Slackline yoga

My brother sent me an article from the Wall Street Journal, of all places, about a "slackline yoga" practitioner by the name of Jason Magness. Magness is a climbing bum with a difference; he performs yoga moves on a rope suspended above the ground.

Mr. Magness's father, Mark Magness, a retired Air Force lawyer, says he spent 23 years in a job he couldn't stand. So he avoids pressuring Mr. Magness to find traditional work. He admires his son's resourcefulness and spirit, but says he still struggles to accept that Mr. Magness lives in a van. "It pushes all these buttons," he says. "There was part of me that said, 'You need to be secure; security is important, happiness can wait.' Though watching him, that's become less obvious to me.

At the end of the article, Magness is quoted as saying there's a part of him that wants to live a normal life, with a family. I kind of wonder if he isn't lying to himself there... it sounds like he's doing exactly what he wants!

overtime

overtime
Originally uploaded by wereldmuis.

This little grave is adjacent to the farmland off Bragg Hill Road. The marker reads

OVERTIME
BORN 1979
DIED 2001

I wish I knew the story behind that!