Grand Canyon north rim today. I had no idea how beautifully forested this area was. Breathtaking at every turn. And the Cliff Springs hike that wasn’t too canyony - also great!
Today was a shorter day. Not as hot temperature-wise, but seems like they brought in some humidity? Toadstool Hoodoo, ✅ Horshoe Canyon off the bucket list, and a swung by Glen Canyon Dam (just 15 feet shorter than Hoover).
Subway in Zion was an absolute butt-kicker. On the hike for over 10 hours, but totally worth it even with the 430-foot straight-up climb out in sunny 100 degrees. Kids did GREAT! (And these aren’t even pictures in the Subway 😀)
Zion with a little bit of The Narrows.
Sand dunes and sand caves.
A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore ahahahaha 🔗
Heading to southern Utah tomorrow for lots of hiking and views. I might decide to post lots of photos here. We’ll see what I decide, but sorry in advance. 😄
I feel like my Netflix downloads are always set to expire mid-trip. Seems like there should be a renewal way around this, but I don’t know what it is.
Sculpture, what does it mean?
A good night. 🎵
Good Enough is taking a summer break, but we squeezed out one last newsletter for all of our superfans.
Paradox of choice over here as I try to plan our southern Utah itinerary. Heading out for 9 days toward the end of the month and there are just so many options, and some require gearing up. Off the table is Angels Landing, to which my wife said, “I’m not taking my kids on that.”
Camp Cucamonga, a TV movie from 1990, is not available for streaming anywhere and my wife is not having it. (That’s quite a cast!)
Our roof was replaced last week while we were gone on a marching band trip. The roofers did not do an adequate job cleaning up. Unfortunately one of these ended up in my youngest’s foot. So she got to make a surprise Fourth of July emergency room visit for a tetanus shot.
It was a trip with challenges, but the kids had a blast and they got experiences like this. Success!
Wet theme park conditions on this very trying “vacation” as a chaperone.
This is not a vacation.
Our silliest Good Enough newsletter yet. It doesn’t feel like a day to be silly, but maybe that’s okay.
I think Observations on 6 years of journaling might have helped me to crack the code of this thing I need to do for myself, which is daily journaling. I’ve never believed I could do it at night. Now I believe that’s when I need to do it. 🤞that tool research doesn’t bog me down.
Oliver Burkeman’s latest newsletter includes this bit. I’m happy to read someone agreeing with my estimation of the actual amount of expertise out there in the world. This is my personal way to handle feeling like an imposter:
Imposter syndrome? Worse than you think – because you think the issue is that you don’t yet have the qualifications to hold your own among your colleagues, when in fact the truth is that everyone is winging it, all the time, and that if you’re ever going to make your unique contribution to the world, you’re going to have to do it in a state of unreadiness.
News flash: Aaron Copland is pretty good. 🎵
Finished up The Revenge of Analog by David Sax, featuring @patrickrhone and @rohdesign. Good eats!📚
Related to that prior post, take a look at this video/audio toybox, Xorberax Visualizer. How fun is that? 🔗