Greg Mans: Second Chance

WHITEHALL, MI —

April 16, 2024

Note: this is the first installment of Greg's writing to accompany Zach's, which will fit, although it is not limited to, a similar format.

Entry 1:

I'm inspired.

To make a difference with my life, as you are with your journey. I'm taking a few steps to encourage the momentum of a few things along my own.

I'm thoughtful about what's important and how as humans we seem to step away from nature a little bit with our priorities and the way we live. I long for a chance to do it again sort of, make-believing in past lives and next lives for a moment or two just for a sort of La La Land, and then accepting that it's in this life and in this body that I must live my next life. Then, like you, just lace up my shoes and get to it. In my next life . . .

And, here I am in my next life, this morning, right now, and I get to figure out how to do it now, or so is my choice. I, too. Looking out the window at the beautiful day, all that I've learned from falling and bleeding and scratching and watching, from here forward, my next life is now. My second chance is from here.