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Michael Kennedy
Jul 28, 20235 min read
What's Your Blade of Grass?
Where to turn when all is lost "Your life is your life. Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch. There are ways...
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Michael Kennedy
Jul 23, 20231 min read
Three Things I Wish I Knew 15 Minutes Ago
There's something waiting for you... so turn the page. Jump in a Lake. Climb a tree. Sit by a waterfall. Hike a hill. Fly. Schools,...
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Michael Kennedy
Jul 22, 20233 min read
Creatures of the Sky
For aviation lovers and the curious alike "Flying says to us: Don’t tell me who you are by letters after your name, a list of...
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Michael Kennedy
Jul 19, 20232 min read
Beyond Excellence
There was no denying that the daylight was rising with the irresistible force of the solar system behind it. In these moments you feel...
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Michael Kennedy
Jul 8, 20232 min read
To the Illustrious Ones
"The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The...
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Michael Kennedy
Jul 3, 20231 min read
Get it. Capture it. Absorb it.
“Wherever you are, be there! Be there to absorb it. Take a picture if you can. Take pictures in your mind. Let your soul and heart take...
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Michael Kennedy
Jun 25, 20231 min read
When Angels Dream
"Exuberance is Beauty." ~ William Blake Lake Tahoe makes you come alive. It's a gift to the spirit, a seduction of the senses, a place...
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Michael Kennedy
Jun 23, 20235 min read
Call of the Canyon
"Here is magic." Have you ever been told to take a hike? Well, I've got the perfect place for you: Shirley Canyon in Olympic Valley. What...
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Michael Kennedy
Jun 20, 20232 min read
The Mighty Junipers of Olympic Valley
Surviving in the harshest conditions, Sierra Junipers withstand gale force winds that "iceblast" their bark. They grow out of rocks with...
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Michael Kennedy
May 25, 20233 min read
Dare to be Great
The speech these graduating high schoolers deserved Recently, my wife and I sat through a high school graduation ceremony and we were...
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Michael Kennedy
May 15, 20232 min read
Surprised by Beauty
Have you ever had a moment when something you read, heard, or saw was presented in such a way you were startled by its insight and...
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Michael Kennedy
May 11, 20233 min read
Flight: The Highest Revelation
How could you not be moved by something that looks like it's moving 600 mph just sitting there? I've always had a fascination for planes...
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Michael Kennedy
May 6, 20231 min read
How 'bout a Lift?
The Beauty Surrounding Olympic Valley's Chairlifts Suspended from endless cables above the trees. Moving through the evening skies....
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Michael Kennedy
May 3, 20232 min read
From Cat Island to Lake Tahoe
The clocks are working, we just don't hear them ticking “The world is bursting with wonder, and yet it’s the rare productivity guru who...
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Michael Kennedy
Apr 24, 20232 min read
The Goodfinder
There's a lot said about artists drawing from their humiliations, misfortunes, and failures, "a treasure chest of raw material, as clay,...
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Michael Kennedy
Apr 22, 20231 min read
Earth Day 2023: Now What?
Thinking globally, acting locally Happy Earth Day 2023 from our slice of heaven on this "pale blue dot" we all call home. "The Earth is a...
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Michael Kennedy
Apr 21, 20232 min read
A Boy in a Jet, a Boy on a Beach
A Tale of Onism It started as a distant rumble, fading in and out with the ocean breeze. Its rhythm interrupted only by the early morning...
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Michael Kennedy
Apr 18, 20232 min read
Prize Your Sense of Wonder
Olympic Valley, CA “The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome,...
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Michael Kennedy
Apr 17, 20231 min read
Show Up Like No One Else
Billy Major (GBR) during the Stifel Palisades Tahoe Cup Sharing your aliveness with others is more important than “showing up.” It...
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Michael Kennedy
Apr 7, 20238 min read
The Storyteller in You
“The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller…” ~ Steve Jobs As a child I witnessed first-hand some of the most eccentric and...
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Michael Kennedy
Mar 18, 20232 min read
Heartmoor:
The primal longing for a place that may no longer exist n. the primal longing for a place or home village to return to, a place that may...
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Michael Kennedy
Mar 4, 20233 min read
The Blizzard of 2023
An Olympic Valley, CA Resident's Experience Lake Tahoe received more than 12 feet of snow in the last week of February 2023. With more...
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Michael Kennedy
Feb 23, 20233 min read
San Francisco: 2 Days of Immersion
All Nicola wanted for her birthday was a sunset on the ocean. Living in Lake Tahoe, the best place I could think of, based on time and...
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Michael Kennedy
Feb 11, 20236 min read
What Makes You Come Alive?
“To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest...
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