My good friend Jay Mershon from Team in Training posted this and I had to share it. We are ALL SO CONNECTED. Please watch this video, it will move you. This is why I am part of TNT, and will be for a long, long time.
https://sites.google.com/site/tntsummercycle2014/mission/monday-mission-moments/414missionmonday
In Peace & Love,
John
Please go to my website:
http://pages.teamintraining.org/nca/jamestn14/jweiskoizx
Today, as I sat at a high top table in the window nook of the Nola Cafe in Frederick, Maryland sipping my whole milk/skim milk blend of a cafe mocha (delicious I might add) and looking out into the tight old city street of downtown Frederick, where cars lined the curbs on both sides of the one way street, trunks to hoods like colorful beads arranged one after another on a wire, a necklace that hangs on the curves and straight lines of a woman’s neck, I watched ten days after the Vernal Equinox as slushy icey rain and snow fell onto the hooded and trunked, umbrella-ed perturbed people their eyes wide open, heads down, sloshing their cautious way up the grey old town Frederick street.
Snow. Street. Ice. Sleet. Snleet. It was definitley snleet. It was a snleetish day. Snlettish way. SNLEET.
Hooray! I say for this snleet today!
On July 22, 1996, Monday, two days after I met my wife Judy in Bolivia, I traveled to Cuzco, Peru where I would take a train at 5:30 a.m. from Cuzco, Peru to Machu Picchu speaking Spanish to a train filled with tourists from Brazil. They spoke Portuguese ; I spoke Spanish (well I attempted as much). Comical and frustrated, there was much pointing and head shaking. Annie Ullrich, a close friend in SoCal, told me that my trip to South America, “would change my life personally and professionally.” It did.
Tonight, February 17, 2014, Judy and I made Pisco sours, a drink I first tasted on that crisp, Andean and ancient evening as I sat outside at a table in the heart of Cuzco, Peru. The air smelled o
f cobblestone streets, Inka woman dressed in colorful woolen shawls wearing bowler hats, and men scuffling along the cobblestone streets in song and conversation. The taste lifted me back. This was a “clean well-lighted place”where I ended up that night sitting on that iron, green round stool watching people amble through the streets. I took a sip. The distinctive Pisco taste gave a taste to those journeyers and locals before me. Hours passed, I guess. I do not remember how long, but time did not matter. Ancient was all around, I felt it to my core, alive, exciting in my reflection. [Read more…]
On February 12, 2011 I was supposed to ride a Century Bicycle Ride (102 miles) with my “Team In Training” group for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in Palm Springs, but my ulnar nerve had a different idea. For me, there will no bicycling for six weeks after my surgery.
Out of commitment and gratitude for my Leukemia & Lymphoma Society donors, I rode 102.86 miles on Saturday Jan. 22 after our Team in Training rode 81 miles; I did an additional 21.86 miles through Marina Del Rey, Venice, Santa Monica, and Brentwood and then back to Playa Del Rey’s Lagoon Park. Patty LaVigne and Chris Trent from Team in Training rode with me. Judy and I (with my left arm bandaged) will be with our “Team In Training” team to support them on February 12 in Palm Springs at the Tour De Palm Springs.
I rode Saturday January 22, 2011 to fulfill my commitment to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, to thank those who made donations to the LLS cause, and to remember those individuals and family members who have struggled against Leukemia and Lymphoma. You will see the names of people inscribed on a bracelet which I had made and wore at my Century Ride on Saturday. I read their names aloud to my team before we rode off at 8:00 a.m.