The encounter with my personal-trained and marathon running acquaintance –who is older and much fitter than I am- has shown me that I really should take up some sport again. The only such activity that I am practising at the moment is taking very long walks in all weather conditions and lifting some extremely heavy whiskey glasses, in-between. In my teens I was quite sporty, but then I lived in the country and hardly ever touched any books so I had ample time. Unfortunately most sports are either extremely inelegant or difficult to practise in the modern world, like horseback-falconry.
I could take on some regular job- art consultant or snake farmer in S-E Asia, maybe, so that I would be able to move about more, more purposefully and vigorously, but, then, that would again disturb the peaceful souls of my forebears. Of my great-grand-fathers father it was still said that 'he never worked a single day in his life'. It was said with admiration, not condescension, mind you.
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I'm a walker, too. Around my neighborhood, to my son's baseball games at the park, the beach at night.
Her hair is like candy and I want to eat it.
Unfortunately most sports are either extremely inelegant or difficult to practise in the modern world, like horseback-falconry.
A classic line! LOL! I had to re-read it.
^ I have studied some time in Asia and a Mongolian colleague, a very buccolic fellow, told me that: 'It is the noblest expression of the human being to ride on a horse and hunt with a bird'. He meant that it is one of the most sublime 'art'-forms one could practice, unifying man, beast and ones will in accordance with the forces of nature..
I've had the pleasure of "owning" a falcon. One of the greatest experiences of my life thus far.
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