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How one man, whose positive attitude and refusal to be defined by others’ negative attitudes, limitations or low expectations, was able to successfully navigate through this world and life using the tools of humility, hard work, and resolve to take punches from life but always get up before the ten count, and was, as a result, able to partake in and successfully complete life-changing adventures which ultimately prepared him to not only achieve unparalleled success in his professional life endeavors but to also achieve zenith spirituality and a zest for altruistic, humane, and benevolent exceptionalism to encourage, strengthen, and inspire his colleagues and clients daily to be happier, healthier, more confident, more resilient and exude positivity and kindness daily.

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Publié par	Xlibris US
Date de parution	14 décembre 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669851431
Langue	English

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One Man’s Unfathomable Adventure, Beyond Wildest Imagination

Steven Clark Kent Thomas

Copyright © 2022 by Steven Clark Kent Thomas.

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CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Shade Tree and The Origin Of A Species: Aim For The Next Galaxy And Visit Each Planet And Star During Your Journey
Chapter 2 What defines a “Unfathomable Adventure, Beyond Wildest Imagination”?
Chapter 3 The Musician Years of Peter And Luke - Mastering The Concept And Concentration Skill Termed “Compartmentalization”
Chapter 4
Chapter 5 Peter and Luke’s Father: An Honest Assessment & Positive Learning Points Derived In An Eclectic & Positive (“The cup is always half full.”) Manner
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8 Leveraging University Education To Transition To Graduate School After Which Luke Could Effectively Explore Other Galaxies and Expand His Universe
Chapter 9 Undergraduate University Education, Medical School, Internship, and Flight School: Adventures, Challenges & Opportunities to “Raise and win your game.”
Chapter 10 “The Years of Living Dangerously”
Chapter 11 Luke’s Flight School & Military Deployments: Adventures & Perils
Chapter 12 Luke’s Medical School Application Process Adventure, Medical School Acceptance & Flourishing Career as a Subspecialist Physician and Surgeon
Chapter 13 Graduate School Trials, Tribulations & The Thrill of Ultimate Victory
Chapter 14
Chapter 15 Crucial And Essential Life Lessons and Parallels Learned During Luke’s Residency and Fellowship Surgery Training, That Indelibly Shape One’s Future
Chapter 16

“BE DARING, be different, be impractical, BE ANYTHING that will assert integrity of purpose AND IMAGINATIVE VISION against the PLAY-IT-SAFERS.” – Cecil Beaton

Chapter One
Shade Tree and The Origin Of A Species: Aim For The Next Galaxy And Visit Each Planet And Star During Your Journey
In fifth grade, during lunch break, Luke sat in the shade under a tree in the grammar school yard looking out over the four baseball backstops at each of the four corners of the school yard. With his best friend, Yarg, sitting nearby, Luke asked the following questions: “What do you imagine we will be when we grow up? What profession or line of work will we be involved in? Will we be married? To whom will we be married? Luke’s best friend, Yarg, responded by saying “I have no idea.” Luke agreed. How could one possibly know what their future occupation will be without any knowledge of their likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses, passions, the hobbies they enjoy, the special skills they have developed while maturing from childhood to young adulthood. Under that shade tree, Luke and his best friend, determined that they would indeed evolve, much like the origin of a species described by Charles Darwin, but in this case “Creation Evolution” would be at play. We both believed we were created, by God, for a reason that we did not yet know and for a purpose that we had not yet fulfilled. Luke and Yarg would have to trust in God, and evolve after their “birth creation”, and become the persons God intended them to be. Luke and Yarg also hoped on that day that someday in the future, they would be able to revisit these questions and have more definitive answers that were satisfying and rewarding as a result of our humble origin and starting point but, in the future, marvel at the metamorphosis and transformation that occurred in their lifetimes and resulted from their determination to study and work hard in life so that, one day far into the future, they would have a family and work at a job that was both challenging but worthy of both their dedication and challenging path that they followed from childhood to adulthood. Would the time Luke and his best friend, Yarg, spent and the earnest effort that they expended each day of their future adult lives, going to work faithfully and optimistically, allow Luke and Yarg to return home to their families each evening, who hopefully were being “well cared for and well provided for” as a result of both Luke and Yarg’s diligent daily occupational labor and honest, hard work? Luke and Yarg certainly hoped that this would be the case for both of them in the future. In a sense, both Luke and Yarg hoped their life and experience of growing up in a small country town in the United States of America would resemble that of a two tiny mustard seeds (1-2 millimeters in diameter each) that, after planted and watered, grow into two mustard trees (Luke and Yarg) that are each 2.7 meters tall (approximately 2,700 times the size of the seeds planted for each tree!), similar to one of the most famous stories ever told by one of the greatest teachers to walk on and live on this planet.
Luke’s best friend, Yarg, later found his wife, Airam, who was and is a working professional dental hygienist with many years of experience, and an excellent mother to their son and daughter and a devout Christian…truly a blessing to all her family. Luke’s best friend, Yarg, is a rock-solid best friend and an anchor of stability in the community and city where Luke and his best friend grew up and established myriad fantastic memories as grammar school and high school classmates and soulmates forever. Luke’s older brother and soulmate, Peter, is also a very good friend of Luke’s best friend. Peter’s best friend and Luke are similarly very close and great friends to present as well. It seems like an ideal situation when soulmate brothers can also share soulmate best friends who can always be relied on to be faithful and helpful in joyful and difficult times. Luke recently visited Peter’s best friend who is now a “cats and dogs specialist” veterinarian, married to his veterinarian wife, whom he met in veterinarian school after college in Washington State and they work together in the clinic they recently purchased from the original owner who offered them positions in his clinic just after graduating from vet school (after two missionary trips to Cambodia, the first without kids, the second trip with their two kids).
“Survival of the fittest” is only half the key to success. Without a positive attitude and grandiose dreams for a better future, one can truncate, prematurely, one’s otherwise limitless future and potential positive impact on this planet we call earth. In short, dream big to surpass your wildest aspirations and dreams of adventure and world travel. You may then gain a world perspective and develop skills of diplomacy and tolerance of other cultures and societies, transforming you as a person and your perspective into that of a statesman. Thereafter you may be empowered to utilize your gifts and skills to truly impact the world and your fellow man and woman in the most fantastic journey of all time.
Luke was the second-born brother to Peter who was a little more than one year older than Luke. Damascus steel sharpens steel and Peter sharpened Luke like the sharpest Samurai sword ever forged. Peter had vast and far-reaching influence over Luke’s development into a warrior defender of democracy, the Christian faith, and the origin and founding principles of the United States of America. Both Peter and Luke became spokesmen and statesman promoting and defending these issues and values, unafraid to defend the founding fathers’ Bible-based, Christian origins and vision for the establishment and perpetual existence, Creation evolution, and survival for the new country they were creating for equality, freedom, dignity, and respect for all humans which they chose to name the United States of America.
What is the origin of a species, and of a warrior and statesman, and what was the meaning of the phrase that Charles Darwin termed “Survival of the Fittest”? Luke and his older brother Peter were “latch key kids.” They had a “baby sitter” (Noaj, who would play Disney movies or records and children songs or albums such as: “Little Red Caboose chug, chug, chug…”, “Puff The Magic Dragon” “Mary Poppins”, “Sound of Music”, “One Hundred And One Dalmatians” and other children songs and movies until our parents arrived home. During Peter and Luke’s early kindergarten days, both parents worked. Mother as an occupational therapist and father was a high school English and Geography teacher at the one and only country high school in our small (approximately 1400 person) town. We walked to grammar school daily which was several city blocks away. At a slightly older age, Peter and Luke had keys to let themselves into their house (an old, rented manse [definition: clergy house formerly inhabited by, a minister, usually used in the context of Presbyterian church; aka pastor’s residence or home]). For our family, this old manse was offered at a lower rent rate because the house was deemed too old and an undesirable residence that could not and would not e