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It's a little easier to just get my gear on than to fully take in my surroundings, but as I'm getting my boots out of the back, I look up at the face looming above me (a run, I later learn, called "Alf's High Rustler") and exclaim, "Holy fuck! That is fucking gnar."

It's about 10:30am as I gear up. It was spring-warm yesterday, so no sense in anything like dawn patrol. I was hoping that in arriving a bit late, things will have warmed up enough that I won't be skiing chunk-ice, but that no one is on or even eyeing that gloriously gnarly face above me, nor any of the myriad steep and sexy lines that snake among the trees looker's right, fed from the old fixed double-chair, tells me everything I need to know about conditions right now. Okay, fine, I think. It's a groomer morning. I'll have fun regardless.

I'm struck, most of all, by how little it looks like Colorado, and how exciting it is that I'm actually here.

Two ideas being explored in zero-drafts right now:

THE FINAL ADVENTURES OF HASHTAG CARL, about to my car, and the roadtrip it (he?) and I are currently on, and how those two topics relate to my work to radically expand abundance in my life.

ANNIVERSARIES. Today I drove to Salt Lake City. This week a year ago, I also drove to (and through--we stopped near Ogden) Salt Lake City. I followed the same route today as a year ago, and reflected on how radically different my life is compared to this time last year. I believe that anniversaries have important energetic significance; I've been reflecting on this belief and the changes in my life all day today.

A year ago yesterday, partly in response to a deeply challenging situation in my life, partly in the recognition that "I can just do this," I booked my flight from Denver to Barcelona, finally committing to the Europe trip that I'd be exploring but had been afraid to fully take the plunge on.

I bring this up because earlier tonight, after a fair amount of hemming and hawing, I booked six nights in Salt Lake City, UT, for a ski trip. Starting tomorrow.

This trip (thankfully) will demand a whole lot less preparation than flying across the ocean to spend seven weeks in Europe did. This will be kinda more like, "Throw the skis in the car, don't forget the toiletries, and away we go." But regardless, there's always a pleasure found at the moment of truly committing.

On this trip, I'll get to explore several ski areas I've never been to before. That's exciting. Who knows what other experiences the universe has in store for me on this trip? I hope (and can probably safely expect) that the repercussions on my life from this trip will be more uniformly positive than what happened during and after the trip to Europe. I even dare to consider that the positive impacts could be as great, or even greater. You never know who or what you might meet when you're open to flow.

This is an actual piece. It's a little after midnight, which makes it technically the day before, and I did a bunch of stuff today that was all awesome. From when and where I woke up to who I had lunch with to driving home to the nap I took to the cookie dough I made to igloo building to writing, I have been very very alive today, and if I am publishing an idea about the idea of the work I'm doing, well, here you go.

Still dealing with technical issues. This is a placeholder post. We'll be back on schedule tomorrow.

We're still dealing with some technical issues here at FRHQ. Today's equinox post will be delayed until tomorrow or Friday.

Yesterday, I described the locals' view here in Summit County about how the tourists drive, but today I need to speak just for--and of--myself.

I practice flow, I teach flow, I do my best to live in flow. Get me going, and I'll get all mystical, asserting that the energy we channel in flow is in fact the great universal energy of which we're all a part. I'll make grand pronouncements that that energy, in its purest form, is Love.

Put me in traffic, though, and that all goes out the window. In heavy traffic, you won't hear me say a word about that unicorns-rainbows-and-love shit. In heavy traffic, I want to kill.

I live in the mountains full time now, and we see a relentless influx of tourists coming here to ski. People who live here may bitch about them, but none of us actually hate the tourists. We all recognize that without them and the money they bring, there'd be no economy here at all.

We don't hate them. We recognize that we need them. But holy shit do we hate the white-knuckle way they drive.

The Free Refills IT department made excellent headway today, but we're still dealing with technical difficulties. Don't worry, though! We're getting everything sorted out.

Give a hand to the FR IT people. They're fantastically attractive people, and a lot of fun at parties.

Technical difficulties continue. But don't worry! The Free Refills tech team is working furiously to get them ironed out.