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The people part. Strangers who changed a trip, a community that turned into a company, kids who reset the whole scale, and what I keep getting wrong about paying attention.

Every good thing in my life arrived through a person, usually one I had no reason to meet. Travel is the cheapest way I know to make that happen on purpose. The rest is just showing up and putting the phone down.

Strangers

The trip is the excuse. The people are the thing that actually happens to you.

Family

The part that turned out to matter most, written from inside it rather than after.

What gets in the way

Screens, distance, and the particular loneliness of being somewhere beautiful with no one to tell.

Building a community, not an audience

BootsnAll was a forum with a business attached, in that order. Twenty-five years later that is still the only kind I know how to build.

People who set the standard

Coaches, athletes, old friends. Mostly a running argument with myself about humility.

What it adds up to

The posts I wrote when I stopped to check whether any of this was pointed the right way.

Want to talk? sean@keener.org. I read everything.

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