August 19th, 2021 By Indiana

14 PAX. No rain but a tropical heavy warm fog. 74F. Winds SW at 5

We mosey from AO to the TOP of the NEW DECK doing some high knees and karaoke. There is some puffing and grumbling but no deaths occur.

WARM UP

SSH x 12

Plank Jacks x 12

Down Dog Merks x 12

Loose Change x 10

Arm Circles Forward and Backwards

THANG; In pairs of 2. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN; Start at bottom of level 1; PAX 1 starts running backwards up ramp/ PAX 2 drops and does and exercise and then gets up and runs to catch PAX 1; PAX 1 drops and does same exercise; PAX 2 now runs backwards. Rinse and repeat multiple times all the way to the top.

EXERCISE 1 – ROCK HOPPERS x 10 First ascent

EXERCISE 2- HAND RELEASE MERKS x 10 Second ascent

EXERCISE 3- AIR SQUATS x 10 Third ascent

RINSE AND REPEAT THE ABOVE UNTIL TIME CALLED AT 606am

Mosey back to MARY

MARY

ALL PAX Grab a beautiful heavy block donated by HOMELAND.

Curl/PushPress/Skull Crushers x 15

Box cutters with block overhead x 15

Broga with down dog, runners stretch, childs pose

MOLESKIN:

Prayers for healing for Hipbone, Homeland, Marlboros brother and his family. Prayers for TrickDaddy and safety as he returns on mission to Brazil. Prayer for LMU M and son in CALI.  Prayers for all of those in AFGHANISTAN suffering and in fear. Prayers to bring them to safety.

“Man cannot re-enter Nature except by temporarily rehabilitating that part of himself which is still an animal. And this…can be achieved only by placing himself in relation to another animal.” Jose Ortega Y Gasset

We have all been blessed or some would say cursed with a big brain.  It is our greatest asset allowing us to think, create, articulate language, physics, mathematics, interact with our world, and to imagine; and sometimes our greatest liability leading us down bunny trails studded with worry, anger, fear, depression, and pessimism for the world that is our home.

Take time to take care of your brain just like you do for your body.  Put down your smartphone if you dare for 2-3 hours.  If you cannot, try getting back to nature where it is easier to be closer to God.  Take just yourself or your child fishing.  Take a walk in the woods.  Get a dog and reconnect to nature thru their eyes and how they see the world thru smell.  Ortega’s message above infers that we are animals that have kind of lost our way and that need other animals for fellowship and good health. This could be a human animal or a canine or any other.  Dogs are easy.  They like us because we both like the same things. FOOD and living in CAVES (modern but still really just a cave).

So get busy taking care of your brain and mental health this fall.  Get back to nature. Slow down.  Spend time this fall outside and reconnect with nature. Get a dog if you don’t have one. I have 4 of them.

Indy

 

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