First shots with new Insta360 X3 Camera.

First shots with new Insta360 Camera.

In preparation to make content from the Royal Enfield Himalayan, I ordered a Insta360 camera to replace old GoPros!

It’s wellness Wednesday when I go out and run some errands and make time on my way home to visit a beautiful place that I haven’t seen in sometime. As I edited this on Hunt, the good stuff, Thursday, it really showed how fortunate I am to be able to have Access to such beautiful places and to live in a country where I have the freedom to visit these places safely.

In this video, you see the results and a little bit of the learning curve as I try to figure out the new 360 camera in the Insta 360 app that is loaded on my iPhone 12.

I take you a long as I run some errands to get some extra keys made for the Himalayan and then I take a trip up to Madison County nature Trail off of Green Mountain Road, which is located on a high ridge line between Huntsville and Owens Cross Roads, Alabama. I didn’t hike the trail, but if you decide to go up there, The 1.5 mile trail is around a 17 acre lake which is beautiful especially in the fall. It has been a long time since I’ve been up there, and the last time I was up, there was with Janette, so I thought it might be a great place to go and experiment with the new 360 camera.

On the way down from the mountain, I was fortunate to see a beautiful Bald Eagle sitting in the top of a tree.


It’s good to be moving forward… it’s good to be acknowledging the grief and discovering healthy ways to keep moving with it as part of life…

Janette had Stage IV cervical cancer and a mass around the kidney and one in the lung. We’ve tried Chemo/radiation, KeyTruda and TIVDAK with Dr Kirby and his staff at Huntsville Hospital since May 2021. We didn’t have success with any of those, so we were invited to Augusta GA to be considered for a Trial at the Augusta University Cancer Center and Dr Ghamande in OCT 2022. We weren’t accepted for the trial and rather than move back to aggressive chemo, we opted for Hospice back in Alabama. She passed on Sunday, 20 NOV 2022, just before sunset!

The grieving process is rough, even when you know it’s coming and even when you truly are happy that their pain has ceased and your loved one is in a better place.

I look at Mondays as mental health Mondays, just like Wednesdays are Wellness Wednesdays, Thursdays are Hunt The Good Stuff Thursdays and Fridays are TGIF days!

I have been learning a lot about the grieving process and I’m grateful I have the capability and chance to learn from this experience….as I enter this phase…I am not sure but I feel like are blessings or maybe a “silver lining” about a terminal illness versus being killed by an accident or dying suddenly from something like a heart attack…..I had the heads up that it’s coming and that started upon diagnosis over 1.5 years ago…. So I had an opportunity to start working thru some of this early on and tackle what the end might be like along the way….In this phase after she actually passed, I’m finding triggers for both positive and negative thoughts and emotional hiccups…so learning to deal with those has unique challenges, but overall I can see glimpses of peace that is already transforming and shining thru the tunnel of loss, grief, anger, guilt, denial and even acceptance etc… time heals in the essence for me that it provides opportunities to practice dealing with things and getting better at it…

HTGS= Hunt The Good Stuff. This is one of the key parts of Military’s resiliency training and it is a little bit more than just the glass is half full. The intent of this is to help rewire your brain away from the negativity bias, and once it has a more optimistic outlook that will increase your mental agility and often times you will see options or solutions to challenges and problems, or simply just a better way to look at friction than before. There is much more that builds on resilience, but having a more optimistic outlook can also help improve relationships, which is another very big key in developing increased resilience and protective factors. The slight difference between HTGS and just the glass is half full is that in HTGS, the individual also needs to note on what did they do to cause that good thing or what can they do to improve the chances of that good thing happening again.

Please go back and see the celebration of life here on YouTube or if you’d like to see the long version that includes the music, you should be able to see the entire Celebration of Life at this link. https://vimeo.com/event/2714854

“Be Good to Each Other!”

Remember if you’re struggling, to seek professional help from experts if you need it but whatever you do, keep plodding along!

CANCER SUCKS! But there is HOPE and lots of HELP out there!

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