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A Well Run Life

Peter M Deeley Jr.

Come in. Sit down Take a second You get enough advice This is about nothing And everything And all of it in-between That’s enough for now It’s not a sprint Travel to A Well Run Life.com Tell us how you are

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2:13

In The Sack

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/19

I bought a sack of Red Wrigglers and they arrived on my porch yesterday. Here’s how it’s supposed to work: I give them my vegetal table scraps, they eat them and shit agricultural gold. I’ll let you know how it goes. November 2013 I became a gardener. By January 2014 I will be a goddamn farmer.

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2:04

Morning Presence

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/19

In 1978 our Christmas tree made the Charlie Brown Christmas tree look like the one in Rockefeller Center. I’m not sure it wasn’t actually a branch. It is the only tree we ever talk about. It always delivers – we laugh and joke each time about how we kept spinning it looking for its “good side.” Good side? It was barely three-dimensional. What a gift that scrawny little guy gave us.

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3:14

Being Knotty

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/19

I am composing this missive in my head while at the Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall. An elderly Chinese man has his elbow buried in between my spine and scapula. He is using a level of force usually reserved for extracting information.

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2:23

Somethings Should Leave A Mark

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/19

He says: “How about this?” And now, my right shoulder and his right shoulder carry the same mark. Seen or unseen, he’s right there. From here – ’til the end of my road – at every pool, beach, shirtless work-out – the old man is doing his best to make me look cool.

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2:05

Graceful Moves

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/19

I am a crier. It’s just the truth, what can I say? As such, I have to watch The X-Factor in private. I realize they are just shilling for Tide, condoms, Toyota and whatever else. But when the coaches offer a psychological disposition of support – frankly I don’t give a shit if it’s fake – I always bite. Belief in another – support of someone’s hopes – vocalizing the notion “I believe in you” simply touches me in some indefensible place.

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2:29

A Lovely Planet

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/19

I may not be the luckiest person who ever lived, but I have extreme good fortune. There are many many problems I do not have. My plane is leaving soon to return me safely home. At different times, I have lived precariously balanced. My loved ones kept me upright. I am on more solid footing now. More often than not, I trip into greatsurprises – seeing wondrous, beautiful things and meeting curious people. It is a lovely planet.

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2:10

#4 in 30

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/19

When I was very young, I didn’t like onions. I think it was that my taste buds were still so new. Everything tasted so precisely, vibrantly, purely what it was. I now like jalapenos on everything.

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2:53

Athlete Artist, Artist Athlete

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/19

The artist has an audience. In that relationship, a person can delight, antagonize, soothe or jolt another. There you will find a moment of some consequence between two people. It is a beautiful thing. My mom is a successful and brilliant poet. Before other people wrote blurbs on the back of her books and gave her awards and spent money to own her writing, she woke at 4:30 in the morning, sat at the kitchen table and wrote – every day – before kids, work and a million other demands would

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2:34

Not So Fast Eddie

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/18

I am a slow learner. Impatience and haste have cost me a lot. But, against all my instincts, I have decided against rushing to any conclusions. Things break apart – I rack ’em up– and start again.

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3:02

Paper Tiger

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/18

The New York Times and I have a mixed relationship. Without meaningful argument, consistently high levels of thoughtful, careful writing land on my porch every Sunday. But I can’t help but feel it is saying, “You are smart for reading this, but not as smart as I am for writing it.”

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2:44

'76 Olympics

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/18

Alas, I grew up in a family of smokers. Not the modern variety of cat burglar-ing smokers hiding from us, trying to find a place to smoke that doesn’t require wearing a yellow vest asking people not to run them over. No. I grew up among Olympians of smoking, and holidays were game days.

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2:26

Advent

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/18

When I was 21 I met with – what can only be called a “recruiter”– of the Order of Preachers. The Dominicans. He wanted me to become a priest. I tried to explain to him that I was celibate not because I was particularly moral but because I did not have a car, I was skinny and socially awkward. An unholy trinity for a young man.

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4:05

Check Please

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/18

At 32, I finally beat the old man. And since he doesn’t have a blog yet, let me say it was a crushing defeat of brilliant tactics and impossibly subtle strategy. But in all fairness, I do have the body for it.

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3:08

Tail Tale

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/17

I just replaced the “tail” of my dryer. The “tail” is a fancy name for the plug. When I asked the smart-ass attendant at Lowe’s if this was a difficult job, he replied “Can you work a screw driver?”

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2:34

In Loco Parentis

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/17

I have the 12-year-old by the collar and he grips the 14-year-old by the arm. Again, I am clueless. I look at him blankly. Ethan Hawke to his Denzel Washington in Training Day, I hear him bark in a tone of voice that still rattles my sister and me: “You want to die?”

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2:01

Kitchen Heat

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/17

I will save you the narrative of the world’s fastest Internet search, a disappointing shower and the absolute gratitude of having this experience by myself – and just remind you: If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.

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2:46

Ride

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/14

Our puppy caught a bad lottery ticket in an instant and then vomited and barfed his way through the week while we all hope he doesn’t die. You have to be careful what you touch. And if danger lies in that crap pile – why you gonna touch it twice? Some of us think we can wade through the nastiness and not be affected. And then wonder why your toothless yells can’t get you a cab out of the Flop Casa of Broken Dreams.

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3:39

The Interrogative

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/12

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere, they’re in each other all along. The year ends. The year begins. May yours be the most beautiful yet.

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1:49

Flood

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/10

A man of normal intelligence would have checked the spigot for water pressure. Being of abnormal intelligence I cut through the three quarter pipe to test how thorough I had been in turning off the water.

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2:32

Something to Cry About

A Well Run Life ·

2016/07/09

We really needed a round-the-clock team of counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists and exorcists working 7 days a week with us. And a bunch money.

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