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9月13日 jonahas jonah is 3 months old now he had a swim. he loved it. he is amazing and you can see photos of him in the photo album on this page.
i dont knowi dont know nick willis. i only mention this because so many i know, do. all i can say about him is that what pleased me most about his medal last month was that he got it running. what i mean is that clearly he is fast. his ability to speed up when most of us would be calling for an iv of tiger balm is godly. he is a runner. he has been, he is and he will be. i am so, so glad that he, therefore, had the chance to run.
think of michael phelps or lance armstrong with their weird bodies. what is it: three hearts, five lungs and and a toupe between them? not to mention muscles where the six squillion others of us dont even have body parts. but still, they got the opportunity to take part in their sport. its about fulfilled potential.
there are a lot of people on earth. i am one of them. i for one, also, have potential but make more excuses than india has bus crashes for not even beginning to see what i might be able to give back.
i love watching people do things well. almost regardless of what it is. thats why i play pool with my friends. although i get as flogged as a tehranian pickpocket, it honestly gives me pleasure to see the way they do it.
that old man i saw in kandy near colombo with a loincloth and half a dozen sheets of corrugated iron on his head as he dodged traffic, fauna and nosey tourists - i wonder what he might have been good at should he have been given a better chance. the loincloth wasn't on his head. that would be silly.
for these reasons i make sure ben has a chance to excel in whatever he wants. we sometimes take a bike AND a skateboard out to play in the early evening when, according to ben, the sun and the moon are here. jonah gets to lie on his back AND his front. (today he rolled for us for the first time).
as always i'm being incoherent and allowed my thoughts to be hijacked by another stroy of how crap it is to live in the third world. i want you (and i) to know that if you can do something, you should. just because you can. when i skate, i worship. in fact, i will continue to skate until i find something i am good at. |
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