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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
TIME Magazine Person of the Year 2006
I was TIME Magazine's Person of the year for 2006.
Steve Burda just reminded me today - how did I forget?
A few timeless quotes
Lose being yourself and win being yourself.
"Success is liking yourself,
liking what you do, and
liking how you do it."
~Maya Angelou
"A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Don't brood. Get on with loving and living. You don't have forever."
~Leo Buscaglia
"In an average lifetime, a person walks about 65,000 miles. That’s two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you’ll use the rest of the miles you’re given.
~Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)
"The best attitude is to be very grateful and thankful and constantly generous. What can I give, not what can I get. Just let the lightness of the moment be what it is." ~Bhagavan Das
"A friend reminded me that you only have to talk about what you do for five minutes at parties, but you have to live what you do every day of your life, so better to do what you love and forget about how it looks. And this, I believe"
~Yolanda O’Bannon, Living what you do every day, NPR “This I believe”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
~Mark Twain
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
~General George S. Patton
"There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something."
~Thomas Edison, inventor, salesman (1847-1931)
"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."
~Mark Twain
“People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion: (the leaders) must both persuade them and move them.”
~Richard M. Nixon
Life is what you make of it.
Just do it.
"Success is liking yourself,
liking what you do, and
liking how you do it."
~Maya Angelou
"A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Don't brood. Get on with loving and living. You don't have forever."
~Leo Buscaglia
"In an average lifetime, a person walks about 65,000 miles. That’s two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you’ll use the rest of the miles you’re given.
~Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)
"The best attitude is to be very grateful and thankful and constantly generous. What can I give, not what can I get. Just let the lightness of the moment be what it is." ~Bhagavan Das
"A friend reminded me that you only have to talk about what you do for five minutes at parties, but you have to live what you do every day of your life, so better to do what you love and forget about how it looks. And this, I believe"
~Yolanda O’Bannon, Living what you do every day, NPR “This I believe”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
~Mark Twain
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
~General George S. Patton
"There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something."
~Thomas Edison, inventor, salesman (1847-1931)
"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."
~Mark Twain
“People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion: (the leaders) must both persuade them and move them.”
~Richard M. Nixon
Life is what you make of it.
Just do it.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Let the integration into Lima begin: Music and basketball strike back
Lima is excellent. I am just breaking into the music scene. Saw some amazing groups the last few weeks, Fiesta Negra and Pepe Vasquez, and a Latin Jazz group with 3 peruvians and 2 cubans, called Kebala. Every monday night this place called La Noche has live jazz w/ free entrance (not easy to come by most nights and places), so that's been the spot. I may even have a chance to play some (I brought my mouthpiece here at least) w/ the university group which from the individuals I've heard so far sound too good for my skills! But I think what I would most like to advance on is my longtime goal of piano lessons. The keys player for that Latin Jazz group, Pedro Luis Pacora www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqJ7jE49fkQ is phenomenal and, while I met the other players in the group, I didn't get a chance to talk to him. I'd like to meet him and ask about lessons. Apparently he teaches at the Swiss School here.
On the basketball front, also great advances: found this place La Canasta through another American guy: www.lacanasta.com.pe
This place is the greatest homage to the game of basketball in which I have ever set foot. It is a shrine to the sport and needs to be featured in tomorrow's Tribune or Sun-Times. It is run by Erasmo Roca, a legend of basketball in Peru. He regularly goes to the US to attend coaches camps. Back in the day when the NCAA began to promote the game internationally, they started coaches camps and he was the Peruvian delegate chosen by Peruvian authorities to represent. He has since trained all the subsequent major Peruvian basketball coaches and countless players. His "Salon de la Fama" (Hall of Fame) has been considered in the press as perhaps the only facility of its kind in all of Latin America. Erasmo's gym is very humble to be sure, despite the paraphernalia, but it is the heart of the basketball world in Peru (which isn't huge I must say). Why? There is no professional league where players earn a living. Instead there are "superior leagues" in which various clubs play against each other.
When I showed up last week to Erasmo's La Canasta for the first time my jaw hit the floor first in awe of the memorabilia he has hanging all around the gym and small office and in the corridor - oh and above the urinals. Aside from the thousands(?) of posters, let me just say he has a replica of the Jordan statue that graces the entrance to the United Center in Chicago. And wait, I just looked it up online and read on the UC's website that the same couple from Highland Park, IL that sculpted the original MJ statue that was set in place in 1994, crafted 123 replicas that were sold to benefit the Charitabulls. Could his be one of these? The dimensions seem about right. And who else would take the time to craft those? Moving on...
Aside from being awed and playing ball for the first time in three months, I talked with "El Profesor" about my interests in playing. He said he'd take a look at me that day and then he's talk around. Well I played last Tuesday and didn't see him, then returned today for more ball, followed by the ever-quenching combo of Ceviche and Cerveza Negra with a few of the guys, and while playing he pulled me off the court to put me on the phone with a coach, Cesar. Cesar coaches one of the top 4 teams in Peru's top league and is picking me up at 8:30 Monday night for practice. I think I finally found my fill until I get back to Graham's Balance Gym in DC. (www.balancegym.com).
On the basketball front, also great advances: found this place La Canasta through another American guy: www.lacanasta.com.pe
This place is the greatest homage to the game of basketball in which I have ever set foot. It is a shrine to the sport and needs to be featured in tomorrow's Tribune or Sun-Times. It is run by Erasmo Roca, a legend of basketball in Peru. He regularly goes to the US to attend coaches camps. Back in the day when the NCAA began to promote the game internationally, they started coaches camps and he was the Peruvian delegate chosen by Peruvian authorities to represent. He has since trained all the subsequent major Peruvian basketball coaches and countless players. His "Salon de la Fama" (Hall of Fame) has been considered in the press as perhaps the only facility of its kind in all of Latin America. Erasmo's gym is very humble to be sure, despite the paraphernalia, but it is the heart of the basketball world in Peru (which isn't huge I must say). Why? There is no professional league where players earn a living. Instead there are "superior leagues" in which various clubs play against each other.
When I showed up last week to Erasmo's La Canasta for the first time my jaw hit the floor first in awe of the memorabilia he has hanging all around the gym and small office and in the corridor - oh and above the urinals. Aside from the thousands(?) of posters, let me just say he has a replica of the Jordan statue that graces the entrance to the United Center in Chicago. And wait, I just looked it up online and read on the UC's website that the same couple from Highland Park, IL that sculpted the original MJ statue that was set in place in 1994, crafted 123 replicas that were sold to benefit the Charitabulls. Could his be one of these? The dimensions seem about right. And who else would take the time to craft those? Moving on...
Aside from being awed and playing ball for the first time in three months, I talked with "El Profesor" about my interests in playing. He said he'd take a look at me that day and then he's talk around. Well I played last Tuesday and didn't see him, then returned today for more ball, followed by the ever-quenching combo of Ceviche and Cerveza Negra with a few of the guys, and while playing he pulled me off the court to put me on the phone with a coach, Cesar. Cesar coaches one of the top 4 teams in Peru's top league and is picking me up at 8:30 Monday night for practice. I think I finally found my fill until I get back to Graham's Balance Gym in DC. (www.balancegym.com).
Saturday, June 21, 2008
The launch of "Earth to Mark"
Hey you!
So it's a blog. Let's see if you keep up with it. Let's see if I keep up with it. If an important basketball game isn't on my schedule, chances are I have no reason to cut my nails. You'd notice by my nails now, that I haven't played ball since May 17, when my team Moose lost the league championship by 13 after leading by 5 with less than a minute. That's not a good example though is it. After all, you can't see my fingernails in photos, and that's frankly all you have to go by as long as Earth to Mark has a reason to exist. Let's try my hair as a metaphor. Now that is something you'll sometimes notice I let go...
I've been my own barber ever since I departed to Barcelona in 2002. I had it done professionally once since that year. It was in France, where I asked the stylist to cut me up like Riquelme, the Argentine footballeur who starred with FC Barcelona while I was there in '02-'03. He must not like the taste of Quilmes as the cut didn't turn out anything like Riquelme would have wanted. I've continued through today to be my own barber for better or worse. It all started in Barcelona..........
Now, I can't say this will be the inner workings of the Mark Wehling mind, as those are for my mind only after all, but I can say that this will be the best way for me to answer you when you call out, "Earth to Mark". (read: "Mark, Are you out there? I miss you"... or "Mark, where the hell are you? ...are you ever going to respond to my email? I've been waitin' to hear from you since friggin 2001")
People wondered where to set their coffee when their forearms tired. The coffee table was their answer.
People often wondered where in the world Mark was. Earth to Mark answered:
Be sure to stay tuned in. It's the only place you'll read about travel, world football, a DC basketball league, hair and fingernails all in two quick paragraphs. No, actually, I'm done writing about fingernails.
Eat it. Sleep it. Drink it. But don't just drink it. Slurp it. Slurp it with vigueur like a six year old beside the Pottawatomie Park pool.
So it's a blog. Let's see if you keep up with it. Let's see if I keep up with it. If an important basketball game isn't on my schedule, chances are I have no reason to cut my nails. You'd notice by my nails now, that I haven't played ball since May 17, when my team Moose lost the league championship by 13 after leading by 5 with less than a minute. That's not a good example though is it. After all, you can't see my fingernails in photos, and that's frankly all you have to go by as long as Earth to Mark has a reason to exist. Let's try my hair as a metaphor. Now that is something you'll sometimes notice I let go...
I've been my own barber ever since I departed to Barcelona in 2002. I had it done professionally once since that year. It was in France, where I asked the stylist to cut me up like Riquelme, the Argentine footballeur who starred with FC Barcelona while I was there in '02-'03. He must not like the taste of Quilmes as the cut didn't turn out anything like Riquelme would have wanted. I've continued through today to be my own barber for better or worse. It all started in Barcelona..........
Now, I can't say this will be the inner workings of the Mark Wehling mind, as those are for my mind only after all, but I can say that this will be the best way for me to answer you when you call out, "Earth to Mark". (read: "Mark, Are you out there? I miss you"... or "Mark, where the hell are you? ...are you ever going to respond to my email? I've been waitin' to hear from you since friggin 2001")
People wondered where to set their coffee when their forearms tired. The coffee table was their answer.
People often wondered where in the world Mark was. Earth to Mark answered:
http://earthtomark.blogspot.com.
Be sure to stay tuned in. It's the only place you'll read about travel, world football, a DC basketball league, hair and fingernails all in two quick paragraphs. No, actually, I'm done writing about fingernails.
Eat it. Sleep it. Drink it. But don't just drink it. Slurp it. Slurp it with vigueur like a six year old beside the Pottawatomie Park pool.
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