skateboarding at 50

It's not the @skateboardinghalloffame or @bangerinthehangar but it's a good day with good people just the same. Keep trying, keep pushing. Still rolling after all these years. (at Newark Sportsfield Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWOq3k5hR_9/?utm_medium=tumblr

Restorative calm in the here and now. https://www.instagram.com/p/CLaePtSFfn8/?igshid=1v6030s9pytp

A long time ago... #whysosad off the extension in Moraga maybe 1987? 📷 @bryan_temm (at Moraga, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKn6ZvXFyY7/?igshid=c70dlajtp4tu

If this was BLM or antifa protesters storming into the US Capitol building, the capitol police would be smashing heads and shooting the protesters... Why do Trump's militants get special treatment? (at US Capitol Building) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJt3vIvl5Yl/?igshid=qsn2txr87evs

No caption is needed really, but in case you haven't heard the #TrumpTapes from this morning, you need to. If you still support Trump, please try to honestly imagine you're reaction if Hillary had said these things to a Democratic State Secretary in 2016 to try to overthrow Trump's election. If you can't admit you would have called for her imprisonment, you might want to consider that you have become a member of a cult. #2020overtime #2021beginsJanuary20th #deprogrammingTrumpers https://www.instagram.com/p/CJmIJKGF5SJ/?igshid=4bb97gvnolwb

Just for the familam... Thor and our lovely park. December 1st 2020 #thorisadog (at Sunset District, San Francisco) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIRd70mF9TA/?igshid=29ycatbd2vub

Damn I miss skating... It's been a while. This was back in mid July and is from (I think) the last session I've had in 2 months? Damn. While my current malfunction is getting better, tomorrow I'm finally getting an MRI for my 3-year-old (left) shoulder damage. Since it's still kinda useless, I think I'll need surgery to fix it (and I want it fixed - I haven't done an egg in 3 years... but wanted to skate and avoided getting it dealt with) so I may be looking at more time off my board...I'll find out in a week or so I guess. Maybe I can get a session or two in beforehand, but either way, let the healing begin! Thank you Cebolla @quiverworld for the photo and @mentalbrental for the session, and @oldbonestherapy for getting me out to Chico to plant my hand one more (and hopefully not the last) time. #thankyouskateboarding #imissyouskateboarding (at Chico Skatepark) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFMG97DFWfP/?igshid=16716t80eogd3

Got to do this Sunday and again today. It's great to roll. Everything hurts, but that's to be expected. https://www.instagram.com/p/CCH6pAmF-Gi/?igshid=dqhk0g2vmer7

"What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering;..." - Wordsworth 1804 (at Studio43) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBoN_DZlfHq/?igshid=1jvp3bzh1vw4h

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994 (at Pale Blue Dot) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA_sOmRF5Gd/?igshid=7fzk14vq9ugz

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed ... with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." https://www.instagram.com/p/CA4c8jhluuq/?igshid=yyfwjbtijvi9

I'm not a collector, but I've kept a few memories in physical form... I don't know for sure how many of these experimental plastic trucks were made or who else tested a pair but I'm guessing only a dozen people or so have even heard of them, let alone seen or ridden them. #timpiumarta NHS experiments some time before the foam board (ice chest) skateboard experiments... Not all experiments turn out to be products (for good reason). Some old @independenttrucks from the box I found the plastic trucks in. Skateboarding wheel devolution... Please ignore the Santa Cruz branded roller blade wheel. Me and @shaikukeenan put a stop to these within minutes of discovering Metiver's terrible idea. My old @rickblackhart wheels. Well used and worn. How much more known and unknown #skateboardhistory is sitting in a box in someone's garage right now? https://www.instagram.com/p/CAx5ZnlpqnN/?igshid=1ozf3yxiepr5k

When the world is upside down it's nice to get a different perspective. Finally got inverted for the first time since January. 91-divoC plant? surivanoroC inversion. Thank you for the 📸 @erichongisto https://www.instagram.com/p/CAohTFcl7BZ/?igshid=39e864nbhhkk

#Upgrayedd my bearings today. Thanks @switchsk8supply these N2O #ceramicbearings are smoother than silk, faster than lighting. 👊🏼 #switchsk8supply #switchceramic #ceramaic (haha) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAmOJ7Wl77f/?igshid=cwb2ixlmjqed

Still dreaming... 📸 @cortizphoto @independenttrucks from the #builttogrind25years book. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_0fNinlI7P/?igshid=1qbov2kgl7aoj

More Andrechts. Memories forgotten and remembered...then forgotten again. Somewhere, sometime between '87-89 photographed by someone. #analogmemories in a digital world. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_vt8kBlE2v/?igshid=1podb0jef5b7f