Obligation

Published January 31, 2017  ·  All posts on Jan 31  ·  

We’re born alone. We do need each other. It’s lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that’s part of your obligation.

~ Bill Murray

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Hand-made Vanilla extract

Published January 29, 2017  ·  All posts on Jan 29  ·  

Experimenting with coconut flour pancakes this morning. Second batch, “shall we add some vanilla?” …you mean the vanilla extracted using BOURBON which our brother-in-law makes by hand. OMG. YES. PLEASE. @geometress is a keeper!!

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Community

Published January 22, 2017  ·  All posts on Jan 22  ·  

This is the sort of thing that turns a ‘gym’ into the center of a community. Quick! …go get a laminated map and straight pins. Bonus points for color coding pin heads. @ppkphilly

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Half-hearted, lazy effort

Published January 17, 2017  ·  All posts on Jan 17  ·  

As we get older, failure is not so inconsequential anymore. What’s at stake is not some arbitrary grade or intramural sports trophy, but the quality of your life and your abiity to deal with the world around you.

Don’t let that intimidate you, though. You have the best teachers in the world: the wisest philosophers who ever lived. And not only are you capable, the professor is asking for something very simple: just begin the work. The rest follows.

~ Ryan Holiday, from The Daily Stoic

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Confused I may be

Published January 16, 2017  ·  All posts on Jan 16  ·  

Training with the French in Jersey… New Jersey that is, Princeton. PPK gym number two for me w @pinnacleparkour @teddybearparkour

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The Myth of Sisyphus

Published January 13, 2017  ·  All posts on Jan 13  ·  

But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

~ Albert Camus

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Why we walk on our heels instead of our toes

Published January 11, 2017  ·  All posts on Jan 11  ·  

Humans are very efficient walkers, and a key component of being an efficient walker in all kind of mammals is having long legs,” Webber said. “Cats and dogs are up on the balls of their feet, with their heel elevated up in the air, so they’ve adapted to have a longer leg, but humans have done something different. We’ve dropped our heels down on the ground, which physically makes our legs shorter than they could be if were up on our toes, and this was a conundrum to us (scientists).

~ From Why we walk on our heels instead of our toes

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Turns out heel-to-toe rolling gives longer *effective* leg length. Our lower legs are exquisite.

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Thanks Texas!

Published January 10, 2017  ·  All posts on Jan 10  ·  

I got only the tiniest glimpse of Texas, but had a terrif time! Thanks to my hosts, #texaswinterjam9, and all my friends new and old! …also beat Andy to IAH by a mile :P

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