Power comes from working at atleast  one level below that of the reality in front of us. 

Creativity, then, is misleading. A creative is just one who has more admin rights than you 

 i read matt might on gaining strength ( after reading matt might on weight loss), then i read sivers' summary on rippetoe  . But originally, I read some of Steve Maxwell's posts on this site, during a Singapore visit I'm sure ( or Kodai ? same as Jason Fung - something about these visits unlock a deep running current ...) and was impressed greatly by the combination of strength training, chi/prana, and minimalism as a way of life...

then i watched some baron videos on soviet training and diet 

now started doing dumbell bicep curls (5) whenever bored, or short on time and ideas for a workout...

yoga is the keystone habit and practice that makes all this possible, allowing for some level of strength and moving me beyond the man with body of clay  

after yoga, one is able to do some skipping in the morning. Usually in the mornings  (not mondays), the body is so stiff, that one needs a routine to un-stiff it. I wanted Shubananda's original starter 4 to fill this spot but too stiff. Now I do 3 sets of skipping -50,50,100, then wushu arm rotations, then if I remember, leg stretches, then Indian squats. These set the tone for the morning, and then dumbells become easily possible.

 what if you could indulge in your curiosity unlimited , day after day ?

Johnnie let's me visit Enter Sandman like I was 18(Johnnie W not mnemonic)  

I was listening to my 'van halen balance' playlist, for the rock/metal section, which i have almost never done ( i wonder why) ,  and i started playing metallica ...

it took me to the time when had one pair of good jeans, and one good white t-shirt with printed stuff on it,  when I had a passable cassette player, and had just graduated past boney M and beatles ....  rock and metal were a gateway to the magnificent magical vibe of electric guitars, speakers, and music that promised a world wrought entirely out of attitude and authentic strength. a world with music with rocks in it .... ,  far from the real world which put in boredom brick by brick, every minute every hour ..... 

I remember G with his stereo upstairs of S's house, with his cassette collection that I thought was literally heaven .... judas priest, stone temple pilots(core - the other album was experimental mmkay ?), anthrax .... Metallica was _just_ a gateway drug there ... Iron Maiden were posers with some good stuff ...

wherever I may roam ... we wrote this on soul paper deep within our minds, as we chewed through the days curriculum, roaming carefully amongst places we were allowed to roam ...

i wonder where this is all going, i wonder where my life strayed beyond repair ...

nowadays there's only talk of four bedrooms, and villas, and seven seaters .... 

as they said, sad but true.... 

guys, this guy https://www.youtube.com/@philosophyminis/shorts

 I am reading a book on zen

It told me all about being in the here and now , in chapter 1.

It did a good job. I haven't been able to get to chapter 2 ever since

 sunrise at noon

can we slip the surly bonds of the self 

and fly ?

through the jungle and mountains

past the seas

we've come seeking

the fire the light the glow

brothers all

will you meet me there ?

knowing fully well 

the you there 

will never meet the me there 

ever again

a moment

will it be enough ?

i buy car insurance

 scott peck - life is difficult. so all meaning and fulfilment falls on the other side of hard work

murakami - focus and endurance. 

michener - liberal arts, apply yourselves to large tasks of immense value and effort

a theme seems to be emerging

not to forget - cal newport - a heavy weight descending on your brain

and then there's matt might's hacking strength

  much soup. many spills. when food ?

sometimes we do too much preparation . over time, the blogs have reversed. ortrta was for conspiracy theories. it died. froogy has more conspiracy theories than any. goingkilo used to get populated when work was needed, ie, just after appraisals or between jobs. now lying fallow for ages . the original theme for froogy was phaedrus' - what is good, do we need anyone to tell us that ?Looks like we DO need somebody to tell us that.the stream runs shallow and bleeds into pools which keep drying up.

a suspension of the terror of daily life - a trip

destiny on hold, carbs welcome

not outrageous coffee, delicious flight sandwich, 

karma holiday, spend without looking 

free air,  rooms always tidy

then back again

 Sets, by virtue of their nature, give rise to sets that don't have their  ature

Categories do the same 

In the human sphere, a protocol essentially boils down to a list of  things to be kept in mind

And so each gives rise to cousin protocols and cou ter protocols

There is no end to this, the engine of variety,  similarity and variation driven in an endless dance of novelty on a bed of boring regularity,  

Todays novelty becomes  tomorrows regularity, as sets accumulate sets , and strive to gobble all, and plug the perennial leakage