Thursday, February 25, 2010

Day Fifty One

Today marks my fortieth birthday. I spent the morning demonstrating blacksmithing to the 4, 5, and 6 grades of Denver Elementary. Miss Judy gave them instructions to wish me a happy birthday and one class even sang the happy birthday song to me. This is the best birthday thus far!
Last night Kevin Burge, Joel Parsons and Leila Hamden joined me at The Crystal Palace Skating Rink on south third street for a fantastic evening of roller skating. The Crystal Palace is the best skating rink I've ever been to, its huge, with a high polish wood floor, at least 10 disco balls, and neon strung everywhere. It was adult night, there must have been 200 people there! The DJ was amazing and thrilled us with a vast array of R&B, Soul, and Old School Funk. I have never seen so many people enjoying roller skating that much! Afterwards, Joel, Kevin, and I went to Ernestine and Hazel's for Soul Burgers.

My dates for skating in front of the Taj Mahal of roller skating:

A quick video I shot during our evening of thrill seeking on wheels:

Thanks so much to everyone for showing their love and appreciation on my birthday. I feel truly blessed to have so many wonderful friends!

2 comments:

AnonymousFebruary 26, 2010 at 12:10 PM
Sounds like you had a great birthday!
I hope Mary Catherine remembered to give you the card I left with her for you. An "Easter" pkg is on the way with things for you, Mary Catherine and Jake. Love you a whole bunch, Mama
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Jelo PornassMarch 12, 2010 at 3:42 PM
Troy! . . . Troy!
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Rilke said...

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.

Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again.

Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown.

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being in the mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things.

Flow (psychology)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the positive psychology concept has been widely referenced across a variety of fields.^[1]

According to Csíkszentmihályi, flow is completely focused motivation. It is a single-minded immersion and represents perhaps the ultimate in harnessing the emotions in the service of performing and learning. In flow the emotions are not just contained and channeled, but positive, energized, and aligned with the task at hand. To be caught in the ennui of depression or the agitation of anxiety is to be barred from flow. The hallmark of flow is a feeling of spontaneous joy, even rapture, while performing a task.^[2]

Colloquial terms for this or similar mental states include: to be on the ball, in the zone, in the groove, or keeping your head in the game.