Going Alone

A daily mountain to climb. I’ve expanded Objective number two “The Good Use of Time” of The Good Life creed to include the idea of one...

I’ve stopped daydreaming. It’s the strangest thing. I’ve also stopped planning, largely. And that’s strange too. I feel like a man in a...

As I age, especially these last few years closing in on sixty, I perceive an interesting gap widening between my body and my mind. It’s a...

Yumiko is moving faster than me into her new life. She’s found what she plans to do and who she wishes to be and has decided how she will...

My days have begun to slow on their own. As I’d aged from my twenties through my fifties it seemed life slowly sped up. But now, things...

I’ve begun to stop waiting for retirement. What this means is that I’ve begun enacting my new way of life now, while still enmeshed in my...

The ocean has grown cold. Very cold. Cold like winter. It burns my head when I first get in. And it’s painful and a struggle to swim...

The ocean here has turned a corner of sorts, wrapping itself into summer in earnest, giving up its caprice, and the seeming will and...

One more day of work before vacation. I think the teams have everything under control. I noticed positive Teams chatter after I’d logged...

The tide is very low tonight... I feel like I’m running over and across the bottom of the sea. Miles glide by like sailing. #GoingAlone...

The storms have passed and our winter beach has returned to it’s familiar attitude and ways. It’s good to run again down and into the ...

First swim of the year. Incredible winds. But nevermind. Cold water. Nevermind. Pain in my joints, damn arthritis. Nevermind. Age ...

No swim yesterday, had to work instead. I Certainly missed it. Maybe I’ll swim twice tomorrow to make up. Retirement has been on my mind...

Warm skin. This winter sun speaks today of September and April. ”Stay for a while” it seems to say. Enjoy a few minutes with the waning...

I missed doing this yesterday. Work kept me late. I actually left the house after dark to go for a swim anyway, Yumiko commenting “you...