Hi y’all! I’m treating myself and my friends to monthly reflections, this year. These are meant to help me keep track and make sense of things. I am one of those creative types that flourish in clutter and chaos. I’m also the first to admit that my way is no way to keep any sort of order.
Our Harvest Reflection is courtesy of Augusta Canal.
“One cannot live without inconsistency.” – Carl Jung
Consistency isn’t my thing, folks. But, that doesn’t stop me from attempting to make it my thing. It’s not that I don’t have any consistency. I just don’t have mastery over it. If we liken consistency to the horses we ride through life, mine is a wild donkey.
I’m not cut out for the wagon train. I’m a happy, content person running along through the fields with my wild donkey, stopping to smell the flowers. And, try as I might to join in, I just get trampled by the wagon train that stretches in a line as long as the equator. It seems like everybody else and their team of Clydesdales all heading the same way, doing the same thing, they have this mastery over what people want and how to give it to them…. I am a master of nothing and if I’m being brutally honest, I don’t know much either.
So, for 2016, I’m going to focus on letting go of this fear that my inconsistency will fail me…. I mean, we’re usually a decade behind everyone else, but this wild donkey has carried me this far.. I don’t qualify for any trophies, but that’s just one less thing to carry.
AUGUST
August 1: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
August 2: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
August 4: Aska Adventure Area MTB Trails – Read on Explore Georgia!
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August 4: Mike’s Trackside BBQ
Lol lunch in blue Ridge after mountain biking aska trails #happy #GeorgiaEats
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August 6: Little Kennesaw Mountain –Read about this great hike!
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August 8: Sweetwater Creek State Park – Read about this great park!
August 9: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
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August 10: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
August 12: Sweetwater Creek State Park
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August 13: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
August 14: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
Me & my bike are back! #mtb #mountainbiking #outdoorfamilies
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August 16: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
Ride everyday. It’s the mountain bike way. #mtb #mtblife #mountainbike #mountainbiking #happy
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August 17: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
August 29: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
SEPTEMBER
Sept 1: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
Sept 2: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
Sept 3: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
Sept 5: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails – Read on Explore Georgia!
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Sept 6: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
Sept 8: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
Sept 9: Free-Flite Bicycles Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
Upgrade! #mtb #trekbikes #freeflite #GeorgiaBikes #mountainbiking
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Sept 10: Mt Tabor Park MTB Trails
Sept 12: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails – Read on Explore Georgia!
Sept 13: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
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Sept 14: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails – Read on Explore Georgia!
Sept 18: Augusta, GA – Partridge Inn Augusta, GA – Luigi’s Restaurant
Sept 19: Augusta, GA – Phinizy Swamp Nature Park Bike Tour
One last look at Phinizy Swamp before we say goodbye to Augusta! #augustaga #exploregeorgia #happy
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Augusta, GA – Art in the Heart Festival
Augusta, GA – International Disc Golf Center –Read on Explore Georgia!
Disc golf afternoon! At the international disc golf center in #augustaga #exploregeorgia #DiscGolf
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Augusta, GA – Nacho Mama’s
Sept 20: Augusta, GA – Kayaking Augusta Canal – Read on Explore Georgia!
It’s heatin’ up out here #augustaga #outdoorfamilies
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Sept 20: Augusta, GA – Augusta Riverwalk
Walking off lunch down by the river in Augusta #augustaga #exploregeorgia
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Augusta, GA – Pizza Joint
Yummy! #pizzaparty #GeorgiaEats #augustaga
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Augusta, GA – Phinizy Swamp Nature Park – Read on Explore Georgia!
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Sept 24: J Bear turns 12!
Happy birthday @happytrailblazr #happybirthday
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OCTOBER
Oct 7: Blankets Creek MTB Park
Oct 8: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
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Oct 9: Eddie’s Trick Shop
Oct 10: Blood Mountain Summit – Read on Explore Georgia!
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Oct 13: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
Oct 16: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
Oct 23: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
Oct 25: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
Me & my mountain biking buddy! #mountainbike #mtb #mountainbiking #biking #trekbikes
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Oct 28 Pettit Preserve (Environmental Education Volunteer)
Oct 30: Allatoona Creek MTB Trails
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NOVEMBER
Nov 7: Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
Nov 8: Jackson County’s Geocaching Heritage Trail – Read on Explore Georgia!
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Nov 10: Allatoona Pass Battlefield Trail
Can someone please tell me what this shiny sky circle is? Huh? 😀 #getoutsidegeorgia
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Nov 11: Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park – Read on Explore Georgia!
Checking out Chickamauga #GeorgiaHikes #exploregeorgia
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Nov 13: Pettit Preserve (Environmental Education Volunteer)
Nov 27: Chicopee Mountain Bike Trails – Read on Explore Georgia!