First post-camping meal. Heavenly. (Taken with instagram)

Home for the next 6 days! (Taken with instagram)

I’m off rafting the Grand Canyon w/ the family for a week. It’s a much-needed break following the insanity of my last semester, finals, graduation, & the race. Expect a slew of updates sometime next week! & regular updating will recommence mid-June. ‘Til then, cheers! M

Early morning airport. Dickman family vaca commences…now #grandcanyon #camping

#Job101 To be successful one needs to major in people-

Prepping our putting green & fire pit for this weekend! #indy500

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

i want to live an adventurous life.

The last sunrise. (Taken with instagram)

‎”Fear of the future, she thought. She found herself at the imposing junction of George Street and Hanover Street as all around her people hurried home from work or out to meet friends or lovers, all with a sense of purpose and direction. And here she was, twenty-two and clueless and sloping back to a dingy flat, defeated once again.

‘What are you going to do with your life?’ In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at three in the morning, but the question had never seemed this pressing and still she was no nearer an answer. The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her. How would she ever fill them all?

She began walking again, south towards The Mound. ‘Live each day as if it’s your last,’ that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just sadn’t practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Go out there with your passion and your electric typewriter and work hard at… something. Change lives through art maybe. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.

That was her general theory, even if she hadn’t made a very good start of it.”

- excerpt from One Day, David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton, August 2009)

(Source: books.google.com)

It’s official #kites (Taken with instagram)

Look at you. You’re young. And you’re scared. Why are you so scared? Stop being paralyzed. Stop swallowing your words. Stop caring what other people think. Wear what you want. Say what you want. Listen to the music you want to listen to. Play it loud as fuck and dance to it. Go out for a drive at midnight and forget that you have school the next day. Stop waiting for Friday. Live now. Do it now. Take risks. Tell secrets. This life is yours. When are you going to realize that you can do whatever you want?

Be Great Today.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Gorgeous. Yup, I cried: P&G London 2012 Olympic Games Film, Best Job

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.