Win the Name of Action
Ben Lomond Trilogy
Part One:
Into the High Place
Part Two:
Summit Fever
Part Three:
Babel’s Lovely View
Writing
Creative
Hiker Vignettes Before Sunstone
Agnostic
Out of the Best Books:
The Exorcist
Mormon (satire)
Elon Musk Buys the
Kirtland Temple
Lifestyle
“And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.”
Hamlet had the right notion but the wrong goal. Should we take action? Yes. Should we pursue destruction? No.
After a mental health crisis in 2021, I left corporate work and took a job as a hospital housekeeper. I work on patient floors, supporting medical teams and their patients. The work is repetitive, strenuous, with risks of infection and injury (if I’m uncareful). Yet, I’m as happy as I have been in a long time.
In 2024, I achieved a goal of hiking to the top of Ben Lomond Peak in Utah (near where I went to school as a younger man). Ben Lomond had stared at me all through my 20s, and I never did what it took to make it to the top. Now in my late-40s, I not only summited, I had fun the whole way: 16 miles out and back, 3,600 feet of elevation gain, down in time for lunch, and oh, the view!
My new mantra is “Win the name of action.” Farewell to destruction. I am steering my life toward healthy goals: cooperation, community, and peaceable living. This website showcases my personal mission.
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