Fitness & Health– category –

A reflection on exercise beyond weights and repetitions, and the quiet pleasure of learning movements that make the body feel more familiar.

I reflect on the unease of wearing exercise clothes as a beginner, and on making room for an ordinary, unfinished relationship with my body.

A reflection on rest, the pressure to justify it through better performance, and making room for time that does not need to produce a result.

I reflect on physical training as a way to support the ordinary pleasures I hope to carry into later life, without making aging a contest.