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Did the indoor bit - a little of it; 5 min worth. A Start/re-start. Present job needs fitness. And talking about the difficulty of keeping up this or that aspect helps. Helps me anyway. Rekindles personal interest/ activity level

cycles

cycles

and to water
which levels
in a trench
to freeze;
fixes the earth
disintegrating edges
deeper to the core…

only to thaw
with time
becoming water
until next winter
when ice crystals
form as scorned tears
and the trench defines
the gorge to come.

The comment about attempting too much too soon was of course bang-on. With proper guidance one doesn't do it; or is less likely to do it anyway. Ken Cooper is brilliant on that aspect of things

Did run today. Skipped the previous one. Been cycling more than normally. Around last October time I thought I didn't have as much time for this (running) so took to on-the-spot running indoors.

The boredom factor works against it. For me, saving time on this is very much false economy

Obviously I got some key essentials wrong on MJ. Should know better than to take newspapers too seriously. Word is that he's on this Relaxant and that something else.

With running one natural spinoff is an improvement to one's psychological health. Less need of medicating. Seems to be universally true.

I went out today and usually do so about every other day.

A disheartening thing for me - I've kept this up for over a year and a half now - is I see so many drop out after one go or two. They look so good as well many of them

When I decided to get blogging again, I thought to do it on Fitness rather than on writing. So I was getting some writing matters out of the way...

But megastar Jackson forced my hand. Today, the MEN front page, as with other media, is given over to his passing.

Precisely two weeks ago (June 12th) I pick up the MEN. Larger than life, a former acquaintance beams out at me. He went the identical same way as Jacko

My understanding is that someone can suffer a massive heart attack

In a review of DK's posthumously published poetry, I said that as he looked at you he did so with deeper insight than other folk. Thinking on something Pete Kalu said last evening, I realised that was a necessity for him arising out of his then situation.

Specifically what I was referring to was the style of communication from him which said: we've only just met but we're friends lets get going. There isn't (to my eyes) any reason why one can't make a snap correct decision on any new acquaintance and be right much more often than one is wrong.

Hey, Pete Kalu urged some more blog postings
I just stopped myself saying Peter. Maybe that would come across the same way as when someone who knows me by my first name insists on calling me Sir. I pull them up on pretty quickish though

So Pete said some nice things.

At a meeting tonight in Commonword a couple of writers there taked about why they write. I've been for much of my life a 'writer that didn't write' and I bragged aboout it to myself.

Hi all,

would just like to share with you that my short story 'car wash' has been posted on the rainy city stories site

am well chuffed about this : )

http://www.rainycitystories.com/2009/06/22/car-wash

I study the screen
searching your eyes
are they green like mine?

Green like the river
whose ripples relieve a wrought mind

Green like the rice fields
where strands upon strands of green
soften the seized landscape.

Green like conifers that twist and twirl
rows and rows of thick coarse hair

Green like ivy, which conquers walls
leaving windows looking out

Green like roadside trees, who hammer the
roofs of rush-hour traffic - after the rain
followed by teeming tears.

Green like cabbages, patches of green
nourishing the ground

Is he green like me?

We are inviting Mr Griffin
To a banquet today.

He will be greeted by a coconut
Cracked open on is head.

The milk will be mixed with arsenic
To quench the thirst of his supporters.

Then he will be seated on an antique
Mughal chair on the stage with a bleeding head -

Which the paramedics will see to, of course.
Brown children will arrive with jars of turmeric

And apply it to his legs and a henna tattoo
Of 666 will be neatly decorated on his forehead.

A bag of Elephant brand, brown chappati flour
Will be emptied over his arms and lastly