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A great white-golden light
in the sat-feed from the west
the technological wonders of my home glowing bright.
The brighter white stars
of the uncluttered east over my head
as I glance up from the
gee-ar-gee on my
right wrist.
On my left a gee-pee-ess
the blue-force-tracker:
a corded bracelet…
new world and old
encompassed on my flesh
should I but face North.
I find some small solace
in the irony.
I find myself,
as if awoken from,
a dream of gilded,
lamps and golden mirrors.
There is steel found here,
this desert,
this sandstormed reality,
of space and time.
The gilded dream is,
programmed, conditioned –
all constructed,
for you.
Only my real ones smell of copper and
cordite; gunpowder and blood.
Awakened,
the colors are a mere shade,
of what I know they should be,
you see, that’s the way…
the way they conditioned,
me.
I want to sleep. I have a lot on my mind though.
I have not slept well often in the last several years. Post traumatic stress is a motherfucker on your subconscious.
I have special people to me, in my life, that suffer it’s awful effects. I wish that I were able to take all of their pain and make it my own so that they would no longer have to worry about the next minute, hour, day.
I know that I am strong, I don’t think that any of them are weak, it’s more that I know I was given broad shoulders and that I’d gladly carry their portion of the burden for them, even for just a little while.
Long enough for them to be able to reach deep and find a genuine smile. Some laughter amid the pain, hope rising from the ashes.
I wish I could.
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“The modern world is not necessarily a runner’s world. Many other physical variables affect our ability to stay healthy. We detrain our glutes and tighten our hamstrings sitting at our desks for hours, grow tight in the shoulders from stress and eat genetically modified foods with consequences we don’t yet fully understand. The variables are as different as the circumstances of our lives, with one thing in common: They all hamper the body’s ability to deal with the forces of running.”
-Philip Latter, April 2013 Issue Running Times
That pretty much sums it up, I have no problem quoting when someone else can say what I’m trying to say more eloquently than I can.
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I can honestly say that I don’t know if it was sweat or tears in my eyes for that last mile – but I hit both my goals and I feel absolutely exhausted/amazing.
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Running, again, finally.
Last year, I tore a muscle in my lower back. March fifth, to be exact. It’s taken over a year to rehab it back to running strength. It took several months before I could walk without pain, it still bothers me but not enough anymore to keep me from the runs I’ve missed so much.
Much worse than the hamstring I tore back in oh-six.
At any rate I’ve run a bit under forty miles in the last eight days. Longest run so far has been a seven-miler Friday night, I’m hoping to break that PR later this evening.
I’ve had to completely restructure my stride and I’m still learning how to use it to its fullest potential.
I started a new Nike+ account since I’m no longer the runner that put those old numbers up. All new PR’s to be made and broken:
Actually rather refreshing, I’ve got new all new mountains to climb.
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Insomnia.
When you have insomnia you’re never really asleep but you’re never really awake either.
I don’t sleep well, I never have. I don’t keep what one might call regular hours and I’ve learned to function productively on very little rest.
Sometimes, just sometimes, I can sleep for more than a few hours at a time.
I think that this post is going to be a bit more about the mundane parts of my life. I’ve got a headache and that’s not really conducive to exploring the things I generally like to discuss here.
I still feel compelled to write though, even when my thoughts are moving at the speed of cold sap. That’s actually weirdly encouraging.
My back hurts. I pulled a muscle in my lower back a week or so ago. Pretty much awful, I’ve never had back problems so rather naturally I was unprepared for just how limited your world becomes when you can’t tie your own shoes.
I’m stuck at the dividing line between the end of one novel and the beginning of the next. Foggy, gray area you have become my home.
My poor beaten up civic has been acting oddly all week, maybe it’s sympathy pangs, that car and I have been through a lot together. Side note on that: I have, since my first ride at sixteen, named my cars after early twentieth-century starlets.
Strange? Maybe.
That scene in the first matrix movie when Smith is having a bit of a breakdown interrogating Morpheus is close to the surface. I must escape this place and in this mind is a key, my key.
I am seriously going a little crazy since I can’t run. I need to run. It’s something that I don’t think I can really live without.
This annoying injury makes me feel old. I’m not a fan of that feeling in any way. I will say this though; still no gray. Not much leaves marks on me, yeah I’ve got some (fairly serious) scars but I’ve earned every single one of them.
I think that my blog has been far too serious and somewhat depressing for a while now. I hardly ever write down the things that make me happy, or any of those things that make me laugh. When there are days between posts you can be certain that I was smiling enough that I didn’t need to write through anything.
I think that I need to change that.
Here’s something. Sandwiches. I freakin love sandwiches. Probably my favorite food. I love bread, and cheese, do not get me started on cheese. Sandwiches have an endless variety in terms of fillers and condiments. One can never be bored with a sandwich if that sandwich has been properly made.
This is from a conversation I had today about cheese and sandwiches, it illustrates my views perfectly:
Cheese is the most important part of a sandwich – adding both flavor and texture and also getting another food group into your hand…that being said, I think it’s chief virtue is that it provides a stable platform for condiment deployment.
I tend take an engineers view on sandwich construction. Probably because my undergrad/grad roommate was an ME guy. And handy with a grill.
But I digress, I’m quite happy right now. I want to get back out of Ohio like no other, (why did I ever come back here again?) and I really really want to tie my shoes again but other than that life is quite good. I do like to explore some serious concepts here, but a large percentage of the time I’ve already worked through it by the time I finish a post. Sometimes I don’t even post them, unless it’s something I think might help someone else or provoke some discussion. I just delete them after I’m done because the act of writing it down solved whatever it was that I was dealing with and I no longer have a need to share it. For example there is a post sitting in my upload cue dated February twenty-eighth.
As for the concept I brought up in my last post, I’ll get to that after I’ve gotten some sleep. I will say this though, right at this exact moment my heart sleeps under a starlit sky, the beat of a desert night keeping its rhythm.
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I’m vastly enjoying the updated iPhone app for wordpress.
I can finally stop writing out the HTML tags, longhand as it were.
In other news it’s going to rain, and I’m going to run in it because running in the rain is all sorts of awesome.
I’m also quite amused that my phone is an order of magnitudes more powerful than my first computer ever was.
Life is wide open. Get some.
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I think this is going to be more of a disjointed general update, rather than a focused update.
Of sorts.
At any rate I’m healing, it’s been a mixture of good and bad news. The scarring has been minimal considering the seriousness of the injury.
That being said, the docs don’t know if I’ll ever regain full use of the right side of my upper lip. C’est la vie, I was too pretty anyway.
I haven’t been able to run, which is annoying since it’s one of my better outlets for dealing with emotions that I am unable to articulate with language.
I feel like a curious mixture of both hope and despair. That being said, I am in no way depressed, just reevaluating and speculating.
I have always found that my life nearly always gives me what I need, the reason for this escapes me but I’m sure it will become clear in time.
I am becoming more and more excited about moving. There are several choices on the table, all of them involve sun, sand and salt water. This makes me smile (well half a smile, it’s all I can currently manage).
There are things here in Ohio that I will certainly miss, but the lure of new adventures is simply too great to ignore. I enjoy starting new chapters, it’s a blank slate, there is purpose and direction, but the pages are waiting to be written and I find that filling those spaces with experiences is something I cannot live without.
Life here has become routine, stagnant; an unhappy medium, something I simply cannot let myself become comfortable with.
My life has always been about going big. I have always felt that you can create your own greatness, your own story can be whatever you want it to be. You just have to want it enough. I have always been a creature of passion, of extreme desire to succeed; on my own terms.
I will not become an old man, filled with regret.
There are still so many stories to be written, songs to be sung and adventures to be had. My ambition is to make sure I capture as many of them as I can.
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curro ergo sum 