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An interesting thing happened while driving to a labyrinth recently: I was streaming my random playlist on the car radio and all the songs I heard were from before 1978. That means they all harkened to a time when the future was out in front of me and anything was possible.
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“Are you a retired doctor?”
“No.”
“Well, you look like a retired doctor.”
“Sorry, but I’m not.”
The question came from a man remodeling the vacant house next door. Work has been sporadic over the past two years, so I sometimes walk over when someone is working to get the latest forecast on completion. We’re eager to have good neighbors in that house.
The conversation this day was through an open window when I took a break from mowing. I can’t imagine what there was about me that made him think I was a doctor, and a retired one at that. I mean, seriously, I was mowing my own lawn. The closest I’ve come to being a doctor is when I worked in communications at DART and donned a doctor’s white coat for a photo shoot in the atrium at Medical City Hospital.
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On the Monday morning after the closing ceremonies for the 2024 Olympics, we visited the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum. The timing was a coincidence in our planning for a week of vacation in Colorado, and it turned out to be a memorable and inspiring experience.
It was interesting to see both these facilities, located less than three miles apart in the heart of Colorado Springs, because the work at the training center obviously leads to the success highlighted at the museum.
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