Ageless in Spirit: Discussions and interests for our times

 January 28, 2022 I'm thinking about play and games. When young I played marbles and got good at it. With my thumb, eyes trained at the group of marbles in the middle and goal of getting that prized marble out of the circle. Or stick ball with the broomstick and harder rubber ball pitched at you with the goal of hitting the ball away! Then there were our adventure games including researching various chemical mixtures that could cause an explosion and different colored flashes. Those days we could go to the pharmacies and talk the pharmacist into getting us various metals and chemicals that we would mix and then fire up. Dangerous, exciting, and rebellious. Basketball was fun and competitive though my proficiency was mediocre. Sure I played card games with parents, grandparents, and friends. Cheating was learned behavior and increased with certain groups of friends. Magic tricks and illusions with slight of hand and skills designed to deceive others became fun. Dangerous risk taking

 January 17, 2022 I am a risk taker, I am an adventurer. I like to explore and learn about the world by immersing myself in it. I began this journey in my childhood. I had a boat with outboard motor which I took out for adventures in the creeks and bays and ocean of Long Island, New York. My mother did worry but helped me learn to fry the snappers I caught with my bamboo pole. I then graduated to scuba diving including getting a thicker wetsuit to dive in the winter off of Far Rockaway beach. One time I recall my mother was there after I emerged by the the rocky jetty shivering and happy to be on dry land. College adventures were tamer. Medical school and residency training in psychiatry limited my adventures mostly in the mind and learning more about myself and my hang-ups. However, during my senior year for six months I traveled with my wife to Liberia and Nigeria where we lived in Abeokuta first at a mental hospital then renting a concrete bunker home while I learned about psychiatr

 January 6, 2022 Yesterday a group of six intrepid hikers including yours truly met at the end of Hau Street in Aina Haina to hike Wailupe Valley. As the group organizer I intended to hike up Niu Valley but gave the wrong directions so we hiked Wailupe. The second image is the details of the whole hike. Very satisfying, stunning beauty with post deluge rainfall over the past few days to soak the group into sometime chocolate  pudding mud. Fecund vegetation growth with hou tree thickets, giant Albizia  trees, Cook Pine trees, and bamboo and even a beautiful wild orchid peeking out of a rotten tree branch. As we progressed up the narrower  gorge carved by the stream I found the going challenging since I wear a brace on my left foot and calf  because of torn achilles tendon. So my friend and I stopped short of the waterfall but the stream was pumping full of water. Please come view the hike through my camera lens. https://www.flickr.com/photos/leonardsjacobs/albums/72157603520494610 The f