http://www.runningland.com/2005/08/10/does-community-have-a-value/ wisdom and tripe from a lifetime runner Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:55:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.runningland.com/2005/08/10/does-community-have-a-value/comment-page-1/#comment-160 Eric Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:41:42 +0000 http://www.runningland.com/2005/08/10/does-community-have-a-value/#comment-160 You've been writing a lot frequently: keep it up, I (we) enjoy it. Hope you don't mind my bundling a comment or two. 1. On Community: have you ever noticed that if you and your neighbor each walk out on your own kids for a day, exchange houses, and each watch the others' kids, then each pay the other $100 at the end of the day, you wind up with a net gain of $0, you and your own kids haven't seen each other all day, but the GNP has increased by $200. Sometimes a net plus for GNP is a divet for the community. 2. Franzen: To be hungry all the time, to be mad for sex -- hmmm, I think that pretty much sums up my adolescence. 3. Thee time: ever notice that both atheists and people of faith, when they openly discuss their position, tend to assert that they are anti-PC? 4. Aren't we all: I've noticed for a long time that running is a swell way to have reasonably intimate adult friendships, with either gender, without becoming inappropriate: you spend an hour together, you sweat, you talk. It's one of this sport's best features. You’ve been writing a lot frequently: keep it up, I (we) enjoy it. Hope you don’t mind my bundling a comment or two.
1. On Community: have you ever noticed that if you and your neighbor each walk out on your own kids for a day, exchange houses, and each watch the others’ kids, then each pay the other $100 at the end of the day, you wind up with a net gain of $0, you and your own kids haven’t seen each other all day, but the GNP has increased by $200. Sometimes a net plus for GNP is a divet for the community.
2. Franzen: To be hungry all the time, to be mad for sex — hmmm, I think that pretty much sums up my adolescence.
3. Thee time: ever notice that both atheists and people of faith, when they openly discuss their position, tend to assert that they are anti-PC?
4. Aren’t we all: I’ve noticed for a long time that running is a swell way to have reasonably intimate adult friendships, with either gender, without becoming inappropriate: you spend an hour together, you sweat, you talk. It’s one of this sport’s best features.

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