On my long run on Saturday I snapped these couple of photos: The first is from the top of Mount Baldy, looking east towards the mountains known as The Sisters. The second is the looming tower at the corner on the new Hayward Field track & field venue in town. The outer material of this is metal and the images are created by holes in the metal. The runner who made Eugene famous, Steve Prefontaine, is the image seen here.
The bulletin board on the wall opposite my computer that I look at daily.
What to Remember When Waking by David Whyte In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake,coming back to this life from the othermore secret, moveable and frighteningly honest worldwhere everything began,there is a small opening into the new daywhich closes the moment you begin your plans. What you can plan is too small for you to live.What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enoughfor the vitality hidden in your sleep. To be human is to become visiblewhile carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.To remember the other world in this worldis to live in your true inheritance. You are not a troubled guest on this earth,you are not an accident amidst other accidentsyou were invited from another and greater…
Everything Doesn’t Happen For A Reason- Tim Lawrence – Shrinkrap – Psychology Blog: Grief is brutally painful. Grief does not only occur when someone dies. When relationships fall apart, you grieve. When opportunities are shattered, you grieve. When dreams die, you grieve. When illnesses wreck you, you grieve. So I’m going to repeat a few words I’ve uttered countless times; words so powerful and honest they tear at the hubris of every jackass who participates in the debasing of the grieving: Some things in life cannot be fixed. They can only be carried. This post – a bit older (2015) – really struck a note with me. Just thought I’d post it here, for all reasons and no reasons. Read the whole thing –…