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About Slowing the Fall
Apr. 18th, 2013 10:07 amIt's not as much fun, the walking and the exercise, when you know that its fundamental purpose is to put off the inevitable. When what is being done no longer has the feel of some exuberant, Hail Mary pass toward a still possible, though yet unreached, potential.
Instead, it's about slowing the fall, not just from that illusory state of grace imagined by the young, but from that static yet viable line which some of us have managed to plot through middle age. And even, in some cases, beyond.
So that now, as we plod between the lines of an oval track, surely intended for much swifter feet and less-grim purpose, we hear that apocalyptic horseman's wheeze and comfort ourselves with the unlikely notion that what we hear is nothing more than our own labored breath...
LPK
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4.18.2013
Instead, it's about slowing the fall, not just from that illusory state of grace imagined by the young, but from that static yet viable line which some of us have managed to plot through middle age. And even, in some cases, beyond.
So that now, as we plod between the lines of an oval track, surely intended for much swifter feet and less-grim purpose, we hear that apocalyptic horseman's wheeze and comfort ourselves with the unlikely notion that what we hear is nothing more than our own labored breath...
LPK
LiveJournal
4.18.2013
