regarding professional athletes

"Many of them are almost sociopaths
in an almost friendly way."


Dr. Michael Joyner MD

We see Nature working with
the enthusiasm of a man,
Blowing her volcanic forges
like a blacksmith blowing his smithy fires,
Shoving glaciers over the landscapes
like a carpenter shoving his planes,
Clearing, ploughing, harrowing, irrigating--
ever working toward beauty
higher and higher."

-John Muir, 1898

essentials

"to philosophize is to learn how to die"

- Cicero