I’ve got a freebie for you:
https://www.yousendit.com/download/WFJWeVduTkFGOFJWeHNUQw
I came across this recording of a seminar I did a long time ago called Taking Maximum Courage. A lot of people found it to be very helpful, and it was a lot of fun. I put it on 3 CDs. If you’d like a free download copy, copy and paste the link above to the address line of your browser for a download of CD # 1. It’ll be up from now till June 22th. No strings. I just think you might enjoy it, it includes the “Dreaded Moose Hunter Story,” and it’ll help you feel stronger. Tell some friends about it, because if enough people are interested enough to download it, I’ll put the second CD download up…for free. And if enough people download that, I’ll put the third free download up after that. As I said no strings. I’m just feeling good on this beautiful early Summer day.
I am not sitting in my usual big, comfortable, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room. I am happily enthroned on the porch swing, under a big old oak tree. I have my shoes off, and I have noticed that my socks are adding a certain pungency to the fragrance of the flowers and the newly cut grass. Early Summer. My favorite time of the year.
Summer is a woman…hot, sexy, wild, hazy, soft, flashy, dangerous when wet, full of laughs, tears, stings and bites, endlessly beautiful, satin smooth, fragrant, promising, crushing…changeable. Summer has stars in her night eyes, with thunder and crickets, and little lover bugs flashing tiny lights hoping to find some little lover bug passion. I love the sand between the toes, and the surf in Summer’s song. She has flowers and newly cut grass for perfume, and sweating, flexing naked passion in her nights.
I sometimes take my Lady Wonder Wench flying in our little plane on soft summer nights. We strap on the plane, fire up the engine, run the check lists, and taxi between the blue taxiway lights…then line up with the white runway lights…turn on the flashing strobes on the wing tips…then full takeoff power, a rumbling race down the runway, and we lift gently into the summer night…from down on the ground it looks like our marker lights are flicking between the stars.
Down below in the summer night, people are loving, crying, earning each other’s trust, taking each other’s lives, laughing, writing last letters, being born… some are leaving, and some are connecting with each other for the first time. And some of those first time connections are the only times. Others out last lifetimes. There are love words in very quiet voices. Sometimes there’s only a secret kind of silence…then a quick breath, and a sudden “yes”…and the sensual sound of smooth silk sliding across warm skin.
Early Summer. It seems like just the most precious moment out of the whole year to me. That’s why instead of sitting inside at my desk working, I’m sitting out here, under a big old oak tree, watching a hawk slowly swinging around in a thermal…he’s not moving a wing…I think he’s watching me. It’s like he knows I’m a happy guy. And he’s wondering why. My life is full of funny, happy things. There’s other stuff too of course. But I have a thing going for me that I call the Gratitude Attitude. It’s in my book, Staying Happy Healthy And Hot…We’re the brand new Louie Louie Generation.
The Louie Louie Generation’s Gratitude Attitude is pretty simple and very powerful. For example, I now have gray hair. But the Gratitude Attitude…means hey, remember, I have hair which is more than lots of guys can say. And besides I like to think gray hair makes me look like either an airline pilot, a fully tenured professor, or Jay Leno. Gratitude Attitude. You can apply it to big things too, like We have lots of problems in our country right now. But the Gratitude Attitude says…”Yeah, but the word “we” means we’ve got US. And we’re winners.” The Gratitude Attitude. It turns stuff in your life around. Like instead of “Not tonight dear, I have a headache,” you find yourself saying “Not tonight headache, I have a dear.”
The Gratitude Attitude puts a smile on your face. Which is good. Because, As Big Louie says in Staying Happy Healthy And Hot, “You can never tell when something wonderful is going to happen to you.” So you can never tell when somebody is going to fall in love with your smile.
Dick’s Details Quiz – All answers are in the current podcast.
1- When are male kangaroos most likely to buy female kangaroos a drink?
2- Why won’t you ever see a horse or a rat on the cover of the bathing suit edition of Sports Illusrated?
3- What do turtles have in common with people at a singles bar on Saturday nights ?
Dick’s Details. They take your mind off your mind.
Lots of powerful magic happens in the Summer. There are three stories about summer in my book, Staying Happy Healthy And Hot. One’s called Lazy Crazy Hazy Days, and another is called Soft Summer Sounds. But the one I like best is called She’s Saving His Seat. I’ll never forget what happened in that one. There’s a story about some powerful summer magic in the Night Connections 2 Personal Audio CD. It’s called, “The Headhunter’s Woman.”
The headhunter did it. He risked it all. He took another man’s wife into his life. And she went…happily. Now…before you pass judgement on them…for what they did on that soft summer night…and many nights after…before you condemn that summer magic…think about this. It ended a lifeless marriage, and it also freed the headhunter’s wife and her boss to feel their passion together again. Magic lives. It’s strange and it’s powerful and passionate. And wasn’t this magic? It killed guilt, and it freed lust so it could grow into a new passionate love. For all of them. Summer magic.
The Headhunter’s Woman is from the Night Connections 2 Personal Audio CD. If you like it, you can just keep the current podcast. Or if you want a fresh copy, just go back and check out the Night Connections 2 icon on the home page.
Early Summer. Don’t let her slip away from you. She won’t be here for long. Minute by minute, she slips away. Watermelon-ing becomes apple bobbing…then September’s song, and before you know it you’re singing Jingle Bells…and hoping for another early Summer day…like this one. That’s why I’m sitting out here on my back deck instead of working.
Minute by minute, the summer slips. And the best we can do is catch her as she falls…and taste her, and touch her, and love her…minute by minute. The minutes of our lives go by so fast.
Dick,
Please forgive how long it’s been since I have communicated with you. But I hope you Lady Wonder Wench and his Louieness and those who are important in your life are well and happy.
But the most important thing is that the fourth of July is right around the corner, looking forward to those cookouts and the fireworks.
I remember those Summer days when I was done with school, and was waiting with baited breath for my birthday. Enjoying the baseball games in the local park with all my friends, arguing about what was a foul ball or not. They were good times. Then I would go to Scout camp here on The Isle of Long.
But time did it’s sneaky thing and moved on, and the only thing we have left are our memories, but time can be very relentless and keeps moving on.
So the only thing we can do is treasure those memories like they are the gold they are.
The Best to you all,
Don
“Hi, sorry to said that there is no plugin that i know of.”