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Flight: The Highest Revelation
How could you not be moved by something that looks like it's moving 600 mph just sitting there? I've always had a fascination for planes...
Michael Kennedy
May 11, 20233 min read


How 'bout a Lift?
The Beauty Surrounding Olympic Valley's Chairlifts Suspended from endless cables above the trees. Moving through the evening skies....
Michael Kennedy
May 6, 20231 min read


From Cat Island to Lake Tahoe
The clocks are working, we just don't hear them ticking “The world is bursting with wonder, and yet it’s the rare productivity guru who...
Michael Kennedy
May 3, 20232 min read


The Goodfinder
There's a lot said about artists drawing from their humiliations, misfortunes, and failures, "a treasure chest of raw material, as clay,...
Michael Kennedy
Apr 24, 20232 min read


Earth Day 2023: Now What?
Thinking globally, acting locally Happy Earth Day 2023 from our slice of heaven on this "pale blue dot" we all call home. "The Earth is a...
Michael Kennedy
Apr 22, 20231 min read


A Boy in a Jet, a Boy on a Beach
A Tale of Onism It started as a distant rumble, fading in and out with the ocean breeze. Its rhythm interrupted only by the early morning...
Michael Kennedy
Apr 21, 20232 min read


Prize Your Sense of Wonder
Olympic Valley, CA “The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome,...
Michael Kennedy
Apr 18, 20232 min read


Show Up Like No One Else
Billy Major (GBR) during the Stifel Palisades Tahoe Cup Sharing your aliveness with others is more important than “showing up.” It...
Michael Kennedy
Apr 17, 20231 min read


The Storyteller in You
“The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller…” ~ Steve Jobs As a child I witnessed first-hand some of the most eccentric and...
Michael Kennedy
Apr 7, 20238 min read


Heartmoor:
The primal longing for a place that may no longer exist n. the primal longing for a place or home village to return to, a place that may...
Michael Kennedy
Mar 18, 20232 min read


The Blizzard of 2023
An Olympic Valley, CA Resident's Experience Lake Tahoe received more than 12 feet of snow in the last week of February 2023. With more...
Michael Kennedy
Mar 4, 20233 min read


San Francisco: 2 Days of Immersion
All Nicola wanted for her birthday was a sunset on the ocean. Living in Lake Tahoe, the best place I could think of, based on time and...
Michael Kennedy
Feb 23, 20233 min read


What Makes You Come Alive?
“To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest...
Michael Kennedy
Feb 11, 20236 min read


Why “up there” means so much “down here.”
The ‘overview effect’ is common among astronauts, and anyone who has seen our world from outer space. Essentially, seeing the Earth from...
Michael Kennedy
Feb 4, 20233 min read


Quiet Wisdom: An Ode to Trees
As a boy I knew there was more to trees than just limbs to be climbed and heights to be reached. There was something mysterious and...
Michael Kennedy
Feb 1, 20233 min read


Illustrious Warrior: Living Legend, Brig. Gen. "Bud" Anderson Turns 101
WWII Triple Ace Fighter Pilot "Bud" Anderson and his P-51 Mustang, Old Crow, (courtesy photo). The room was packed with pilots and...
Michael Kennedy
Jan 12, 20234 min read


Going Positive in 2023
Today is coming on strong. Daylight is rising with endless possibilities. Going positive means finding fascination in the familiar, magic...
Michael Kennedy
Jan 3, 20232 min read


Love More
A New Year's Resolution The Italian poet, Dante, believed the secret rhythm of the universe was the rhythm of love, which moved the stars...
Michael Kennedy
Dec 31, 20222 min read


Wonderlust: What takes your breath away?
And what can you take away and use? “Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you...
Michael Kennedy
Dec 29, 20223 min read


AI Can't Cry
I just discovered this ad from 55 years ago and it made me think. First, I love the image. It grabbed my attention. Then I read the copy....
Michael Kennedy
Dec 6, 20222 min read


Brigadier General "Bud" Anderson: Promoted at 100
Living Legend, American Treasure On December 2nd, 2022, Col. "Bud" Anderson, the highest scoring living US Fighter Ace, and the only...
Michael Kennedy
Dec 3, 20223 min read


What If Trees Could Talk?
6 Pillars of Writing Mastery "Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins…" ~ Annette Simmons Celtic spirituality has a great regard for the...
Michael Kennedy
Nov 6, 20226 min read


Here was Magic
To Wonder Lazy mornings and all the time in the world for our minds to drift like a boat on a quiet Lake. "Where to next?" we wondered,...
Michael Kennedy
Oct 31, 20223 min read


What a First Grader Taught Me
"If language is not correct, Then what is said is not what is meant; If what is said is not what is meant, Then what ought to be done...
Michael Kennedy
Oct 23, 20222 min read
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