Things Going On
Obviously I’ve not been here much since arriving home from my grand European adventure; ah, the sad monotony of everyday life—little to do, even less to write about. This is only a half truth of course. I’m enjoying my life currently, besides, there is another grand adventure in the works (I’ll be getting to that shortly); it’s just that, though my life be enjoyable, it is not something that I feel is worth writing about. I’m doing lots of relaxing. I’ve become addicted to Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations; every episode is up on Netflix for my, and your, viewing pleasure. I’m broke so I can’t develop my film because I have no developer or fixer; this is sad because I’m quite excited to see what I shot while in Europe. I’ve been working on a second blog/website lately for my photography: The Cosmological Eye. My Aix/Michigan girl is coming to visit in a couple days—something I’m looking forward to. Aaaannnd I’ve been working at a cafe a few days a week, doing the barista thing. Those are, I suppose, the most salient details of my day to day right now.
Now for the big trip. The latest and greatest in Scotty’s Grand Adventures. A very good friend of mine happens to be a diabetic—a type one diabetic; this means he was essentially born with the disease; it is not a result of eating poorly and being lazy. He’s also a long distance runner. Two years ago, he decided to take it upon himself to make plans for a run across the country. These plans are finally coming to fruition. In late January of this coming year he will be setting off. From Los Angeles he will make his way across the United States of America solely on foot, running 30 miles a day for four solid months, ending in New York City. It is a call for one’s own concern for his/her health; a call to abandon laziness and apathy and live a more active lifestyle; a call to stop eating shit out of cans and bread with more than three or four ingredients in it (I’m reminded of an essay just now that Henry Miller wrote, called, The Staff of Life); it is a silent alarm crying out that every year more and more people are being diagnosed with diabetes, and that this is something that is preventable if only we looked in the mirror and realized our way of living is a twisted, cancerous mess, like a knot tied in a double helix or a ten car pile-up.
He has a website: 1Run. I ask that you take a look at it and spread it around. This is an historical event, and for a great cause. I will be going along with him; as blogger, as photographer, as friend, and as something as simple as an extra hand. I can’t express how honored I am to be accompanying him on this trip. Doug is one of those extraordinary people who only a select few are, by some sort of divine providence, lucky enough to know. If I had not known it then I would surely have discovered it by now.
