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Elevation: The Importance of Showing Up
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Canyoneer
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This adventure was in support of National Climate Day, an action day wherein Americans called on their leaders to step it up and reduce carbon omissions 80% by 2050.
Canyoneering was organized by Travis at Alpine Training Services. ATS tackles canyoneering all over the U.S. and leads comprehensive coursework in SoCal. (They're awesome.)
PS: I would like for everyone to know that I did that rocky, slide-y, steep, windy, cold, perfect canyon on two hours of sleep (inadvertently), and that when my alarm went off at 7:00 AM I was in great danger of phoning to excuse myself from the trip, rolling over and slipping back to dreamtown”¦
Of course that would have sucked on multiple levels.
So I showed up.
I hear that”™s 80% of success: Simply showing up.
I also happen to believe that showing up reveals a great deal about you, what (or who) you really care about, what you believe in and how much you respect someone.
I mean, that”™s real love: Showing up for someone repeatedly no matter what, and making it a strong habit, muscle memory, to do so, because you want to, because you care. That”™s how it happens, man.
That's how you Know.
Afterward, while sitting on the floor of my bedroom and digging the sand out of a cut on my finger (I always consider minor snags of this sort indicative of a day well spent), I was thinking over the above idea. I was so out-of-my-mind exhausted that I didn”™t even realize I was thinking about anything, really, not until I murmured aloud a determined, “Yes.”
In the immediate wake of all the things people say and write to me; this or that about whatever talent I may possess and vision and all sorts of things about being due and, “Just let me know when”¦”: When it comes down to it, will they show up for me?
The handful of people I”™ve said that to; will I be there for them?
Amusing little power, isn”™t it?: Your presence in the right place can rock worlds.
And the lack thereof can destroy them.
PPS: I talk to myself even when I”™m not tired. You love it.
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