maxClimb's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=maxClimb2020-08-05T23:02:07ZAugust 5, 2020 (log)http://everything2.com/user/maxClimb/writeups/August+5%252C+2020maxClimbhttp://everything2.com/user/maxClimb2020-08-05T23:02:07Z2020-08-05T23:02:07Z<p>Finally got a <a href="/title/hang+glider">hang glider</a> flight in yesterday. Very good for the <a href="/title/hypoxia">lowpoxia</a>. So much so that I had some creative energy.</p>
<p>https://vimeo.com/444946169</p>
<p>https://www.instagram.com/p/CDg_FWYHizC/?igshid=ahxsn4330xk8</p>
<p>It's not <a href="/title/nodevertising">nodevertising</a> if they're not nodes, <a href="/title/amirite">right</a>? :)</p>July 7, 2020 (log)http://everything2.com/user/maxClimb/writeups/July+7%252C+2020maxClimbhttp://everything2.com/user/maxClimb2020-07-07T01:20:39Z2020-07-07T01:20:39Z<p>My in-his-twenties nephew in <a href="/title/Koreatown">K-Town</a> tested positive for <a href="/title/Covid-19">Covid-19</a> about 16 days ago (still <a href="/title/asymptomatic">asymptomatic</a>), after his roommate was sick the week before.</p>
<p>I had a soft tissue injury on the side of my thigh stumbling a <a href="/title/landing">landing</a> a couple of Sundays ago and have had <a href="/title/water+on+the+knee">water on the leg</a> to the tune of 9 or 10 lbs. extra at times. Had a little water on the knee a couple of times, decades ago; no big deal, wait it out. There was pooled blood behind the thigh at first but it cleared out. I can feel the leg filling as I move about in the morning. Skin gets tight, makes it slow to bend.</p>
<p>Last Saturday I flew briefly and felt exactly what tool in my harness had attempted to <a href="/title/flesh+of+one+flesh">merge with my flesh</a>. Sunday the tool wasn't there but I could feel the harness <em>touching</em> the area. Fun hour of <a href="/title/hang+glider">hang gliding</a>. Monday the thigh/knee had swelled up to just like the previous Monday! It was <a href="/title/Yogi+Berra">deja vu all over again</a>!</p>
<p>Healing<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…June 18, 2020 (log)http://everything2.com/user/maxClimb/writeups/June+18%252C+2020maxClimbhttp://everything2.com/user/maxClimb2020-06-18T14:52:45Z2020-06-18T14:52:45Z<p>"Well James, so far which type of crisis is most to your liking, <a href="/title/pandemic">pandemic</a> or <a href="/title/systemic+racism">systemic racism</a> and police brutality?"</p>
<p>"That's a tough choice Bob! The racist policing & black lives matter thing came on quick and unexpectedly though of course it's been building for <a href="/title/a+very+long+time">a very long time</a>. Too long. It is a behavioral issue from within our individual and <a href="/title/collective+psyches">collective psyches</a>. Solving it should be within our reach. The pandemic on the other hand is an external threat from the <a href="/title/indifferent+universe">indifferent universe</a> and there likely no solution in an <a href="/title/ultimate">ultimate</a> sense. It is part of the growing <a href="/title/Slow+Food">Slow Crisis</a> movement, which we're sure to see more of in the coming decade. Dare I say decades? ha ha"</p>
<p>"ha ha"</p>
<p>"I have to say Bob, I feel like I have a <a href="/title/case">case</a> of Crisis Blueballs."</p>
<p>"I know what you mean James! Sort of like I've been dry humping a <a href="/title/jackhammer">jackhammer</a>. Or it me."</p>
<p>"Somehow we're going to have to <a href="/title/get+off">get off</a> ...the subject, Bob."</p>
<p>"We're going to pause for an inter<a href="/title/mission">mission</a> folks, this is James and this is been James and Bob."</p>March 30, 2020 (log)http://everything2.com/user/maxClimb/writeups/March+30%252C+2020maxClimbhttp://everything2.com/user/maxClimb2020-03-30T13:19:09Z2020-03-30T13:19:09Z<p>Awake before <a href="/title/eos">dawn</a> without an <a href="/title/alarm">alarm</a> again I <a href="/title/crack">crack</a> the kitchen <a href="/title/blinded+by+the+light">blinds</a> as I take my first sip and <a href="/title/glimpse">glimpse</a> the sky and the <a href="/title/somehow">somehow</a> reassuring green LED on my <a href="/title/West+Egg">neighbor's</a> <a href="/title/Up+on+the+Roof">rooftop</a> air conditioner. It doesn't <a href="/title/siren">call</a>, just glows, and <a href="/title/cyclops">nobody</a> knows.</p>March 24, 2020 (log)http://everything2.com/user/maxClimb/writeups/March+24%252C+2020maxClimbhttp://everything2.com/user/maxClimb2020-03-24T17:41:56Z2020-03-24T17:41:56Z<p>Day 5 of shelter-at-home in California.</p>
<p>Grocery store had plenty of stuff, except paper products. Loner me hadn't bought <a href="/title/a+few+bricks+short+of+a+load">a full basket </a> of groceries in years!</p>
<p>Reacquainting myself with 'American Tune' by Paul Simon on <a href="/title/fake+book">piano</a> just now. Had it worked out a few years ago. I played the chorus on the piano for the first time since a little guitar effort a couple of days ago and was really struck by the flying imagery, which I never saw as more than a word in this song that I love deeply. Not patriotically or anything. It's not even imagery, just mention of dreams of flight. Even just picking a little bit on the guitar gives me goosebumps. Anyway I had a brief positive-but-tinged tsunami of emotion about how we're all so connected and alone, for a few seconds. Like the other day when I felt the incredible grief that my brother Mike might actually die soon and I hugged the wargame he gave me for Christmas for dear life.</p>
<p>He reports his flu-like<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…The Idea of Light (poetry)http://everything2.com/user/maxClimb/writeups/The+Idea+of+LightmaxClimbhttp://everything2.com/user/maxClimb2020-03-19T14:53:22Z2020-03-19T14:53:22Z<p><a href="/title/ageless">New</a> photons can bounce around inside a <a href="/title/skull">star</a></p>
<p>for centuries before <a href="/title/emitter">emerging</a></p>
<p>to fly in a <a href="/title/geodesic">straight line</a></p>
<p>at <a href="/title/you">nothing</a></p>
<p>forever.</p>