{"id":1814,"date":"2015-09-15T16:21:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anartfuldogger.com\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2015-11-19T08:20:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T08:20:22","slug":"the-legend-of-scott-dinsmore-a-link-to-the-past-present-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/anartfuldogger.com\/the-legend-of-scott-dinsmore-a-link-to-the-past-present-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of Scott Dinsmore: A Link to the Past, Present, and Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Here’s something NPSR\u2014non-pet sitting-related, a favorite acronym among pet care pros.<\/p>\n I’ve already lined up some sundry, not-usually-yapped-about animal-themed topics for this blog, but I interrupt my regularly scheduled blog program to take the time to remember a good friend and mentor, Scott Dinsmore of Live Your Legend<\/a>.<\/p>\n He practically died for his cause\u2014living his legend in his rather short 32 years on Planet Earth while trekking across it as part of his nomadic, off-the-grid adventure<\/a> that kicked off last year.<\/p>\n Yep, a martyr of sorts. A happy-go-Luckey (pun intended on his middle name!), gregarious, duck- and iguana-loving, surf’s-up-dude, bust-a-move-on-the-dance-floor type of martyr, a diehard bubble-gum, teeny-bopper pop fanboy without a whiff of the typical snotty coastal SoCal air about him.<\/p>\n Part of his itinerary in November 2015 also included Indonesia, my native country. It would’ve been a hoot and a half if it really happened.<\/p>\n It would be a hoot and a half cubed if he took part in the upcoming Pet Care Visibility conference<\/a> hosted by my favorite professional pet care community in the entire cyberspace and real life, PetSittingOlogy<\/a>. Incidentally (or accidentally?), I had also suggested Scott as one of the keynote speakers there. I thought that PSO pack leader Josh Cary and Scott, both having an upbeat personality and being mega-proponents of blogging and relationship building, would totally hit it off.<\/p>\n Sadly, none of the two scenarios above came to pass.<\/p>\n Just yesterday afternoon, I got word via e-mail from my Ottawa, Ontario friend whom I met in Scott’s flagship networking-for-anti-networkers program, How to Connect with Anyone<\/a> (CWA), about Scott’s freak accident on Mt. Kilimanjaro<\/a>, a supposedly safe climb. It was ironically a lifelong dream he had with Chelsea, his wife. (For the record, she’s also originally from the Inland Empire. Yes, talk about kind of hitting pretty close to home.)<\/p>\n All along, I’d been keeping up with his travel log via his e-newsletters. I couldn’t believe he was gone too soon. I almost wanted to kick myself in the booty for not having interacted with him more often on his blog posts during his travel.<\/p>\n