Too much on my mind today. What do I *not* want to do? …I really don’t want to stop in the middle of everything that’s going on, and go out to work out– So, right, burly QM session it is then.
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Day 42/100 – “101” →
Andrew Foster: Global Journey, Losing Everything, and Finding Purpose →
What does it take to transform personal struggles and passions into a thriving community that fosters movement, connection, and belonging?
Andrew Foster shares his fascinating journey from his home-schooled beginnings in Ohio, Arabic studies, and living in Jordan, (including meeting and training with Danny Ilabaca in Cairo) to facing the dark challenge of losing everything- including his purpose in life. Starting renewed from his lowest point, on a mountaintop in Colorado, he describes finding new purpose and direction, bringing him full circle to his home town in Ohio.
We come from dust, and we return to dust. We don’t have anything except what we’re given.
~ Andrew Foster (16:09)
Andrew Foster recounts his life journey, beginning with a childhood filled with classical music, philosophy, and a homeschooling environment that prioritized learning over grades. He describes his forays into sports like swimming and soccer, where he embraced the challenges of being an underdog. His passion for movement led him to Parkour, despite initial parental opposition, and to formative experiences abroad in the Middle East, where he studied Arabic and connected with Parkour communities.
A pivotal moment came when Andrew faced personal and professional loss, culminating in a cathartic experience atop a Colorado mountain. This epiphany shifted his perspective on life, motivating him to embrace gratitude, faith, and a commitment to community. Returning to Ohio, he founded Akron Movement Family, a Parkour gym centered on movement, love, and family, with the goal of creating a supportive, inclusive space for individuals to thrive physically and emotionally.
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Day 41/100 – trail run →
Instead of our normal route, we ran up to the boulders and back down. A fun change of trail!
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Day 40/100 – sunday class →
then spent the evening washing windows and playing at the… oh wait, that’s not public yet.
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One heel nailed in →
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
~ Lao Tzu
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Day 39/100 – yardwork →
There are only so many hours in the day, right? If I didn’t constantly plan, I’d never get anywhere. Did a million things today, work on the computer, reading, daily stretching and sitting (hip ROM work as I do various things while sitting on the floor), and as the afternoon fades… yardwork must be done. Maybe some pushups later. Maybe.
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Bonus, crazy awesome rainbow and sunset as i walked home from my workout! →
Bonus, crazy awesome rainbow and sunset as i walked home from my workout!
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Day 38/100 – walk, then qm →
Strange, there were two people here with string-paddles playing some strange game involving very little movement; and they only used their feet to move– they seemed very odd to me. So I went over on the side I don’t normally use, but I couldn’t stop staring at them.
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Empathy Is a Clock That Ticks in the Consciousness of Another →
Yet whatever one calls it, we share a rough idea of what’s meant: a lasting sense of one’s self moving in a sea of selves, dependent yet alone; a sense, or perhaps a deep and common wish, that I somehow belongs to we, and that this we belongs to something even larger and less comprehensible; and the recurring thought, so easy to brush aside in the daily effort to cross the street safely and get through one’s to-do list, much less to confront the world’s true crises, that my time, our time, matters precisely because it ends.
~ Alan Burdick from, Empathy Is a Clock That Ticks in the Consciousness of Another: The Science of How Our Social Interactions Shape Our Experience of Time – The Marginalian
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Day 37/100 – Great Scotts! →
push push push pant pant push push push 16,802 days young, still mowing
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