HVs

hidden variables that can't be accounted for or unknown.

"dumbass 50k"

"honey, I finished first. I came in before everyone by an entire week."

that's what you call the 50k when you show-up a week early

laughing

but he had a great time anyway creating his own 50k
knows the course a bit better
and looking forward to next weekend with his friends.

Stanely

We met Stanley at the Bellarmine...retired psychologist most probably somewhere in his 70s. Enjoys HS games and follows the teams in the Bay Area. We somehow got on history and found out he has a relative who ran with Billy the Kid...he asked about colleges and said we would never know his--but Williams is more than familiar to me...we talked about Valley Forge and then more on Virginia, the confederacy and Civil War history...landing on a Watergate figure and reverend in a Lexington church. Turns out in his family lineage is the name Lyons as well. The game started and then ended. We said our good-byes.

I love the Stanleys in the world. He's our type of person. Vibrant, alive, genuine, true. There are no real 'good-byes' for the Stanleys, just a constant 'hello'. That is how the Stanleys live their lives--in living those moments with others--"passing time" a foreign idea.

The Bells lost...but Steve and I won a story for a lifetime. Royce and Marilyn, the photographer at Ruaidhri's wedding, Nova on the train to Bergen, Gotham in India, the ice cream guy from Turkey in Stuttgart, Mabel the artist in Singapore and others...a few hours spent with another but carried with you for a lifetime.

Happy February 19th

happy, happy!

for our 20th...

nyc at a minimum...

space as a maximum...

(nix that, steve said I can't go to space with anyone else)

sub-orbital as a max...

there's a whole lot to see, do, be inbetween!

you pick.

it's on me.

tinkered with

affected by effects.

smiling just the same.

grey matter matters

and silly wiring games.

"psychological ownership"

that's the struggle...the fight.

same theme as wanting to "bounce your ball"

difference being

you first have to resonate to see from the others perspective

else the interpretation, premised incorrectly, is just a fallacy

a story

a myth

....

and if that myth isnt corrected

then every step is not a step forward

but a step deeper into that which is not.