Species

Species' making observations on their own evolution? How strange? That a species would protest its evolution? Write articles about evolution. One is doing or observing, and those who only observe understand nothing. Those who do both, do both. Those who do, this is what we oft refer to as God.

The Irish cyclist

"The one legged squats generate more wattage than most men can generate in their lives.

General, I soon head to Colombia for my visit with you. I hope you have left the place in good shape. I arrive to Colombia to learn how they solve their problems. This is why to travel, according to the Irish man met along the roads of France, the old Irish man. This is why to travel, to find how the people solve the problem. "

Mountains

I ran the trail today, in the mountains, rocks, red and brown dirt, boulders, ridges, foothills, distant peaks, and the feeling the mountain will kill me.

But what's death anyhow, right? If it is predictable, if your life is prolonged by the wishes or wants of others, you have lost your way. No, rather, go when you want to go. Don't let people say the 'risk-reward' was stupid. No, the death was beautiful, the risk, the courage, the sacrifice, and effort. Choose your death wisely. It will come. Face death with two clenched fists, and a stance that says "I've got 13 motherfucking rounds, you fuck."

Moraline's footnotes

Important ideas hide in footnotes. They hide in photographs. Recently, Moraline wrote the following in a footnote to one of my recent pieces:

"If he can go through the difficult process of stripping away the cultural elements that direct him against his nature, the man in the lineage of the hunters of old can himself begin to live again as a hunter.

His life will assume a modern form: maybe a mercenary, or an adventurer, a speedy runner across the mountains, and maybe a cyclist. What is common among the forms is that this man will look to new lands. The hunt is always an exploration into new, often dangerous, territory. The home, the city, the apartments, and the securities and pleasures and comforts of girlfriends and families are all its opposite.

This man who runs and hunts in new lands has allowed his destiny to become him.

He goes alone or with other men so destined."

The city

Twilight 22: Electric Kingdom

"Huh deep in the city people live in the streets

You got to be careful of everyone you meet

There's lootin' and shootin' people stabbin' and grabbin'

The innocent by stander the police are grabbin'

Ain't it a pity 'cause you hate the city

But the way you feel ain't no big deal

You've got to survive and that the real nitty gritty

You go uptown downtown you've got to turn your life around

Back in the jungle a man is free

Free from the street from captivity

Break out break in it doesn't matter where you've been

Snake pit lion's den you need someone to be your friend"

Hunting

On the ascent I felt the sitting of the office getting out of the system. Right at the base of the run, it goes up, so you don't know how good you feel. You might feel bad. You might feel fast. It doesn't matter: this is an ascent, just a mild one here, but it doesn't feel good.

It gets harder and rockier. You go into the trees. There is shade. You wind through the boulders, stones, and soil. And then there is the meadow and the sunlight. You look behind and see the mountain range, right there. And then the meadow again. You begin descending.

During the descent the speed picks up and so too your ability to navigate boulders and large rocks.
"I am a hunter. I am hunting. I am hunting."

And you are competing against other men. The primal feelings of following a trail and moving faster than other men arise. Only on this mountain and on this trail.

The men in the city who chase women aren't men--that is to say, their activity is indicative of feminine behavior. Men know the hunt takes precedence to everything. But not on principal. It is a primal urge for a man to want to hunt more than anything else, and part of this hunt involves competition against other men. A woman is only a very temporary need, and if he is a great hunter, not only does he have no time to seek women, women will readily seek him.

A great man does not seek women. A great man naturally pursues his instinct, and his instinct is to hunt.

Cali

OK, I am going to Cali for the same time frame. I am going to cycle for two weeks in Colombia with Moraline. Crime is on the rise in Colombia, the state is falling apart. The cleansing blood of anarchy makes such a country pure.