Archive For June 28, 2023
Name one development in the history of humankind that has increased happiness more than the domestication of dogs. – Aaron Easterly Thursdays, the dog and I drive to town. We order two beers, one for each of us. Damn dog simply can’t handle alcohol and starts to talk. With an accent I’m unable to place. Doga…
This throwback merits a brief explanation. Some decades ago, I sensed a crisis of mid-life. Due to exigent – learned a new word today – circumstances, suddenly realized when I finally hit terra firma after many, many months of, umm, let’s call it ‘time-out’, I had stopped running. Stopped. Just like that. Slept for ten…
I saw this Jeff Johnson photo of Dan Dillon crossing the finish line and I had to ask, why the smile? By Dan Dillon I remember this race so well. To mix clichés, there were moments I felt like a fish out of water and in over my head at the same time. By the…
My recent Boston Marathon adventure got me thinking of another trip, hitherto unreported. But, oh, look, The Statue Of Inhibitions has expired. It was the Fall of 2014. A more innocent time. I was much younger. And I kept notes. Back home two days, throat scratchy after many hours of public transport.Still processing the idea…
“The faster you’d go, of course, the more you get to see.“ OGORs is about an attitude as much as anything. Dan Dillon had that. He was every bit as graceful as Zatopek, some say. I think he was marvelously expressive, pushing with every fiber of his being. In his defense, when he raced cross-country,…
Wamble (verb): to twist and turn; to wriggle; to roll over. To wobble, to totter, to waver; to walk with an unsteady gait. To move unsteadily. Not all who wamble are lost. We are rolling top-speed along the Currier & Ives Scenic By-Way. Frankly, this adventure was something of a fantasy come true. Or as…
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. – Albert Camus The old man finished cleaning his AR-15. Extra magazines, thirty cartridges each. A bump stock. Still legal. Wanted to wear a couple of bandoleros crisscrossing his chest, but thought…