#234: The Trail Runner
Friday • August 14th 2020 • 8:59:53 pm • 920B
Mira Rai, How This Former Child Soldier Became an Ultrarunning Prodigy Mira Rai Kungsleden with Emelie Forsberg An Almost Perfect Race with Courtney Dauwalter Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (106 mi, through France, Italy and Switzerland) 2019 Replay Finisher...
#233: A Million Times More
Friday • August 14th 2020 • 4:51:09 pm • 4KB
When you were a baby you could see the world well enough, but what made a difference was watching it for a while. By observing the world we made sense of it, we noticed how things connect; and learned to participate. But we are also very good at becoming...
#232: Athletic Endurance
Thursday • August 13th 2020 • 8:34:57 pm • 2KB
Endurance, like speaking, or memorizing poems, and languages languages, or recalling details on the walls of our childhood home, streets of our city, is a talent we are all born with. Like memorizing a poem, or learning a language it is a slow process, we...
#231: On His One Hundredth Birthday, May 28, 2030.
Wednesday • August 12th 2020 • 9:35:16 pm • 3KB
Nothing was coincidental, it was strong and clear. The amateurs were the first, social networks came to a crawl. The signal originated nowhere other, than the uninhabitable Proxima Centauri b. There was an orbiting computer, they are spaced out 100 light...
#230: On A Wintry Starlit Night 17,000 Years Ago
Tuesday • August 11th 2020 • 7:15:56 pm • 444B
A legendary creature, from a winter 17,000 years ago. Still speaks of Might, at the Cave of Lascaux. It was not a hunt, but a Magical Sight, It was a Noble Megaloceros, on a wintry starlit night. A Family, and a Traveler, Had to go out and see, Some, said...
#229: On Listening to Audio Books
Monday • August 10th 2020 • 7:16:09 pm • 1KB
Audio Books, Video Lectures, Internet Lectures and Video Tutorials, are all extremely important for our heath, healing, and well being. One interesting way to start, is Travel and Adventure books. All the top rated books by Bill Bryson are fun and...
#228: Grow and Help Others Grow
Sunday • August 9th 2020 • 6:59:36 pm • 2KB
Do not let unfairness crush or burden you, rise up against it, and speak out. Do not let anyone or anything make you feel tired, tiredness will cloud your judgment until it is too late. Do not let anything stand between you and sunshine, the morning dew,...
#227: Inspirational Books
Saturday • August 8th 2020 • 6:20:13 pm • 2KB
We are each born to a unique environment, family arrangement, economic level, and intellectual culture. To be fair, unique environment is good so as long as it it positive, safe; it is just as beautiful to walk a Tree Root Bridge as it is Ride a Bull or...
#226: The Typographer
Friday • August 7th 2020 • 7:28:25 pm • 629B
Gemma O'Brien - Blurring the boundaries of typography, illustration and art Wake up & smell the fonts | Sarah Hyndman The power of typography | Mia Cinelli Typography - now you see it: Shelley Gruendler Hilary Kenna - Screen Typography: Words Made Usable...
#225: Within The Idea Of Growing Up
Friday • August 7th 2020 • 4:42:03 pm • 1KB
If you grant me, that growing up is more than mere aging, and that the other component is Intellectual Development. And if we agree that we each start near zero, and carry on upwards eventually becoming unique and creating undiscovered paths. And if we...
#224: An Evening Before A Run
Thursday • August 6th 2020 • 7:57:25 pm • 717B
I went bicycling today, but I was lost in thoughts all day. I thought about Typography and Art, and how evey Human Being is really smart. How people get busy, and how life is rarely easy. How we get tired, how creativity is made, otherwise it will just...
#223: On Finding Our Stars
Wednesday • August 5th 2020 • 6:57:05 pm • 764B
Before we learn what we should know, we must first learn how to grow. To break out of all the rooms and halls, we must destroy all the invisible walls. As we cannot reason-about what we can’t see, and so we must surpass our limits before we can think free...
#222: As Bright As The Sun
Tuesday • August 4th 2020 • 8:21:29 pm • 415B
May all your days add, may you never feel sad. Because it is hard to say, what things may. We certainly know not, the world; dot for dot. What we do know, is not to resign or live low. Because life is one, so live as bright as the sun. And as wise, as the...
#221: Blogging About Jogging
Monday • August 3rd 2020 • 9:01:08 pm • 850B
I woke up at five, and I felt alive. I left at five forty two, I could still smell the dew. The sun was still down, and the clouds looked brown. But I ran, like Superman. I had weights in each hand, ready to conquer Westland. Though by the time I got to...
#220: Rain, Web Design, and Thunder
Sunday • August 2nd 2020 • 8:12:11 pm • 753B
I was tossing and turning late at night, only to be awoken by thunder and a flash of light. The room shook and I felt it in my chest, but I was wearing earplugs so I didn't hear the rest. I used to be scared of thunder quite a bit, then I was told if you...
#219: Iron Mare
Saturday • August 1st 2020 • 8:23:00 pm • 695B
I woke up early, dressed barely. Just enough so that I am not bare, and jumped on my iron mare. We set course away from the sun, and just like that we ran. Some quarter way through, we had to turn left towards the dew. But then the road went straight, and...
#218: The Longboarder
Friday • July 31st 2020 • 9:46:58 pm • 573B
I Bought a Longboard! Longboard Girls Crew France - Road Trip Summer Meet Longboard Girls Crew Longboard Dancing With Korea’s Skating Sensation Longboarding Skills Musical Compilation Awesome Longboarding Girl Does Skateboard Dancing What to choose:...
#217: The Sunlit Dew
Friday • July 31st 2020 • 6:17:15 pm • 650B1
Sure, racing my bicycle is nice late in the day, but at the end I have to use a flashlight to find my way. Riding in the morning, the sun becomes so blinding halfway through, that I have to switch to sunglasses to continue enjoying the view. Mornings have...
#216: Cloudy With A Chance Of Beefcakes
Thursday • July 30th 2020 • 8:46:21 pm • 393B3
Goooolly, what a beautiful day today was, I rode around shirtless breaking all the laws. I woke up this morning and noticed how cloudy, I looked at my bicycle and said "Howdy!" I've decided to ride all the way to the end of the trail, and it took two...
#215: Coming to America
Wednesday • July 29th 2020 • 7:32:35 pm • 1KB
It has been a quarter of a century, but I still remember the sounds of New York, I can almost hear the busy parks, and cars and the occasional police siren. I still remember that a slice of New York Pizza across the street, is one dollar and twenty five...
#214: Riding Red
Tuesday • July 28th 2020 • 11:55:55 pm • 902B1
Sometimes I race my bicycle in the twilight, it is not too dark - there is still plenty of light. And to be safe, I bring my flashing lamp, and ride carefully like a real champ. But, oh boy, oh boy, is it nice, there are deer, bunnies, and little mice. Oh,...
#213: A Good Night's Rest
Monday • July 27th 2020 • 11:25:02 pm • 1KB
Life is always about learning and knowing, all those winds of change freely blowing. But there is something you must always remember, that you are a Raging Fire not a glowing ember. It is your right to strive and thrive and grow, may you melt all the...
#212: Ensue
Sunday • July 26th 2020 • 11:47:43 pm • 1KB
My Friends, Not only are we unable to directly conjure up the greatest of our heights, in that they must ensue from our Greatness & Pursuits. But also, we can't see that which we will miss. A mistake hidden within the heartbreaking realm of never knowing...
#211: On Writing That Fifth Book
Saturday • July 25th 2020 • 11:21:05 pm • 3KB
I know all too well that writing books is hard, as far as I can tell; I am still learning English. But books, share principles, with life, be it book or life, it is always page after page, it has chapters. Books are not, some fancy extra, but a pretty...