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Making Your Happiness a Priority
I take happiness very seriously. Yours and mine. You’ve heard me preach before, life is short. It is imperative we do not take that for granted. I want us both to make the most of every single day we are given and give ourselves permission to spend a few moments focused on what makes us…
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Six Lessons Surfing Taught Me About Life
Ironically, I have learned many lessons about life through surfing. Over the course of my 11 years as a surfer, I have discovered ways to correlate what goes on in the water to what happens on land. Surfing has been an excellent teacher. Here are six lessons surfing has taught me about living a…
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Joy Is Found In The Sea
It is no secret I have been wrestling with the impending completion of our Wahine Wednesday goal. The achievement of surfing every Wednesday for a year which is quickly approaching. I have been questioning whether or not to continue beyond the 52 weeks and if we do, what that might look like. At times, I…
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First-The Beginnings of a Surfer
Beginnings….. Like a rose bud that is sheltered from the elements having yet to completely unfurl and experience the warmth of the sun, the first time surfer is just beginning on an amazing journey that comes with riding a surfboard. They have no idea the exhilaration that is about to greet them as they…
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Addicted to Surfing
When I first started surfing, I quickly became stoked. This surf stoke turned into a surf addition. Stoked is a word surfers use to express their enthusiasm for surfing. Stoke is synonymous with joy. The slang version of the word stoke(d) is: exhilarated; excited; intoxicated or stupefied as with a drug; high Just as with a…
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Stoke Is A Verb
Surfers use the word stoke a lot. “I was so stoked yesterday, the waves were firing.” They use stoke in place of happy, joy or fun. They use it to describe the way surfing makes them feel. However, a traditional English dictionary version of the word stoke is: To stir up and feed a fire; To tend a…