ustwo:
it's kinda complicated to explain here (as most personal life things are when you arent sure about how to present them in this format, you know?)...since you're in chicago and since there's a side of me that's long been curious about meeting you, if you like sometime i'll explain it over a beer.
but in writing, here, the ultra-shorthand version
my life exploded.
i decided to stop drinking alcohol with the athletic committment that i had been.
i changed my diet entirely, eliminating all processed foods.
when i left the bay area, i got rid of my 98, my ultimate homeboy car.
all i set out to do was change things around about how i was living because i was bored with much of it and unhappy about all of it.
a couple years later, i started riding a bike, mostly because i met a bunch of folk who rode in philly and it seemed preferable to public transport.
and i just kept doing that.
i never "went on a diet" or "started an exercise regimen" so now it seems like the weightloss was a huge unintended consequence of other actions.
if i had "gone on a diet" or "started exercising" i wouldn't have managed it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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