Category Archives: Sport

30-Wand

Contemplation

“Stay back there now!” he croaked. “Just keep your distance, sport. I’ve got nothing you’re after – unless it’s the cheese, and you can have that. If it’s meat you want, I’m nothing but gristle, but I’ll fight to keep it. Back now! back!”

“I’m not a sport, good simpleton,” said Brother Francis, using the polite address. He tossed back his hood to show his monastic haircut and held up his rosary beads. “Do you understand these?”

After a brief scrutiny, the pilgrim straightened. “Oh – one of them.” He leaned on his staff and scowled.

– A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)

03-Move

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Boost

For human beings, motion is life. Our bodies are made to move. By exercising modestly on a regular basis, we can change the rate of our aging on a biochemical level. Regular exercise also improves mood, boosts energy levels, and builds self-confidence.
Art & Science of Aging Well by Mark E. Williams, M.D.

16-Dent

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Gaskin

The gaskin is the part of the horse between the stifle and the hock.

So, now you know.

Update April 16, 2023: Things are looking up because the Lidocaine Patch relieved my back muscle pain from the bicycle accident of April 3rd , 2023, enough to allow me to finally get a good night’s sleep.

And life is beautiful, because nature can be beautiful no matter the fearsome forces at play.

12-Loop

Gaming Cores

Fruit & Mushrooms – Own Rewards

“Tell me, Master, what is the best move in the world?”

There simply is no such thing as the best or even a good move apart from a particular situation in a game and the particular personality of one’s opponent.

The same holds for human existence. One should not search for an abstract meaning of life. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment.

Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.

Man’s Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl

07-Pawn

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You’ll find that most paintings of players playing chess have a cat somewhere in the scene. This one has a wooden lion and a spider.

31-Sura

Football

Life is so unfair. He wasn’t on the offense; his job was defense, not to catch the ball. But, he was playing the game. And what difference would possession make?

So the missed catch split his life, a mortal caesura so to speak, his life before and after the unexpected happening.

25-Wing

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Aviation

Flying machines epitomize the realization of a 3-D experience of the world.

**Edel Space 27** over Pacifica – Photo by Leon

Piloting a paraglider around the turn of the millennium. That’s M with outstretched arms.

Now my wing is in the garage, ready for the museum. It’s still flight worthy, and it could still break my neck.

MXI

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