General
Quote about living
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." Soren Kierkegaard
Quote about giving up
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." Thomas A Edison
Special Olympics ambassador responds to media use of the R-word
When I was younger, kids use to sing a little song that went something like this "Stick and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me". The reality is that words do hurt people and insulting thousands of people with one tweet is what Ann Coulter did during the last presidential candidate debate. <a href="https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/260581147493412865" target="_blank"><img src="https://ekiledjian2.micro.blog/uploads/2025/4557d6a373.jpg" alt=""></a> Special olympics athlete and global messenger John Franklin Stephens decided to respond and respond beautifully he did (link).
Quote about Chaos
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. - Deepak Chopra
Quote about peace
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. - Buddha
Quote about positivity
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin
Quote about coffee and awakening your spirit
Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep. Fran Drescher
Quote about solitude
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. May Sarton
Quote about Choices
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. J. K. Rowling
Quote about Truth
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. Claude Adrien Helvetius
Quote about the importance of creativity
We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people. - Roger Wilkins
Quote about mountain
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. - Richard M. Nixon
Quote about thinking
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them - Albert Einstein
Quote about road
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll
Quote about being lonely
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Quote about growth
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Kleen Kanteen is the king of water bottles for good reason
[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“600”]27 oz classic Kleen Kanteen [/caption] I recently completed a 3.5 day survival training camps and it reiterated the importance of a "good canteen". now good means different things to different people but in my case I was looking for: a chemical free canteen without a liner coat on the inside of the bottle. The Klean kanteen is made from 18/8 stainless steel which is chemical free & doesn't require a liner (like aluminium). a bottle I could boil water in if I needed to (sanitize questionable water while camping or in a survival situation).
PiCO is the world's smallest bottle opener
Summer is almost upon us and I see lot's of bottle opening in your future... Why not open those bottles with style using the worlds smallest and lightest bottle opener? <img src="https://ekiledjian2.micro.blog/uploads/2025/42e61d2c5f.jpg" alt=""> It's small size means it needs to rethink some of the basics of bottle opening. It's too short to use the bottle body for leverage so it uses leverage from the keychain to actually open the bottle cap. Its as small as a US quarter.
LifeStraw Review : sucking hard for clean water
In survival, we have the rules of 3: 3 minutes without air 3 hours without shelter 3 days without water 3 weeks without food Depending on the terain, season and weather, shelter and water can change places. Dependably clean water is a basic human need. Go without it for just a few days and see what happens. In a previous article about eh Steripen UV water sanitizing system (link) , I wrote this story