Active recovery day. Oof, pebble wrestling always pays off. Tomorrow: A loop of our usual trail run.
32 — Walking →
August 06, 2023 — #44 →
Reading time: About 5 minutes, 1100 words
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Graphic →
I’ve been stumbling more over graphic depictions and graphic novels. There’s this fun book Out on the Wire by Jessica Abel which describes the storytelling secrets of the new masters of radio. I’ve read another graphic novel about finance and the visual element really brings the stories to life. (See Craig learn, sorry.) In hindsight, I don’t understand at all why this would have surprised me. I spent gobs of time reading comics like Calvin and Hobbes and Bloom County in book form and they’re graphic novels if you read the entire arc in one go.
Our thoughts are a composite process. We really do think with our entire bodies.
~ Alex Pavlotski from, Habit Change and the Embodied Mind | alexpavlotski
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Pavlotski is another example. I had a wonderful conversation, Ethnography, leadership, and trajectory, with him for the Movers Mindset podcast. He is probably best-known for his work visualizing Parkour, but there’s much more to his work than just the drawing portion. This is not just a guy who does parkour, who also happens to draw kewl cartoons.
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Perspective →
Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
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33 — Bouldering →
Fun little session with just enough pebble wrestling to get a good workout. Tomorrow’s activity will be walking.
Truth →
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
~ George Orwell
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34 — Jump-rope and rail balance →
Circuits of jump-rope and rail balance, two wonderfully antagonistic activities; get all wound up jumping, then try to be calm and balance. Repeat. Tomorrow: We’re heading up to the local rocks to do a little bouldering.
You had me at trees →
Trees often have my attention. I find myself thinking about the spot where a tree is standing. Whether its seed fell there, or someone planted it, that spot is it. The tree is simply going to stand there as the sun whips across the sky thousands of times. I imagine the tree turning its leaves quickly (in tree time) to catch what light it can during each flash overhead.
Intrigued by this unheard of species, Wang set out to see it for himself and to collect specimens, which he shared with colleagues. One of them was Hsen Hsu Hu. A diligent paleobotanist, he had read of Miki’s fossil discovery five years earlier. As soon as he saw the peculiar needle pattern, Hu recognized the “water fir” as a Metasequoia.
~ Maria Popova from, The Remarkable Story of the Dawn Redwood: How a Living Fossil Brought Humanity Together in the Middle of a World War – The Marginalian
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There’s a lot of interesting leaps in the story Popova shares. Across a war, across two cultures, but the vast time this tree has crossed is insane. We have fossils of this tree… and we still have the live tree. My mind boggles.
But mostly, Popova had my attention at trees.
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Ignorance →
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.
~ Isaac Asimov
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35 — Trail run →
Glorious cool weather at the moment. Fitbit thinks our pace was a whole minute faster; not sure about that, but it did feel faster. Tomorrow: circuits of jump rope and rail balance.