11 October 2008

Thoughts on Writing History

When I am running--after about 30 or 40 minutes--my thoughts become so lucid and wonderful and spontaneous. I am not afraid to go THERE or think about past events or plan something, to visualize something happening, to want and desire. I can think of past regrets or embarrassments or mistakes and wretch and run faster.
I think a lack of closeness with one's body leads to disaster on the local or global scale.
Within my own experience, I think being an American makes me inherently more obsessive and worried. (At what point can one make such a judgement absolutely?--never.) But, I think this "Amerimind" is reflected so clearly in our foreign policy. Allow me to be romantic now. If only governmental (mostly) men with agendas took time out to pay attention to their bodies and what state of health they could attain (physical and mental). I would recommend running (training to attain 10-km running endurance) to members of the CIA and other organizations with similar sinister work.

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