one hundred push ups
So starting this week I’m participating in the 100 Push Up Challenge. We’ll see how I fare but it’ll be nice to start back up on some sort of regular exercise, even if it is just push ups.
You live only once, and that once is NOW. All your energies, all your qualities, all your faculties, are centered upon the present moment. It is the vital point, the single hot and living tip through which you can burn your whole life record of constructive activity into the stubborn fabric of Mankind. The Past is gone, you
cannot alter it; the Future is to come, you cannot touch it. But the Present is HERE, and you can score strong and deep in it.Except in mortal existence there is no Past and Future. Divisions of Time vanish outside of limited and divided Minds. Eternity knows no such division; it includes both Past and Future and is itself simply an eternal and ever present NOW. But the human Mind, inside the self-erected mental walls which made it human, cannot comprehend Eternity and has enslaved itself to the very limitations
which it fashioned. It possesses only the moment to tie to its lost heritage, and only through the proper appreciation and use of that moment can it win back something of what it has lost.
— Baron Eugene Fersen
He who conforms to the course of the Tao, following the natural processes of Heaven and Earth, finds it easy to manage the whole world.
— Huai Nan Tzu
Philadelphia
So I just landed in Philadelphia today where I will be spending the weekend as my buddy’s best man at his wedding. I’m still nervous about a toast but as the day has gone on I’ve started to feel a bit more comfortable about my position and with it, my confidence in myself to write a proper toast, or at least one that isn’t half-bad.
I took the opportunity this evening to take said groom-to-be out to a bar and after 3 pints of Guinness managed to get a good chunk of emotions and reasoning out of him explaining his personal take on this wedding and on discovering “the one” that will make great ammunition for a toast. Off to jot down some quick ideas and get some sleep as I adjust myself to east coast time.
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