I rode my bike to the bank and the grocery store just now, did so without underwear on, and the air flowing through my shorts, making contact with my skin, felt great, amazing, made me feel in a very immediate way that I was alive and that there was this world I was (and am) existing in.

Playing in the ocean at the beach both yesterday and today presented similar feelings of joy. How to take those and apply those lessons, those observations, to everything? I sat in McCarren Park today with John drinking tall boys and I think I got closer to some answers, or at least at the time, sun shining bright, lying in the shade, beer in hand, pleasant conversation with a friend, I felt that I was closer to such things.