There is a very subtle but very powerful difference between someone who loves you in spite of what you are and someone who knows you and in that knowing, loves what they find. It’s the difference between being tolerated and being celebrated. It’s the difference between a passive acceptance of a person and the undeniable recognition of a…
Strength, Beauty, and Kindness
“Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.” -Henry Rollins As the dust settles in the wake of my grandfather’s passing. I’ve been reflective on many of the…
Happy Anniversary
February 10, 2013One Year CrossFit Anniversary “Men will be good or bad builders as a result of building well or badly.” – Aristotle January was a less than stellar month for me. Not that December was a cake walk, but I was ready for February to start. At 6:06AM I got a text message that…
Photo Book
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Life Lesson #21: Say Good-Bye
My hands were shaking so bad I sliced my finger open just trying to cut an avocado. Ironically, the hands I sliced were just like his hands. Long, slender fingers, but strong and durable. I always loved his hands. It was just another reminder. One of many reminders that had been flooding my senses the…
The Best Kind of Magic
January 29, 2013 Shortly after 9:30 AM this morning my grandfather’s heart finally stopped beating. I don’t believe it gave out, I believe he decided it was time. By his bedside was my grandmother, his wife of 63 years, his children, and his grandchildren. He would make no sound as he left us, just silently…
The Legacy of the Bubblegum Bathroom
I can only imagine what the eight year old girl must have thought standing in the doorway of the indoor soccer center bathroom door that smelled strongly like cheap bubblegum. There, lying motionless on the floor was a grown woman, eyes closed, not moving, and there was no one else in the room. She…
Life Lesson #20: Play
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” -Plato At noon most days of the week I make the trek to CrossFit Omaha on 90th and L, and alongside about 15 other adults, people I’ve come to love and respect over the last year, we…
Life Lesson #19: Remember
January 23, 2013 My mom called me last night with bad news. My grandfather had been admitted to the hospital again. A frequent victim of nasty infections, half a dozen in as many weeks he weakens and becomes more disorientated each time, making it harder on his body to recover. For a man, at age…
Ring My Bell
“Pick up the bar. Pick up the bar. Pick up the bar.” I kept saying it in my head. It was almost my turn. I’d bailed out under the bar on my seventh and ninth of ten rounds attempting escalating hanging squat snatches and now I was struggling to get out of my own head….
Leaving a Path 