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Putting a Hit on Life!

By: The Wisconsin Skier In: The Last Ride

English teachers try to teach their students the difference between passive and active voices. What voice is that?

Our English teachers tried to teach us the difference between passive and active voices. How about that one, what voice?

This is not a writing lesson though, this is an attempt to try to encourage you to do to life, instead of having life do to you! Do not worry about life doing to us, life will get its licks in, how about you, will you get your licks on life in?
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Till Death Do Us Part

By: The Wisconsin Skier In: The Last Ride

Last night from roughly 10:00 pm through 11:00 pm, at the international headquarters of The Wisconsin Skier we experienced a thunderstorm. Being that I was in and out of serious sleep I did not know of the severity of that storm, but reports throughout the day indicated the storm was a nasty one. That storm continued on and passed out onto Lake Michigan.

Then comes this report from The Chicago Sun Times:

The bodies of two sailors who disappeared when their boat capsized in a storm during the Chicago Yacht Club’s Race to Mackinac were recovered by Coast Guard divers Monday morning and identified as the skipper of the boat and a crew member, both from Saginaw, Mich.

Did you ever think about possibility of having that ultimate exit happen to you while engaging in your passions?
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You Can Free Ski, but Can you Ski Gates?

By: The Wisconsin Skier In: The Last Ride

Ski Brule hosts races on a regular basis. Usually younger competitors ages 12-15 and under. Watching those kids ski during the day is real fascinating, no fear lots of comfort and they ski fast and furiously. At least when free skiing.

Last spring I watched them closely on the race courses. Not so impressive (not a knock) when they have to ski according to another’s whim.

Of course free skiing is always easier, because you can always say I meant to do that. However, very rare in daily life can one get away with that. We are always measured by others, by our peers, by our subordinates, and by our superiors and even in our personal lives we have to navigate life around the gates imposed by others.
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Turn off Your Autopilot!

By: The Wisconsin Skier In: The Sharp Edge

Too many times in our lives we cruise on autopilot. We wake up, we go through some routine, we go to bed. We wake up the next day hoping something changes,nothing changes but we repeat the routine. I am not going to repeat the cliché, but when something is not working we have to move on from it. How many of us turn off the autopilot and really take charge of our lives, our finances, our health, our relationships, our…?

We all fall into that trap from time to time. We find something comfortable and it may even really suit our needs. The Grateful Dead in Uncle John’s Band sings: