inspiration

That's what I love -- just being a barbarian, running through the woods.

- Born to Run, p149, "Jenn" speaking.

It sounds like she gets some of her inspiration from the same place as me.

As I pressed my kettlebell today, I thought of some friends of mine -- all of them, in fact, to whom i have proselytized the bells -- who scoffed at the high cost of the ugly hunks of iron, and consequently, do no weight bearing exercises at all.

i admit that it's silly to pay $200 for 24 pounds of cast iron, but once i did, the rewards i got were worth more than $200. I am fortunate to have the resources and the attitude to make possible such purchases, and the proper mental tuning to let such purchases not go to waste.

yesterday i found my barbarian self in san francisco, thinking no more and no less than the holy words: civilization - ancient and wicked.

we made it safely back to uncivilization where i could happily resume my own particular idiom, unappreciated as it remains.