During my first two years at law school, I visited & relaxed in the wonders of Wright Park (very near my apartment in north Tacoma) almost every single day … “Big cities are chaotic, and chaos for humans – who have experience from their ancestors – is the last step before conflict. So, in the […]
And during my aforementioned visits to Wright Park, I occasionally reveled in the peaceful beauty of the Seymour Conservatory located therein … “It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert or the jungle and who by the standards set by […]
And it was also in this year that I came across (and became deeply inspired by) the life & writings of Thich Nhat Hanh … “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the […]
This was the summer when my brother Todd came to visit me – the summer when he taught me to throw my first Frisbee-forehand, the summer when we spent endless hours dancing & playing hackey-sack in the street with friends Becky & Jeff & Kevin & Craig, and the summer when we took a fraternal […]
And this was also the year when I ended up playing LOTS of Frisbee golf on the undergrad campus of the University of Puget Sound … “Not all those who wander are lost.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
And this was also the auspicious year when I found Billy – or rather, when Billy found me. You see, I had taken to spending the fair-weathered days of my law school days soaking up the sunshine on the roof of the law school parking garage. And it was on one of said fine days […]
This was the summer I journeyed to Stuttgart (Germany) to start my new “career” as a basketball player & coach. I gave myself a three month window to land in a country where I didn’t speak the language, make the necessary contacts with the local residents who were involved in a sport that was still […]
A thankfully minor knee injury received during the middle of my second season with the team allowed me to travel to Baiersbronn this year and recover there from my arthroscopic surgery, deeply embedded within Germany’s beautiful Black Forest … “A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.” ~ […]
My brother came to visit me during the end of that 2nd season, and we decide to backpack through Europe together thereafter – attempting to play as many Ultimate Frisbee tournaments as possible while doing so. And what was one of our first stops? Playing in the 2nd annual Beach Ultimate World Championships (in Rimini, […]
And one of our favorite stops along the this summer’s glorious way was the Peace-full island of Santorini in Greece … “In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.” ~ Nia Vardalos
After a brief traipse through the beautiful city of Barcelona and then a lovely meander down the Gold Coast of Spain, we had a few extra days and decided to journey into — and subsequently make an unnecessarily dramatic “escape” from — the walled city of Tangier (Morocco) … “Morocco is a real challenge to […]
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