Episode Notes

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Maybe I’m getting older or just easier to please. But I can tell you nothing satisfies like some of the old movies.

City Slickers tracks 3 friends who take an annual trip to a dude ranch for a cattle drive across the Southwest leaving behind their wives as well as their fears about midlife crisis, aging, purpose, and all the rest that haunts each and every one of us. Billy Crystal (playing the part of Mitch) looks every bit the baby he was in 1981. And Jack Palance will forever be Curly, that grizzled dying breed existential cowboy.

Maybe you remember this bit of chatter between Mitch and Curly as they mosey their horses along the desert landscape:

• Curly asks: You know what the secret of life is?
• Mitch: No, what?
• Curly: (holds up a black gloved hand and extends his index finger) This.
• Mitch: Your finger?
• Curly: One thing, just one thing.
• Mitch: That’s great, but what’s the one thing?
• Curly: That’s what you’ve got to figure out.

Practical Tip: Yup! It’s your story. You get to figure it out or not. You get to live it or not. Either way, it’s your choice. But if you choose to live it you gotta live all of it. And then? And then you get to share it as a gift offered to the community

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Music: Mer’s Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music

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