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Flying Over I-40 N. With Fitbit Step Challenge.
3:45 a.m. Alarm. Whoa. Laying flat on my back in darkness. Where am I? Not in my house. Not in my bed. Not on my pillows. Get a grip.
3:50 a.m. Grab iPhone. Check my position in the Fitbit Work-Week Step Challenge. On top at bedtime, slipping to 6,250 steps behind overnight. Irritating. Damn it.
4:45 a.m. Arrive at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. Check in. TSA line. Security check. All uneventful. Check boarding pass: Gate C-14. Boarding, 6:15 a.m.
5:05 a.m. I walk. I step. American Airlines Admirals Club 100 feet ahead…soft seats, coffee, a Continental breakfast and 20 minutes of shut-eye. Stupid Challenge. Getting dragged into this stupid step contest by Rachel (daughter) a month ago, and I just can’t seem to Release. Three millennials and me, the Middle Aged Man who’s forgotten that he’s lost most of it. Release, Dummy. Eject. Three of the most difficult words for an Addict: Just let it go. I pass the Admirals Club, stepping heavily down the concourse, dragging my bloody luggage, wheels turning and with every fifth turn an irritating squeal. Gotta get my steps in.
In Week 1 (Oct 23-27), I fell behind the three young ladies, way behind – a whopping 42,228 steps behind on the final day – @ 2,000 steps per mile, do the Math. At 11:50 pm on Friday night, 10 minutes before the expiry of the last day of Week 1, I took my 42,228th step of the day to become the Week 1 Winner of the Fitbit Workweek Challenge – leaving the Millennials in silence, and me on the couch the entire weekend. But the message was sent, don’t be messing with Goomba, the Step-King.
(As to Week 2 and 3, we’re not talking about that. Let’s move on to Week 4.) Continue reading “Flying Over I-40 N. With Fitbit Step Challenge.”
Lightly Child, Lightly.
A very sweet light is spreading over the Earth like a perfume. The moon is slowly dissolving and a boy-sun languidly stretches his translucent arms…Cool murmurings of pure waters that surrender themselves to the hillsides. A pair of wings dances in the rosy atmosphere.
Silence, my friends.
The day is about to begin.
– Clarice Lispector, “Fever Dream” from The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
Notes:
- Photo:Unfathomable Depths by Ibai Acevedo (via see more)
- Prior “Lightly child, lightly” Posts? Connect here.
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
Canvas once touched by the fingers of both Giorgione and Titian
We stand before a canvas once touched by the fingers of both Giorgione and Titian.
I know that restorers’ fingers may long since have erased all traces of the two masters’ palms,
still it’s difficult not to be moved.
~ Adam Zagajewski, Slight Exaggeration: An Essay
Notes:
- Painting 1 (‘La Vecchia / The Old /Woman’, c.1506) by Giorgione (1478-1510), an Italian painter of the Venetian school in the High Renaissance from Venice.
- Painting 2 (The Entombment, 1559) by Titian (1488-1576) an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.
- Related Posts: Adam Zagajewski
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
Notes:
- Photo via Simplicity
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again