Yesterday, I wrote about imagination and seeking to let it soar. When this is done properly, one can fanaticize about that which one desires. I also paired my message with a picture of an Alaska Airline jet flying over Mt. Rainer. Beautiful!

It was my original thought to follow today with another image of Mt. Rainer and write about how it is always best to “Go to the top of the mountain.”

By this I mean to go to the highest level possible in any organization when seeking to get something big accomplished because “water flows down hill.”

Well, I’m just going to let that be for now because I have an even better thought after my day down with the owner of Renovo Bikes yesterday in which I finished my bike frame.

At the end of a rather long day in which I was largely focused on carefully sanding my bike frame with increasingly higher levels of grit in an effort to best assure that I had minimized cross grain scratches and otherwise made this phenomenal bike frame smooth to the touch, we added the Renovo decals and then I asked if I could have him take a picture of me.

“Sure! Why don’t you sit over there.”

As a not at all incidental aside, “over there” is the last of two parts of a bench assembly that he had been working on since late last year for the new George Lucas Museum in Los Angeles.[1] Pretty cool right!

Fortunately, I had the shirt that my artist friend Charles Sherman had given to me titled: Just Friends. See my 2025.07.04 – i.e. July Fourth – post about Just Friends [HERE]

Seeking to refresh your memory, I indicated in that blog post that I want to use my background in bringing neighbors to peace to a much higher level. I want to help the country to move away from its extreme division and instead come back together in peace.

In doing so, I have become fixated on the 1980’s “Miracle on Ice.”

This is non other than the US Olympic Hockey Team’s semi-final round, 4-3 win against (the by far) top seeded USSR – i.e. Russia – on their path to Olympic Gold!

And what does all of this have to do with Renovo and framing?

Quite simply, to be able to go after a goal. You have to have a clear image of what it is.

The whole US Hockey team had the goal of working together to put as many goals on the board while perhaps more importantly preventing Russia from doing the same to them.

Captain Mike Eurizione had the final goal of the day when he put the puck at the back of the net exactly half way in to the third period putting the US team up by 1.

And that’s when Jim Craig needed to continue his phenomenal goal tending.

I’ll try to pull the stats and add them here in due course, but it was something like 1 allowed goal of 29 shots on goal over the course of the 3rd period … which is absolutely insane!

What’s even more insane was the joy that was released by this victory. From a different broadcaster well before the quip was originated, this is truly “Must See TV.”[2]

Do You Believe in Miracles? … YES!!!

This was the “miracle” that USA Hockey head coach Herb Brooks envisioned and helped all of his young, amateur players to train for in order to secure this win and then the final win against Sweden to secure the gold.

Because the Cold War and generally being sick of the inue of the times, this game brought the US together.

That’s what I want too. I want to do my part to help bring the US together again. Yes!

Let US Be United!

When people from differing political parties are able to move from screwing each other to being Just Friends, this will happen.

And the way that I intend to help in making this happen is by racing a the 2026 Ironman in Lake Placid.

I’ll be wearing Just Friends as a flag during the 112 miles of biking next July 19.

I have clearly framed this as a mental image; this picture assists that too.

What is it that you really want?

Frame it up in your mind and think about it daily and soon you will train your mind to identify that which is needed to attain it. Let’s talk about that further in the next post.

Cheers! BZ/JUSTICE SMILES, pllc

Note [1] – See information about the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art [HERE].

Note [2] – See the last minute of the “Miracle on Ice” [HERE].