Author: G
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Textures from the 2025 Southwest Trip
Images I took on a 3 week roadtrip last year. I’ve sat on them for months thinking I’d do some post editing, but it wont happen, so here they are… I was very drawn to the textures nature created. They…
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Fear and Judgement
Fear Motivator and demotivator A portal held shut by an assumed torrent of the unknown When you believed it had power… you fed its existence and growth When you saw it as a teacher and lesson… you became a student…
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Ctrl + Alt + Delete (3-4)
Well shit. I have come back to this for months and I’m just going to send it. I haven’t found a way to explain the interweaving of experiences that have happened or the tie from my last journey into this,…
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Gary Fisher Build 1
For those who have known new and old me, 2 wheels have been a theme throughout my life. It’s where my younger self constantly pushed boundaries of neighborhood exploration, my older (old) self found presence for the first time on…
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Why haven’t I been writing?
Writing started for me as a cathartic way to process my experiences and the work I’ve been doing on myself. Then, each sentence I wrote, meant as a mechanism to learn and heal, fell into the shadows of my over…
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Reading List
(will be updated continually) Consolidation of books I’ve been digesting, sometimes multiple times on this path. Note, this does not include any Chilton/Hayes, or FSMs, you are on your own finding those : UPCOMING READS• The Way of the Superior…
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Shadow work and finding compassion for the orange man through hidden sadness…
What began as a meditation to find compassion for the orange man became an unexpected journey deep into my own shadows. In the stillness, I met a child figure — a facet of myself born from thousands of tiny emotional…
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The fear of losing “me”
Pulling away the fairings and valences of my belief structure to explore and discover who I am underneath it all.
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… cracked carbon and abrasively machined camshafts … you never know…
The morning starts off with excitement as I walk to the garage to finally ride my bike this year after rebuilding it. Today is going to be awesome; I was ecstatic as I haven’t ridden in almost 8 months. ……
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Going with the flow… but whose?
The concept of water and flow is becoming a theme for me in all assessments, tests, readings, interactions, and experiences, but this “going with the flow thing”—being water—well… it seems things are a bit more fluid than what I’m capable…
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Piston Ring Wisdom
…mmmmmm forged and cnc’d goodness… when installed correctly… So following the mental beatdown a few weeks ago, I’ve begun training my brain in some very strange ways and applying the last year of work and some very apparent lessons from…
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The ‘Work’
Watches are for reference, you control time and what you do with it. Following the big 2 posts (Ctrl+Alt+Delete (1)) and (Ctrl+Alt+Delete (2)), I have had many people come to me to discuss the medicine and the medicine and the…
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Breaking of the engineering mind (1)
It appears when scheduling a post in the past, it instantly emails everyone. Doh. Sorry for the double send the other day. Ok, here something I’ve been wanting to start; a series of “breaking the engineering mind.” As I have…
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Torque Wrench Wisdom…
Well, its been a bit over a week since I mentally and emotionally beat the shit out of myself (LINK). When proverbial Kroil, breaker bars and a blowtorch don’t force movement in a stuck bolt or mind, sometimes a bit…
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Super Surfing life’s flow…
We’ll get to the skateboard…a 1960’s Hobie Super Surfer… My wife and I exit the hotel, groggy and exhausted from a 12 hour drive the day before, proceeding to breakfast, but carrying a mix of confused feelings and emotions that…
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Ctrl + Alt + Delete (2ⁿ)
Prologue If you read the last Ctrl + Alt + Delete (1) it is more akin to me frying a clutch on one of my motorcycles. Something that highlights what needs to change in your driving, but nothing machine ending,…
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Stripping down with Daniele, the Italian Mistress
Chill out, it’s just a motorcycle; my 2000 Ducati 748, aka Daniele, my Italian Mistress, who’s namesake comes from my wife’s middle name, who is Italian. She’s a beautiful, dangerous, finicky, and often broken down, 25 year old Italian from…
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In the room?
Same friend as the dying leaves, new shared wisdom. Despite the massive strides I’ve taken to find a new state of presence and disconnect from a deliverable based identity, I still have the drive and itch of somebody training in…
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Ctrl+Alt+Delete (1) and the Beginning
Diving back into my first journey and the path that got me there before Ctrl+Alt+Delete (2). I wrote notes the morning after this experience and have just let the series of changes unfold for the past 7 months, only writing…
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Be the water, not the rock.
No longer fighting the current. No longer being the rock. No longer trying to form things around yourself. Letting go of desires and the prisons they create. Go with the flow, let your transformation be your strength; not your resistance.…
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