Notes from Steve

So, Christmas is over.  Time for resolutions for 2026.  I worry about resolutions that I have no plans on keeping.  Like - I’ll be traveling to the moon or growing a full head of hair in 2026. They just darken the process … I need to focus on what can be accomplished; however, it feels like that list may be smaller every year. 

THIS is what I can resolve to do. I can resolve to stop limiting my abilities.  I found that the age of 60 was particularly horrible for me, and I kept reminding everyone (literally everyone - most people I didn’t know, and they just stared at me, kind of in a sad way) that I was now old.  “Over 60!” - I think, hoping that people would say “you don’t look a day over 47” -- but I now know differently (they won’t).  Bottom line - the age proclamation was more for me than them.  It was a pre-excuse in case I flubbed.*

This is my goal for 2026 - stop giving excuses for why I can’t and instead “just do”.  I know this may sound the same as always -- but I can expand this as well.  ISH is very rural, but we were never limited by our lack of population or our geography.  Same with me - my age or my body or my lack of hair or (insert whatever) shouldn’t determine the success of whatever I am working on or going for.  A successful life is often “McGyvered” by using what’s available and making your situation successful.  

2026 - the year that duct tape, staples, and ingenuity saved the day.

*There was this Peanuts comic strip years ago of Lucy going around with a legal document absolving her of all blame, JUST IN CASE something happened.