UNPLUG

So I did not quite get to do everything I set out to do yesterday afternoon, but I did pack quit a bit in.

While down at the beach hanging out with some friends playing volley ball my friend and I decided to take a jog along the beach... no shoes, no shirt... It was probably the best run since the off season started. Now some might attribute that to the fact that I was running on the beach in what is arguably one of the most beautiful spots in the US. I agree that is part of it, but I think the main cause for this blissful waltz was running barefoot... my energy grounding into the earth as my spine floated fowards and up toward the heavens.

How much time do you spend through out the day connecting with the earth? Really feeling the earth beneath your feet?
I know that I spend far too little. There are always shoes and floors and asphalt and concrete and layer after layer barricading me from the earth...
A new commitment that I am making to myself is to spend 5 minutes a day with my feet planted firmly into pacha mamma. I am beginning to think that we as human beings have drifted very far from our natural state of being. So I am going to make a conscience effort, in the way I just outlined, to allow myself to just be human, if only for 5 minutes a day.

Keeping with this theme I also want to start to 'unplug' a little more:
Cell phone off, no internet, no computer, no TV, no electronics.
My wife and I are going to Atlanta this tuesday to visit my sister. This will be the perfect oppurtunity for my pilot run.
My plan is to turn off the phone and only check messages during a specific time every evening.
I will most likely log into the net in order to tend to Team Business and to blog, but I will limit my time to 15 minute windows.

This quote is for my mom:

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest
lion or it will be killed.Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows
that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.It doesn't
matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle when the sun comes up you'd better be
running.
(But, unless you're a runner, you won't understand.)

-anon