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31 days to 5.12. Plus: finding meaning, eating uber-local, & the creative life
By Russell Max Simon · Launched 2 years ago
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#31: Lessons
Red point 5.12 by August 31st ✅ Eat only food that comes from my property ✅ Write daily (stories published on Substack) ✅ Jettison, for one month, my general aversion to documenting my life on social media ⚠️
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#30: 🧗♂️ Fifth attempt: sent it
Flesh for Lulu went down today. It was my first ever 5.12, and it was glorious. And yet, for a solid half hour, I seriously wondered whether I was…
Russell Max Simon
Aug 30, 2020
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#30: 🧗♂️ Fifth attempt: sent it
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#29: A lingering question
The pandemic and the Trump administration have changed my relationship to government, as a citizen and as a climber
Russell Max Simon
Aug 29, 2020
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#28: Frustrated
Last night I got out of the car after driving for 13 hours, and I felt a sharp, shooting nerve pain in my left arm, shoulder, and under my armpit. I…
Russell Max Simon
Aug 28, 2020
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#27: Ode to the potato
Plus: my "use case" for why I did what I did
Russell Max Simon
Aug 28, 2020
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#26: Third attempt
California is on fire, Wisconsin is in protest, Texas and Louisiana are bracing for a hurricane, and the Trump administration is quite content, through…
Russell Max Simon
Aug 27, 2020
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#25: Food blues
I didn’t do anything climbing-related today. Nor do I have any deep insights into my diet, except to say that food is a wonderful, God-given joy to…
Russell Max Simon
Aug 25, 2020
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#24: Humility
I’m typing this with fingertips that feel shredded and tendons that feel stiff, like my brain doesn’t quite register full control over which keys on the…
Russell Max Simon
Aug 24, 2020
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#24: Humility
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