Happy Thanksgiving fellow riders,
Thanksgiving is most definitely the best holiday of the year, you get to spend quality time with your family and friends, and you can eat to your hearts content and still not feel guilty while eating desert right after, but most importantly of all Thanksgiving is a time where you can reflect on what really makes you happy.
For myself, I have a lot to be thankful for. Starting with my family, who might possibly be some of the most fun and all around great people you could ever meet. If you have ever had a chance to meet them you know what I am talking about and you can see how my personality came into play. My parents have always kept me in line while still having fun 90% of the time, and my bro is the most special person in my life and I will always have him on my right side. We didn’t grow up in the most high scale of places, we are definitely a working class family at its finest, and I will never ask for anything more. As a family we have lost a lot and gained just as much, but those are the facts of life that everyone deals with at one time or another. Nothing makes me happier than to have them in my life. My friends are in my heart just as much as my family, If I gave specific shoutouts you all would be cycling through a lot of names just for the fact that a lot of people have touched me so far. I have seen the good, bad, and the ugly in the majority of them and could never turn my back completely to any of them.
More important of all I am thankful for this thing that we call skiing and snowboarding. This sport that we partake in is completely incredible, every time I click those skis in nothing else in the world matters anymore. I could care less about riding a rail, taking off a jump, shredding powder, or sloshing through the slush and “loose granular” that we have grown to love at Ober. Every problem that has ever been on my shoulders vanishes just by charging through the snow. Personally skiing has shaped my life for the better and I can only dream that I will be doing it until I am placed 6 feet deep. To me, skiing has lost its literal meaning as a sport, and become a lifestyle that I have a hard time putting into words.
I want everyone to have a fun year on the slopes. Who cares if you don’t happen to land that next big trick, keep practicing and having fun until you stomp it someday. Come say hey if you ever see me on the mountain, I am always down to ride with whoever whenever and give high-fives until our hands are numb.
Much love to my family and friends, you guys are always in my heart. Pa, Aunt Velinda, and everyone else who happens to not be with me anymore, I love you and think about you everyday.
-Paul “Paullie D” Ronald Maurice Dunn
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