Early this afternoon—at about 12:15pm—I had an experience that I’ll never have again in my entire life. I embraced it calmly, perhaps unable to react because it didn’t seem real. Truthfully, as I write this about an hour later, it still hasn’t sunk in. I’m guessing later on it will—the realization growing as the day […]
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There is a game I like to play in my head. Its something I do to battle exhaustion at times when it really matters—when I’ve got to keep going just a little bit longer. Mostly I play when I’m running. I’ll have put in four grueling miles, sometimes more, and I know I’m a mile […]
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Well, this is a first. I’m getting my Tuesday process post in just under the wire tonight. My work schedule changed this week on account of an annual facility maintenance shutdown, and I’m enjoying my afternoons and evenings at home. My writing schedule is shot to hell though. I don’t mind. I said before Thanksgiving this […]
Continue readingI seriously considered letting today pass without one of my usual Tuesday posts about the process. Truthfully I don’t have a lot to write about at the moment. I haven’t read any more inspiring books and I’m not struggling with how to convey this or that idea. In fact, I’m not struggling at all, and thats […]
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Ten days after my twenty-fifth birthday—Thursday, July 18, 2009—I woke up early and headed to work as usual. I expected it to be just another day in a string of extremely long summer days—I run the aquatics portion of our summer camp and typically my days are thirteen hours long at this time of year. […]
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