good and bad. write or wrong? i'd rather right. thank you. nevermind. um... lot's of strange behaviour has been going on. i've been spending my saturdays at Prospect Park. heard a feint sound today while walking: it was a man sitting by himself playing a congo drum. seemed so free. i went up to him and asked him what kind of drum it was and how long he was playing. he said 10 years. i gave a look of admiration. told him i was interested in playing. he said every sunday like 3-5pm there are drum sessions on Ocean ave. wow. i left that man to his instrument and walked away some more... walked through some more bushes only to see a man in his blanket making weird gyrating motions. i thought only in new york (brooklyn), and just kept it moving. i walked through this path with tree cover, reminded me of some hikes i've been on (i really love this park). came across some kids skipping rocks by the lake. 1 or 2 times was the most they could do. some father figure pops out and shows em how it's done. he said you gotta do it sideways + you need a good rock. he flung one - and it skipped...1,2, 3, 4,5,6 infinity. i thought to myself wow. if only they made jobs for rock-skippers. this guy has a real talent.... afterwards, was looking for a quiet spot to practice my floreiros. couldn't find one. so i settled for a little grove of land where another father figure was teaching a boy soccer. i practiced the S-dobrado and the macaco. pretty soon, i see the father figure and the mother figure (she came later) on their heads, practicing headstands. little did they know, i was not doing yoga. hehe. i ran away, so as to look artsy... and went home finally. that day i had only ran 3.4 miles (earlier). but last week i must've ran like 5.5, feeling like a failure, cause i didn't see the finishing landmark i set, and ended up starting another lap (wondering why the places looked the same - i just thought the park was made of deja vu)... but i didn't finish that lap.
now i feel pretty good about the whole thing.
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what exactly are floreios?
floreiros, sorry. it's capoeira acrobatics
how come this big brother knows my name?
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