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12 step program: the heart’s repair part 1

Posted by Frank in news, projects, the crew on 2010/03/08

before the dedication

hey tubby, I'll trade you that beer for some discipline...that's me on the Koh Phi Phi ferry New Year's 2006 pushin' 210 lbs.

It’s a little after 8 am, on an early-April 2007 day.  I’m sitting in my doctor’s office in a really uncomfortable, 70s-era Swedish modular knock-off chair with zero back support.  Leaning forward, elbows on knees, hands clasped, head slung, and to the casual observer, striking a rather serious pose. In reality I’m just trying to take the pressure off my back it but could just as easily be the impending dread weighing on my brow that’s responsible for this posture.

Y’see in about 5 minutes my doctor’s gonna walk through that door and she’s gonna give me some pretty earth-shattering news. Funny thing:  looking back, it turns out this won’t be the true motivation to my change of attitude.  This is just the beginning.  This is just necessary context.  The prologue.

“Frank” she’ll say, as I avoid eye contact, preferring to stare at a photographic audience of newborns adorning all the thank you cards from the host of couples she recently turned into happy parents.

“Your cholesterol is high.  You know that you’ve got a history of heart disease in your family.  You need to make a choice before things get any worse.”

Yup.  I knew it.  Bad news.

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12 step program

Posted by Frank in projects, the crew on 2010/02/02

frank on the lookout. Lion's Head July, 2009.

Lion's Head Lookout, July 2009. This is where the lightbulb went off.

I figure now that it’s officially February I can start telling this story without being overly concerned that you’ll dismiss things as just another new year’s resolution.

It’s definitely not that.

Truth told this whole thing started last year, on the day before my birthday.  And Between July 15th, 2009 and today, I’ve had some of the more profound, life-changing experiences in a year that seemed to contain no shortage of them.  I’ll cover a lot of them during the course of this series.

For now though, all you need to know is that I’ve been inspired to challenge myself.  To take the Beta motto to heart (hell, it is February after all so this organ’ll definitely be a recurring theme).  To go beyond everything I’ve personally tried already.  To achieve something extraordinary.

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