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What we learn in the sandbox (opens the original)
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I’ve had two experiences in the last month that were wildly different, and yet I’m going to force blend them together in this newsletter.The first was a moment in a nearby playground with my toddler grandson. He was mucking about in the sandbox—mostly lifting and carrying around for not discernible purpose wheeled objects about half his size [kid is strong]—and I wanted to stay close by to interact. I went to crouch down. And I couldn’t. I just couldn’t. The very knees that have carried me up an
The Joy of Slowness (opens the original)
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The summer after my sophomore year in college, I had a very long reading list of British literature I was advised to get through before beginning my junior year abroad at Oxford. As I was matriculating as a student in the first year of the three-year English degree, I would be spending my junior year reading essentially all of what was then (and surely still now, as Oxford doesn’t change much) the English canon, specifically in the 19th and early-20th centuries. We would be tested on all of this
Zagori means behind the mountain (opens the original)
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I’ve had the good fortune to finish a handful of (road) marathons, so I’ve experienced first-hand the thrill or crossing a finish line in a famous place. Central Park, Boylston Street, Liberty Hall (when a long-ago Philly marathon route finished there), and none other than the all-marble Panhellenic Stadium at the end of the Athens marathon. But no finish line is better, more triumphant, more joyous, more touching, than the one that belongs to the Zagori Mountain Running races of all lengths.Str
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