Jonathon Lochner

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Los Mets ⚾ Colts 🏈
Retired Janitor 🧹
...so I can die with a smile on my face without feeling' like the good Lord gypped me 😎

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon 9 lifts off from pad 40 in Florida, delivering 23 @Starlink satellites to the constellation ahead of completing our first droneship landing off the coast of The Bahamas

[Siena Basketball @SienaMBB]

That first win feeling

#MarchOn x #SienaSaints

[Metsmerized Online @Metsmerized]

Best owners in baseball.

[SNY Mets @SNY_Mets]

Howie Rose’s call of Pete Alonso’s go-ahead homer in the 9th is EPIC 🗣️

[Jonathon Lochner @jon_lochner]

@BWCTorch
Let's goooooooo 🏌️‍♂️

[Kyle Porter @KylePorterNS]

I remember when men were men and presidents pounded driver with reckless abandon instead of hollering about their handicaps on national television.

[Metsmerized Online @Metsmerized]

Mets baseball is back

[Jim McMahon @JimMcMahon]

There were more in the cooler.

[Anthony Vicino @AnthonyVicino]

My dad picked me up from the South Dakota State Chess Championship when I was 13.

I tossed my trophy in the back and crawled into the passenger seat.

He asked: “How’d you do?”

Me: “I won.”

The words he said next have followed me for the past 26 years.

He said:

“Good… you were supposed to.”

I struggled beneath the weight of those words for many years.

Struggled beneath the expectation that excellence was the standard, not the exception.

I thought it meant I had to be the best at everything I did.

And so that became the metric against which I measured my worth.

Which in itself became a sort of unwinnable game…

Unwinnable because If you’re expected to win…then what real pride can you take in the victory?

Then again, if you lose… well… What the hell?

Tony Robbins said:

“Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure.”

I lived that truth for years…

I tried desperately to use my achievements over others to fill that hole I felt inside of me.

That feeling of never being enough.

It took many years, many conversations with my Dad, and a whole lot of introspection to realize I’d made a mistake…

I’d misinterpreted my Dad’s question…

See, when he asked:

“How did you do?”

He wasn’t asking about the result… he could see the trophy in the backseat, afterall.

He was asking about me and my performance.

My input, not the output.

Did I play as well as I could… or did I just get by.

I think a lot about this quote from Star Trek:

“You can do everything right and still lose. That’s not weakness, that’s life.”

The reverse is also true.

You can do everything wrong and still win. That’s not strength, that’s luck.

And the truth is, I got lucky that year at State.

I didn’t play up to my ability.

In the championship round I blundered badly and should’ve lost.

That’s just life…

But here’s the lesson I’ve taken away from all this:

(and truly, it’s changed my life)

You don’t get to choose what happens to you in this life…

But you DO get to choose what those things mean.

For me, here’s how I’ve chosen to interpret that conversation with my dad all those years ago:

It’s not about being the best, it’s about doing your best.

And I think in the grand scheme of things…

If you can show up everyday and…

Just do your best…

Everything’s gonna work out just fine.

[Darius Aniunas @dariusaniunas]

Good morning, dear friends and followers! It's Monday, so let's make each moment count and create unforgettable memories! Cape Cod sunrise! Nauset beach, Orleans, Massachusetts.

[Jonathon Lochner @jon_lochner]

@dottie_pepper @LPGA @SkiWhiteface

[Gov't Mule @govtmuleband]

07.28.2023
SPAC
Saratoga Performing Arts Center

Set 1:
Same As It Ever Was
Thorns Of Life
Painted Silver Light
Devil Likes It Slow %
Mule
Dreaming Out Loud
Thorazine Shuffle

Set 2 (With Jackie Greene on Keys, Guitar, Vocals):
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) @%
Have A Cigar &%
Speak To Me
Breathe @
On The Run
Time > Breathe reprise @
The Great Gig In The Sky @
Money @%
One Of These Days
Fearless
Echoes (Part 1) @
> Echoes (Part 2) @%
Comfortably Numb @

Encore 1:
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-XII) %

Encore 2:
Wish You Were Here @

% w/ Ron Holloway
@ w/ Machan Taylor & Sophia Ramos
& Matt Abts - lead vocal

📷: David Sullenger

[Jonathon Lochner @jon_lochner]

@JomboyMedia @BWCTorch

[Bruce Springsteen: Blog It All Night @blogitallnight]

Bruce Springsteen just casually singing “My Hometown” in a local Ireland bar…nothing to see here

[Darius Aniunas @dariusaniunas]

Just when I thought I’ve seen it all, today’s beach sunrise swoops in like, “hold my coffee!” 🌅☕😂
Nauset beach, Cape Cod. #sunrise #ocean #beach

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Imagine how dumb you have to be - you steal state secrets - stuff them in some hefty bags - stash em in the pool cabana room - & the feds show up - & ASK - can u give all this stuff back ?
The idiot lies - twice - then gets caught on his own fucking camera - with his fat face and grubby paws in the hefty bag still trying to figure out what he can sell to the Saudis ?
How dumb? Seriously

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

Vintage reaction to a newly passed drinking and driving law.

[New York Giants @Giants]

I'm just here for the comments 🤔

[Jonathon Lochner @jon_lochner]

@BWCTorch @andreadrake27
Wow!! 😲

[Timothy Burke @bubbaprog]

By request, here is the multicam view of the feed from Times Square, All-22, and ESPN, Georgia, and Ohio State radio calls, as it happened onscreen live:

[Tim Wronka @TimWronka]

34 years ago today, Sgt. Al Powell helped stop a terrorist attack at Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. May his bravery never be forgotten.