Ok, so I know this is out of the ordinary, but I wanted to share this…

I’m hooked on mint limeade this summer, so I wanted to share my mint limeade recipe.  It’s not exactly sugar free, but it is delicious.  You’ll thank me later this summer when you’re drinking this while it’s hot outside…

There’s only 4 ingredients…

• 1 bag of limes
• 1 package of mint leaves (usually a few sprigs)
• Water
• Sugar

Tear the mint leaves off of the stems, and add it to 1 1/2 cups sugar with 2 cups of water.  Mix this together, and boil it.  Once it’s boiling, take if off the burner, and stick it in the fridge.

Juice enough limes to get 1 1/2 cups of lime juice.  This usually ends up being about a bag of limes.

Once the mint syrup is cooled down, dump it into a pitcher (with the mint leaves still in it), add the 1 1/2 cups of lime juice, and add 8 cups of cold water.  Stir it up.

Put some salt or some sugar on the rim of your favorite glass, add some ice, and pour this over it.

I’m tellin’ ya, you’re gonna be glad you did.

For the most part, people are naturally risk averse.  We’re afraid of it.  We wonder, “what will happen if I don’t succeed?”  We’re afraid to fail.

The thing is that any great thing in my own life has come as a result of being willing to risk something.  But,what if you don’t have anything you’re willing to risk?

People also enjoy being comfortable.  We don’t want to be uncomfortable, and we typically avoid people, places, things, and circumstances that make us feel this way.

This combination of being risk averse, and wanting to be comfortable creates a space where we don’t have anything we’re willing to risk, due to our own comfort.  It’s easier to look and wish rather than to put in the effort, or extend the faith needed to make something happen. It becomes easier to complain than to put in the effort.

We buy things to feel better about ourselves, we take drugs to put our minds at ease. We become well-trained consumers.  We want, we want more, then we want again, and so it goes.

We shouldn’t be surprised to find the battle going our for our minds, all the time.  There’s a lot of money to be made off of comfortable, discontent people.

The world that mattered most to us as a child doesn’t even exist today.  Things change. Things get lost, stolen, they burn in fires, we lose them in floods and storms, but what we have is memories, memories of how things were, to us.  We remember the past as we experienced it, colored with the love or hate for our families, the sadness of those we have lost, the joy of those we had and still have in our lives that we love.

The further we get away from these experiences, the more import the memory of them is to us. We not only have to hold onto those memories, but as we get older and understand this point, we should work hard to create new, positive ones, both for ourselves, and for those around us.  We should cherish those moments that we have with our loved ones, cherish those moments we remember.  Write them down, take pictures, keep them close to our hearts.  There’s enough to do, the lists of those things that others want us to do will always be there, it’s important to take some time, and get some things right.

The clock is ticking.  It’s a reminder that we can hear, that time is ticking away, moving on.  We’re getting older, time is going by.  Are we making the most of it, or just letting it pass us by?

The expectations of the world are changing.  The world as we know it now, it will not be the  world of the future.  Things will change.  Change is coming, it always has, and it always will.  The first radios allowed people to connect with each other all around the world.  We’re not so much building radios anymore.

Stay curious, and live with passion.