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  • When I Was Younger

    When I Was Younger

    What are you passionate about?

    On a sidenote, I’ve always been younger.

    There’s was a time when I was a little kid that I was passionate about baseball. As an adult, I still get a sensation from freshly mowed grass. I think it goes back to when I was a kid freshly mowed grass means let’s play baseball.

    I was actually very good at baseball and got a scholarship. My focus was not always perfect as there was a girl watching my game that I was passionate about.

    Segway to music

    I have always been passionate about music. One summer day in late August in Williamsburg, Virginia a girl named Amy slipped a cassette tape into my pocket.

    It contained the first two REM albums. I was passionate about their music for a long time.

    About that same time, I became passionate about running. Running has led me down many avenues. I never would’ve gone before. I can’t run as far or as fast anymore, but I’m still passionate about it.

    Passion, comes and goes, obsession comes and goes.

    Empty prayer, empty mouths talk about the passion
    Not everyone can carry the weight of the world

    Talk about the passion.

  • Spargelzeit

    Spargelzeit

    What is your favorite season of year? Why?

    I like asparagus, but not quite to the extreme that those in Germany do. Still I love this season in German Germany. Everything centers around asparagus, and it is served at almost every single meal.

    Asparagus & Strawberry Soup (Spargel-Erdbeersuppe)

    A favorite seasonal mashup where sweet spring strawberries meet the delicate bitterness of white asparagus. The asparagus is boiled, pureed into a velvety cream soup, and carefully balanced with a strawberry reduction so that you can taste both sweet and savory notes in one bite. [1, 2, 3, 4]

    Yes, asparagus ice cream is the real thing.

    Everything Has A Time and Place

    Everything in Its Proper Time: Spargel is not a year-round ingredient. The harvest season, known as Spargelzeit, strictly runs from mid-April through June 24th (St. John’s Day). After this date, farmers leave the plants alone to regenerate for the following year. 

  • What is Living

    What is Living

    What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?

    By definition

    “Living” primarily refers to the condition of being alive, the pursuit of a livelihood to sustain oneself, or the state of residing somewhere. Beyond its literal dictionary definitions, “living” takes on deeply philosophical and personal meanings depending on how you choose to shape your day-to-day existence.

    I’ve been doing a lot of living without lately. I spent last weekend at our house that had a large sofa, pillows, blankets, coffee maker, vacuum cleaner, a wet, dry vac, and a birdfeeder.

    I am alive here and typing this. So I lived without a lot of things. Being in the middle of a large move these items were luxury items.

    It may sound like a snarky response, but it is actually not. A country is rich as ours is embarrassing. How many homeless people we have. To a person living on the street a blanket is a luxury item.

    Both my kids in Germany live without a car. That’s a luxury item to them. They don’t need it. They get around fine on trains.

    During the moving process, I start stop taking things to Goodwill. I simply put them out in the curb. There is an adage that goes – one man’s junk is another person‘s treasure.

    I have no idea what someone’s going to do with that beat up recliner the cats destroyed.

    But I couldn’t live without my imagination.

  • Drinking Club With A Running Problem

    Drinking Club With A Running Problem

    If humans had taglines, what would yours be?

    Humans do have tag lines, whether we know it or not. Through gossip, innuendo or however, you’ve earned it, you’ve have a tagline.

    The Hash House Harriers

    The Hash House carriers are an international running group all over the world.

    The Hash House Harriers (HHH or H3 or H4) is an international group of non-competitive running social clubs. An event organized by a club is known as a Hash or Run, or a Hash Run. A common denominal verb for this activity is Hashing, with participants calling themselves Hashers. Members are referred to as Harriers or Harriettes based on gender or preference.

    The Hash is humorously known as A Drinking Club With A Running Problem, with the preferred beverage of consumption being beer. (Wikededia)

    We eventually get a Name

    I’ve been running with a group since 1988 in places all over the United States and occasionally overseas. There comes a time when you get a name that follows you wherever you go. My hash name is Grosser Scheisser which means Big Shi**er in English. This name comes from my ability to tell stories that are larger than life.

    I got phone calls from people asking for Big, people call me it all the time. One of my favorite traditions is sitting around a fire after running and drinking beer. Usually when people get their names.

    Then there are imposters

    Some people come to this running group knowing some of the traditions. They fabricate a name that was not given to them while running with the hash. I can spot the impostors pretty quickly as they tell the story a little differently every time. You have to earn it usually by doing something ridiculously stupid.

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