Running marathons of our own
We all have our own levels of stamina
I walked the Torrens River in Adelaide this week. I don’t see people en masse with any degree of regularity so a walk on the Torrens in the Center of Adelaide at lunchtime put my curiosity into overdrive. Purple shirted workers - taking part in a 7 week corporate fitness program - jogged past me. My mind bubbled with ideas on how we could do something like this in our small town. Sculptures of Origami Boats bobbed in the middle of the river. ‘How beautiful’ I thought. A couple lay on a gorgeous green grassed slope to my right - wrapped up into each other. They were asleep. Nothing could wake them. An America sat around a table with 3 friends singing Savage Garden and reminiscing about the 90’s while squirting his guest more wine from a goon bag. They were happy, harmless.
The ordinary-ness of these encounters absolutely inspired me. Me, new, stepping into someone else’s normal and seeing it as new, fresh and exciting.
Time away from home is good. But gee it takes a lot from me. And I think it’s the heightened level of sensitivity to your ‘new’ surroundings. I know you can relate.
Today’s newsie is a short one for that reason. I do have a lot to tell you but it can wait. Sxx
The Olympics
Have you hit peak fatigue like me? I’m not running a marathon for god’s sake!! But it kinda feels like it this week.
I’ve consumed it on every possible platform in the last 10 days and as someone in the business of content creation - it’s been fascinating to see the spins off’s of the Olympics.
Once it was only the occasional race on the TV and then a half page colour picture the next morning in the newspapers. We’d all fight over who would get to put it in their Olympic scrapbook.
But now - they are so many platforms, so many wonderful options, channels, re-caps, images, film clips, podcasts (hmm) - it’s not wonder there a bit of exhaustion.
But keep plugging away my friends - we’re not there yet. The Men’s Marathon will have been run by the time you get this. I’m so hoping this guy, Patrick Tiernan from Toowoomba has a good race. It’s his first Olympic Marathon but not his first Olympics. He’s an example of why we hurt for our Olympians some times - have
a listen if you have time. Also this week we put out our final episode of Paddock to Paris with paralympian Jamieson Leeson who’s like royalty in her home town of Dunedoo, NSW where she’s been immortalised in a special mural commissioned by QANTAS. You know where to find her story.
Until next week, Sxx