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XXV111 Olympiad
The Olympics enthrall us again.
Every two years as the Summer/Winter Games cycle through our awareness, we become entranced, enchanted, entertained, and inspired by the marvels of the human body in synchronization with mental timing, toughness, grace, and training.
I really can’t watch professional sports - the standard team sports that are mass broadcast to their evidently massive audience. But every two years, I become a sports fan, fanatic even. Telecommuting here during this current Olympiad offers me just about 24/7 cable coverage of the 2004 Athens Games. And during the evenings, the girls and I have suspended our standard movie viewing for nightly rounds of Olympic drama.
We have a personal love of certain events because we are involved in them ourselves. We’ve done white-water kayaking and canoeing for many years. We love horses, we ride and the equestrian events are inspiring and the horse themselves are beings of great grace, strength, and beauteous to behold. Shooting guns is a favorite pastime here. There are many more events in which we participate as recreational activities.
There are so many awesome and inspiring stories of human drama and hard work overcoming adversity that unfold during these global games they are too numerous to mention. If you’re watching, you know. If not, you’ve probably never heard of these folks. Their dedication to their practice is a revelation of the focused life. Watching their perfect bodies move through time and space is to experience sensuality at its highest level. The root meaning of amateur is lover, after all.
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