| This will be a stream of consciousness SWS. Whatever comes to mind, I will write down. No promises that it will focus explicitly on fitness or food or Primal living. I'm writing this from the backseat of a Lyft. The driver has Elvis Presley "Can't Help Falling in Love With You" playing. I approve. This is Elvis at his best, slow crooning. One of the books that hit me hardest as a teen growing up was On the Road by Jack Kerouac. It was the book that got the "Beat Movement" going in the 50s and set the stage for the hippie movement of the 60s. Anyway, if you haven't read it, it's all about youth, and trying to find "it," and then grabbing it by the horns. Jazz, drugs, sex, wine, poetry, love, adventure, the road, constant movement ("go, go, go!"). In later years, Kerouac realized he'd been chasing false promises and had never actually found "it." He tried Zen Buddhism, playing as a hermit in nature, and fell deeper and deeper into the bottle. He eventually returned to the Catholicism of his childhood but couldn't kick the booze. Sad story, Jack. Kerouac actually patterned his early writing after the patterns of 50s bebop jazz, flitting from thought to thought and observation to observation, trying to capture the immediacy of life as it's lived and experienced. That writing really resonated with me as a young guy. Not so much as an older guy—it reads as a real product of its time (and his age). Now it's Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time." Man, this guy really has quite the playlist. I must have passed at least a half dozen fast food places. I will say that they were pretty sparsely populated. I take that as a good sign. One day I'll have them using Primal Kitchen Mayo for their secret sauces, or at least making their own avocado oil mayo. I'd take that as a win, too. If folks changed nothing about their diets but the mayo and cooking oil they used we'd make massive inroads in the health situation in this country. Besides, the sorry state of the Standard American Diet means the pie is big enough for everyone to benefit. Okay, I'm at my stop. Before I finish this, I've got a task for you. Sometime in the next couple days, perform a spontaneous act of kindness for someone you don't know. Get creative with it. Pay someone's bill, buy their coffee, smile and say "nice jacket, man," offer a $20 bill to someone walking by you, whatever. Actually, do an act of kindness for someone you don't know and someone you do know. Got a wife, husband, mother, kid, friend? Make them happy. Blow their minds. In the comment section of WLL, let me know what you're gonna do. Or what you did? Take care, everyone. | 