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Jul
12
Lessons from Death: Fishing, Hawks, and Three-legged Water Skeeters
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My wife took this picture from our car window while we were in Yellowstone National Park yesterday. It pretty much sums up the exposure to death my kids have experienced so far on this trip. Between the hawk, and my son catching and cleaning his first fish, to the premeditated murder and or dismemberment of [...]
Jul
10
A Murderous Mentality
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The mosquitoes in Island Park are fierce. If there was a a mosquito gang, they would rule the world. They’re probably the only thing I can kill with little remorse. You take my blood, I smash the shit out of you, that’s pretty much my mind set when it comes to mosquitoes. I think it’s [...]
Jul
8
“One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton. Whoa man, that’s pretty deep,”…the self is more distant than any star.” How true that seems, because I’ve been with myself for over forty years and I still don’t understand why I do the things [...]
Jul
6
Movement (Only the fool will push and pull: Day 134)
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I’ve been studying a little–some physics, some new-school jiu-jitsu and I’ve been impressed with the ideas about pushing and pulling and how they affect our movement in jiu-jitsu. For the most part, we shouldn’t do either. Pushing over extends us and compromises our balance; it makes our arms vulnerable to attacks and if we’re on [...]
Jul
2
Tiger Nest Monestary I’ve been thinking about the word travel all day and it made me think of all the places I haven’t been. So today I’m going to compose a list of the top ten places I want to go before I die. In no particular order: Brazil (Rio to visit Gracie Humaita), Cambodia [...]
Jul
1
Drifting through life, in my opinion, isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Being carried on a current is okay, it’s just the aimless part that’s a problem for me. It seems like being on a path is important. There’s a lot of talk about paths or roads and how important it is to be on one–and [...]
Jun
30
I’ve always appreciated those things that could (and do) adapt, the racoon, the rat, and the roach are the kings of adapting. Those things that cannot adapt will perish: the polar bear, the tiger, and the mountain gorilla are on the verge of extinction, mostly due to man, but regardless of the reason they cannot [...]
Jun
28
Why is it so hard to change–creatures of habit and all that, I guess. I’ve been a fat dude for a long time. Sometimes the number is high and sometimes it’s lower, but my average weight is fat. It’s taken me a long time to get used to that, but that’s a part of me. [...]
Jun
27
. . . I spend a lot of time writing and thinking about attaining a state of flow in my own jiu-jitsu, and then I realized that part of my personal style of jiu-jitsu is to stop my opponent’s flow. I try to either lock it or block it. Flow for me has to do [...]
Jun
26
The dawn represents, or is a symbol for the beginning, “the dawn of a new day,” and all that crap. But even though I have disdain for overly sunny dispositions, beginnings are important, they allow us to focus and dream and imagine a change. That’s why new year resolutuions are so popular, they mark the [...]
