The Lonely Chapter

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. - Marcus Aurelius

As long as a man trades his warrior instinct for entertainment, his soul will not be satisfied. He will be perpetually bored, searching for a way to kill time and quell his longings. A man who’s consumed by his mission, however, who knows what life is about and his part to play, doesn’t need a distraction. His life is the adventure. - John Lovell, The Warrior Poet 

Riding a KLR cross country in 2024 helped conceptualize numerous subsets / economies & cultures within USA Inc. / North America.

How we react from adversity makes all the difference. Perception. Gratitude.

Common experience for individuals seeking to break thru to the other side of hard core suffering > The encounter of a New Lifestyle.

Live the Warrior Experience before thus becometh...

Running the Cliff Walk in Newport, Rhode Island rekindled the old Navy Bootcamp days to a potentially inverse Franz Kafka 'metamorphosis' from financial sales to humble worker. Selling clients gold coins below $300 per ounce at Morgan Stanley was ill advised yet helped build a foundation > Reputation 1st.

The word Deserve comes from Service. Entrepreneurs provide solutions.

Living as a Stranger in a Strange Land [R. A. Heinlein] type scenario heled ask many questions in addition to gain exposure to new ideas... or societal beliefs which may or may not be accurate.

Dialectic thinking > accepting opposing ideas can coexist in more 3D systems [Both / And vs Either / Or] entails a less restrictive outlook. Embracing nuances in markets or life thru open critical thinking can be extremely constructive. Experiences thru dramatic changes in life is a gift.

Portor Standsberry - the great financial writer and newsletter sales artists recently commented on The Great Gatsby novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald > expression of Dialectic Thinking: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” 

Recognition of circumstances where two opposing things can be true at the same time.

Getting back to running for this small Indian has been paramount to physical & mental health. Cruising thru an old power center on a sunny day seeing the body Atlantic can help accelerate endorphins.

Recent posts of surf sessions helped link up old friends in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts... last picture. A truly beautiful town with intriguing history.

Todd was USMA93 and shared time on the Lacrosse Field - a pillar to our 1988 MASS state championship. Kate was in my class at Longmeadow and attains the love of the arts & ocean taking up morning swimming. Seeing close old friends like family helped recharge the batteries knowing were not alone in this world.

Picture of H of her family compound in Holderness, N.H.  Trixie the poo dog is a forever character. She's my best friend - the person who was there to lift me up.

Goodhue Boat Company has been a constructive endeavor > Capital needed to Pivot - or as Sam Zell noted 'staying power'... Hard to believe someone sold EMX Royalty this past winter amongst other real intellectual capital businesses in exploration / prosect generation / royalties.

    The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. - Jim Rohn

There is no Tomorrow [RockyIII] -

Grande Abrazos,

C. A. S.