in the UK. Meanwhile, you’re traveling overseas 130 days of the year.”
“But, love, there is no whitewater in Hawaii. None. What are we going to do? I do not want to flip burgers!”
I ended up folding towels instead.
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ONE WORD TO BEAT WINTER BLUES: BIOMIMICRY
CREATURELY REFLECTIONS
THINKING ABOUT RESTITUTION
THE HEART OF HAPPINESS
WAITING IN LINE
OUR WALK IN THE WORLD
ENTER THE SAUNA
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the trail of ATONEMENT
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STALKING YOUR Mind
Stalking the Mind is part of an ancient Indigenous American Medicine Way to tame your guilt, fears, and shame. What we’re “stalking” are our thought patterns and beliefs that seem to create the opposite of happiness and wellbeing. It’s a powerful psychotherapeutic journey of healing without the diagnosis or labels.
LEAVING MESA VERDE
After 21 years of service at Mesa Verde National Park, RANGER DAVID FRANKS recently guided his last tour of the pueblos and cliff dwellings. He says he was fortunate to assist the archeologists with a variety of work and never lost his amazement with their ability to figure out how and when things happened. The question he still wrestles with is much deeper: Why they left?
BECOMING YOUR OWN LEAD RESEARCHER IN HEALTHCARE
PEGGY LA CERRA, PHD, downloaded a health app to aggregate her medical records and was stunned to see the phrase \"aortic atherosclerosis.\" What she did next is a helpful model for all of us.
ARCHETYPAL ASTROLOGY
\"Is astrology true?\" is the wrong question, writes RABBI RAMI SHAPIRO. He suggests that the truth is out there, but out there is really in here.
WELLNESS IN THE WILD
Spa aficionado MARY BEMIS takes the [cold] plunge at Mohonk Mountain House.