what you don't have, you don't need it now
I'm posting a link to this video again, since I think it's sooo good. Really well edited to U2's "Beautiful Day", and the combination of the lyrics and the visuals are especially meaningful to me right now. Among other things, it perfectly expresses the idea: "this is why I skate", for whatever kinds of skating I do, and indeed the larger metaphor of working so incredibly hard at falling and getting up, and falling again, in order to learn to fly and to somehow become beautiful for a moment.
The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town
You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere
You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace
It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination
You love this town
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day
Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out
It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day
Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
Was a beautiful day ~ u2
Andrew Love's video here: It's a Beautiful Day, to Speedskate
I'll make a full post about her soon, but Meaghan Buisson is an amazing woman. Achieved national level in something like 6 HS sports, and world-class level in inline speedskating while suffering from an eating disorder. Suffered a potentially career-ending injury, went to rehab, got her body eating healthy again, and now she's making a bid for the 2010 winter olympics, along with speaking out and being an activist about eating disorders. Yes, in 2006 she set Canadian national records for the shortest (300m) and longest (42Km marathon) inline races. While sweeping first place in all the distances at Nationals that year, she went on an off-day to set the world record for the solo marathon.
The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town
You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere
You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace
It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination
You love this town
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day
Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out
It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day
Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
Was a beautiful day ~ u2
Andrew Love's video here: It's a Beautiful Day, to Speedskate
I'll make a full post about her soon, but Meaghan Buisson is an amazing woman. Achieved national level in something like 6 HS sports, and world-class level in inline speedskating while suffering from an eating disorder. Suffered a potentially career-ending injury, went to rehab, got her body eating healthy again, and now she's making a bid for the 2010 winter olympics, along with speaking out and being an activist about eating disorders. Yes, in 2006 she set Canadian national records for the shortest (300m) and longest (42Km marathon) inline races. While sweeping first place in all the distances at Nationals that year, she went on an off-day to set the world record for the solo marathon.