Here's a selfie photo I took the first time I visited this hallowed ground two weeks ago today.
I taped a video while I was there and I hope to have it ready for you in the next issue of the newsletter.
Suffice it to
say I was quite emotional when standing on the Memorial Plaza just a few hundred feet from the impact crater now marked by a giant boulder of the native bedrock.
I urge you to go visit this solemn site in some of the most gorgeous rural farmland I've ever seen in my life.
What I Learned
My ten-day trip reinforced things I've known for a long time.
Family is by far the most important thing. If you've got strong family bonds, then you know this to be fact.
Friends are second. I made a special effort to connect with some other close friends while in
Cincinnati. It's impossible to see all of my Cincinnati friends each trip back because there are simply too many.
I had a delightful time reconnecting with Nick and Mary Beth Motz. I met Nick about thirty-three years ago when he was in high school at St. Xavier. I was doing my first of many projects for his mom and dad, Matt and Ginny.
I was able to spend a great lunch with my dear friend
Tom Yunger. Tom now owns the Clifton Skyline Chili. Tom and I worked many a day and late night together.
The memories we talked about where so thick we had to brush them away from the front of our faces. Remember that great line from the Field of Dreams movie?
Everything else after family
and friends is a distant THIRD.
If family and friends are not the focus of what you do each day, I suggest you consider changing what you do. When you make family and friends the center of your life, your personal happiness machine will be running on all eight cylinders.
CLICK HERE to read about two new friends I made while on this trip.
The Deck Project
I'm just about eight hours away from installing the first NEW piece of decking on my massive deck project.
Here's an update photo of what *some* of the three decks looked like this past Sunday.
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