Stone Skipping Is a Lost Art. Kurt Steiner Wants the...This is a comfy, mind-opening article. Even if you've never skipped a stone before (I recommend you try if you haven't), you will probably enjoy this.
' This year he hopes to smash records on both sides of the Atlantic, giving him a platform for sermonizing about a sport he believes is nothing short of a means for the redemption of mankind—“a legitimate path to an essential inner balance" '
It's true, i believe it. Skipping stones by a lake has a calming, one-with-the-world effect
' Throwing the stones felt meditative and timeless, transporting me back to childhood weekends on the pebble beaches of southern England. '
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"He was seeing the back end of the coding rather than the graphics on the screen,”
' It felt natural, as if by clasping a stone he was anchored to the planet, able to “hold infinity in the palm of your hand,” in the words of William Blake. '
Partly this is because of his half-redneck, half-Talmudic-prophet appearance: he looks like a figure who stepped off the stained glass of a local prayerhouse to score Big Gulps and jerky. It’s also an outgrowth of his politics: in a region dominated by Let’s Go Brandon flags, he donates to Bernie Sanders, fears climate change, and despises evangelists.
Wow.
Just, Wow.
Each aspect embodies precision in chaos, “a recognition that when things are arranged a certain way, with a certain use of angles and curves, it echoes something of my soul"
“This culture is pushing people to be all the same, and incurious,” he said. “To me, all that’s against humanity. I really believe I’m in a fight for the soul of humanity. And you can call me crazy, but you need crazy people.”
This is a very CC-like thing to say