Category: adventures
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A Walk In The Park
A beautiful, misty morning in Central Park. Walking around the Great Lawn with my Zoey, one woman commented to me “that’s some stroller.” I replied “it’s some passenger”. Walked around for 90 minutes or so, the park was filled with people out for early morning walks. Zoey was the only child. Everyone else was out […]
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The Body Will Never Agree To Die
It’s a biological imperative to continue to live, to desire to live. At the most root level, the purpose of life IS, simply, to live. Our bodies are created with the core purpose of: “stay alive, avoid death.” And for this reason, the end of life is so mind bending. Because suddenly, for someone like […]
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You Are More Than Just Your Body
What is the body? The body is our vehicle for this life, it’s the ship we sail through our experiences. It’s what we feel everything through; it’s what carries us. It’s what causes us pain when the journey comes to an end. That’s the one caveat about this beautiful life. We get to use these […]
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The Sun Invaded My Dream
This morning I woke up out of a dream in which I was running around a lake. During that run, the sun was beating down really hot into my eyes. The sun became so hot and aggravating on my eyes that it became the purpose of the dream, it became what I was focusing on, […]
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Fall In Love And Call Me In The Morning
Love is crucial; we need it just like we need food, air, sleep, and health. Why didn’t John Lennon sing about how all we need is air? Or food? Because, unlike other things that we need in order to survive, love is something that people sometimes choose to not have. Love keeps your body healthy, […]
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The Physics of Dreams
Dreams actually can be amazing adventures. When you’re fortunate enough to realize you’re dreaming while you’re dreaming, the world is as simple as an oyster that’s yours. And if you don’t like oysters, well, you can fly. You can jump really high. You can melt concrete. You can eat wood. You can swim in a […]
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Music Too Big For An iPod
Music is passed around from ipod to ipod, the songs consumed at a rapid, rabid rate, yet there is no way to truly reproduce the experience of attending an orchestral performance. In this situation, it’s not about the notes, the rhythm, the melody, or even the conductor’s motions. It’s about the physical feeling of sound […]
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When Adventure Becomes Home
There is no feeling like the exuberance of being in a new, exciting, inspiring place. The closest thing to it is the feeling of returning to that place a second time; an element of familiarity but still in exploration mode. The third time brings a wave of gratitude for the chance to be here in […]
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I Stretch
Do you stretch? I stretch my muscles in the morning, before a workout, whenever I can without looking too weird in public. I stretch my conditioning, slowly expanding the distances I can run at a resting heart rate. I stretch my balance, on the NYC subway, first by having mastered standing up without holding on […]
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The Real Quality Of Air
You know when you’re upset or angry or stressed, they always tell you to “take a deep breath”? Well, I wonder what role the quality of the air plays in that situation. Air quality is an easy thing to think of in terms of health. How polluted is the air… will it cause emphysema or […]