living it

March 6, 2024

• may

  It feels like what May would (may)be feel like in Berlin.

• subdued

  I wonder why I put myself in a place where the climate is shit, not warming of energy. It does make it easier to work, though. No temptation to leave the screen for the green serene, as it's all brown and gray. Subdued. Bland. Washed out. Blanketed with bore.
  
  The only real light from Berlin this time a year comes from the life of the people. I do love my friends. I am really looking forward to seeing their faces, also probably subdued as they haven’t been getting smooches from the sun like I've been getting all month long.
  
  And not just smooches but also caressed and cuddled by mountains. Oh those sweet serene hills from the sierra.

• sea & sierra

  Was cool to actually see snow on the Sierra Nevada — especially while at and in sea.

• what more could you want?

  Mountains. Water. Forest.

• marathon

  I’ll be running something else instead, directing a massive creative industry event in the heart of NYC literally three days leading up to the day of the marathon.

• soft rock

  I'm diggin’ the softness of rock, gravel and grit of the trails. It's fucking hard, too. Those ups, man, fuck me. And those flats upon catching my breath again, fuck me there, too. They're fucking fun.

• dashing happy

  I feel like a speed demon dish-dashin' through rosemary bushes, pine brush and whatever else is rubbing against me as I brush by like a girl in her happy place.

• beyond bon bons

  I'm sitting at a cafe across from the main train station in Malaga. I'm on my second bon bon. The first was a double. This one’s just a pequeño — a lo mejor. I don't need more azucar ni cafeína right now. I also ordered an OJ.

• withdrawal

  I think I'm going to go through OJ withdrawal when I'm in Berlin.
  
  I hope I don't get sick because my body and mind is missing sun and citrus. If I do, then I'll know where I'm really supposed to be in life. Thing is, I already do know. It's here. At least for now. Who knows where I'm supposed to be later. Later’s later.

• base camp

  Now's now, and here I am at this train station cafe listening to Spanish. Seeing more people in one cafe than I've seen in all of el pueblo in the last few weeks. This is a good "acclimation” base camp pre-Berlin.
  
  Expose me to city folk again, then take my sunshine away — and worse, the mountains, the sexy scapes of adventures to be had.

• forget me not

  A couple of locals were on the bus down to Motril this morning — off to buy a coche in Granada. I gave them one of my Berlin stickers to no me olvidéis.

• eq

  I'm rather calm for the excitement that's going on in my life right now. Is this emotional intelligence? Maintaining a good ground when the air around me is buzzing? Tal vez.
  
  Or maybe I've just captured enough of la paz that is el campo so that tranquilidad is me. I'm not just carrying it, I am it and the chaos that is city no me afecta. Puede ser.

• press to play

  What will we get up to today? We'll just have to press play and play. Who's to say, but us?

• fools

  I'm looking forward to laughing like a fool, foolishly, seriously. Sinceramente.

• living it

  I'm in Life. Living it.