30 Challenges:

Try one new thing every day.  Variety truly is the spice of life. You can see or do something a million times, but you can only see or do it for the first time once. As a result, first time experiences often leave reflective marks in our minds for the rest of our lives. Make an effort to try something new every day for the next 30 days. It can be a whole new activity or just a small experience, such as talking to a stranger. Once you get the ball rolling many of these new experiences will open doors to life changing opportunities.

There's some things that are fit to blog about, and some things that ain't. I think of Mammy in Gone with the Wind when Rhett is teaching Bonnie to ride her pony: "It ain't fittin'. It just ain't fittin'!" I'm learning.

Yesterday my friend James took me for a motorcycle ride through Gates Pass. In the rain. That was the first time I'd done such a thing. Today we went for another rainy motorcycle ride, this one in town. When passing bicyclists and joggers getting soaked I thought to myself, "That must be miserable." And then I realized riders in cars might think the same of me, some sad sap on the back of a motorcycle, caught in the rain.

But that's not at all how I felt. I felt free and exhilerated and nourished by the offerings of the heavens. I wanted to be caught in the rain. That's something new.