Getting quickly dressed this morning I started with the trousers worked with a color that I knew my pink shirt and royal blue blazer would work with. Grabbed a couple of ties and settled on the one in the pic and added a beige with blue silk pocket square. Went to my porch for the pic thinking how I was going to post on the triad of colors. Blue, pink and brown. Even picked my new brown shoes and blue patterned Pendleton socks. When I got out to the car in the sunlight I realized I grabbed my charcoal pants instead of the identical pair of brown pants. 😎. Well there you go. Glad charcoal works with all of these. 🤷🏻 OOTD 1987 MTM Royal blu blazer Pink shirt By Charles Trywitt Beige silk pocket square Robert Talbott tie Charcoal grey (not brown) herringbone reverse pleat trousers (MTM hand me downs from pop) Pendleton socks Martin Dingman shoes and belt. Thank God for versatile CTM when one dresses in a poorly lighted closet

Date night, last night. Had a incredible time in Alexandria VA. Sotn: Armaf oddesey homme (black)

Good morning gentlemen, I was thinking this morning at breakfast and I was having a glass of orange juice, this came to mind that we all need to consider. If I was to take an orange and squeeze it ask you what will come out you would probably say juice. And if I said well, no matter how hard squeeze it do you think you’ll ever get pineapple juice out of this? Do you think you’ll get cranberry juice? Do you think you’ll get apple juice you’d say no,of course not you would get orange juice. If I were to further ask you, why when I squeeze this orange,orange juice come out it’s an orange and that’s what’s inside. That’s the answer. That’s the truth when you squeeze an orange you get out of it what’s inside. If we extend that metaphor to yourself, and someone squeezes you that is put pressure on you that it says something about you, that you find offensive; whatever it might be. If someone squeezes you and what comes out of you from anger, and out of you comes hatred, and out comes judgment, criticism, condemnation, fear comes out of you. Out comes all kinds of stuff because you’ve been squeezed. You don’t wanna be squeezed; and you believe in your heart, somehow you believe that it was the person who squeeze me that caused this to come out of me. But the truth of it is just like the orange; when someone squeezes you, and out of you comes anything, it’s because that’s what’s inside. Gentlemen, it’s time to really look deep inside and do some self reflection and evaluation of ourselves, who are we? What do we represent? What do we want people to see in us? It’s not too late to change, what is holding you back is you.

A satisfying end to a week full of long days. Finally got Celtic Cheer out on a maiden 2026 voyage. Keeping the systems running on a 1989 boat can be a continuous challenge , engine starter, fresh water pump AC pump (should arrive tomorrow) makes the boat a fix-it project rather than a sail-it adventure. Fortunately a son of some very good friends who are also clients wanted to impress his girlfriend for her birthday and so I had an excuse to get her out in the lake. Great winds, cloudy evening so it wasn’t hot and we watched the sunset at the marina restaurant. My OOTD was very low key grey shorts/Swimtrunks, grey sperry topsiders, greyish olive checked shirt and my favorite pub J Farleys grey and white cap. Plopped down last night after securing the boat-Whew.