Welles Crowther, a 24-year-old equities trader widely known as the “Man in the Red Bandana,” carrying an injured person to safety during the September 11 attacks in 2001….. Welles Crowther was a 24-year-old equities trader working on the 104th floor of the South Tower on September 11, 2001. After Flight 175 struck, he covered his […]
. . The little bird is not a mammal. I know how mammals work. That makes sense. I am a mammal. I don’t know all mammals. I think veterinarians are amazing. Doctors for humans learn about one mammal. Veterinarians? Must learn about EVERY mammal! And, also, animals who are not mammals. (That is just crazy talk, […]
I have been looking at different non-fighting (internal) martial arts forms. I find this quite beautiful. It throws me a little because there are some kicks in there I am wondering about. But. Beautiful.
. I first met qi in martial arts study in Los Angeles. I had an unusual instructor. He didn’t teach one art. He taught a sort of combination of fighting arts. And he threw me into classes with black belt students when I was brand new. And I sort of wondered what those other students […]
Me: Dear Chinese Medicine, what is wrong with me? Chinese Medicine: It’s your spleen, Babe. Me: What do I do to fix the spleen? Chinese Medicine: Avoid ice-cold drinks, salads, raw vegetables, and fruits (like watermelon) in excess, also minimize dairy, processed sugar, and greasy/fried foods. Me (sipping iced coffee laced with milk while eyeing […]
It’s raining tonight in San Antonio. I love the sound. It’s a light rain, gentle. And the smell is nice. Something soft and gentle and difficult to define. San Antonio is a city filled with plants. You don’t really smell the plants. But you also don’t smell hard concrete the way you do in some […]
Okay, sort of not frenzy. Sort of ongoing forever into eternity task at a not so fast paced rate. Wow that is a boring opening though. Let’s change it back. FRENZY! Seemaxrun has posts going back years, (decades!, technically), but it grew up on different platforms. And each platform worked a different way. And while […]
I am putting makeup on on Sunday. Why am I putting makeup on on Sunday? Am I going to mass? No. A wedding? No. Dancing? No. A Zoom meeting? No. Some unexpected Sunday evening social event? NO. I am preparing for a 9 PM fire alarm. Friday night, the building fire alarm went off a […]
The swallows are fighting. They are aerial fighters. They streak through air side by side and body slam each other mid flight into walls. There are harsh thumps when a body slammed swallow hits a wall. They are not kidding around. They are seriously trying to hurt each other. No one has hit the ground […]
Age is not a state of mind. Age is science. Your face replaces every single cell every 28 days. Every single cell is new. The one part of the body that takes the longest to replace? Is the skeleton. The skeleton takes 12 years to fully replace. But you are growing a new body every […]