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Happy St. Swithin’s Day to everyone in the northern hemisphere temperate zone. I hope everyone has by now put their first crop of hay into the barn. Summer is half over, and winter is long.
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-Zenwind.
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15 July 2012
05 July 2012
Slow Going
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Brain fog, overheating computer, muggy weather, fatigue, and bodily aches and pains – it is hard to get much done these days. All my life I have alternated between meditative repose on the one hand versus big ambitions, high goals and intense action on the other. E.g., days of frantic climbing and then days spent lounging on a rock in the quiet forest. There has always been a rhythm to it, a natural timing of which mode is appropriate for me at certain moments. Listening to this rhythm (not trying to futilely fight against it) is the harmony of eudaimonia -- living according to and up to one’s “truest spirit” – mentioned by Aristotle as being “happiness”, the goal of the art of ethical endeavor.
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Recently I had set too high of a scholarly objective with too close a deadline (and I’m terrible at deadlines): I wanted to finish reading Batman and Philosophy (2008) and write a review of it before the next Christopher Nolan Batman movie comes out this month. Philosophy has always been so much work for me, and I can never push it. Philosophy is a labor of love for me, but I must accept that there must be a balance and that I must rest sometimes. This review was a new goal from scratch, not a posting of a previously drafted document. What I will do is read the book, annotating the margins, and wait until a future time to come back to it and start writing.
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I’ve been working out more regularly on our treadmill, and it will take time to get my strength built back up. (I had to stop lifting again because of back pain, so I’m working on my legs.) The trick to beating the boredom of treadmills is to have a TV/DVD system of some kind right in front of you. Also, have a good rig in place to have a book in front of you.
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The treadmill workouts are exhausting me, but the time lengths of sessions are increasing with more ease than before, and the heart-rate monitor shows that it now takes more and more exertion (in both speed and incline steepness) to reach my optimal training heart-rate. My heart is getting stronger – I just wish my brain would become clearer.
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My legs are sore today from long workouts. The stormy monsoon weather is making the barometer go up and down, making my spine ache. The computer is hot. Time to stop writing.
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-Zenwind.
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Brain fog, overheating computer, muggy weather, fatigue, and bodily aches and pains – it is hard to get much done these days. All my life I have alternated between meditative repose on the one hand versus big ambitions, high goals and intense action on the other. E.g., days of frantic climbing and then days spent lounging on a rock in the quiet forest. There has always been a rhythm to it, a natural timing of which mode is appropriate for me at certain moments. Listening to this rhythm (not trying to futilely fight against it) is the harmony of eudaimonia -- living according to and up to one’s “truest spirit” – mentioned by Aristotle as being “happiness”, the goal of the art of ethical endeavor.
.
Recently I had set too high of a scholarly objective with too close a deadline (and I’m terrible at deadlines): I wanted to finish reading Batman and Philosophy (2008) and write a review of it before the next Christopher Nolan Batman movie comes out this month. Philosophy has always been so much work for me, and I can never push it. Philosophy is a labor of love for me, but I must accept that there must be a balance and that I must rest sometimes. This review was a new goal from scratch, not a posting of a previously drafted document. What I will do is read the book, annotating the margins, and wait until a future time to come back to it and start writing.
.
I’ve been working out more regularly on our treadmill, and it will take time to get my strength built back up. (I had to stop lifting again because of back pain, so I’m working on my legs.) The trick to beating the boredom of treadmills is to have a TV/DVD system of some kind right in front of you. Also, have a good rig in place to have a book in front of you.
.
The treadmill workouts are exhausting me, but the time lengths of sessions are increasing with more ease than before, and the heart-rate monitor shows that it now takes more and more exertion (in both speed and incline steepness) to reach my optimal training heart-rate. My heart is getting stronger – I just wish my brain would become clearer.
.
My legs are sore today from long workouts. The stormy monsoon weather is making the barometer go up and down, making my spine ache. The computer is hot. Time to stop writing.
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-Zenwind.
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