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Need to rediscover my interior life

Daniel — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:55:52 +0000

I realized today as I took time to read some poetry by Rumi and to journal some just how much I’ve let my interior life slack.
For a good part of my life I had very good discipline with taking time to know myself, my motives, my feelings, and to focus on connecting with God. Unfortunately I’ve been neglecting that discipline for a while now and it’s showing in the rest of my life.
Hopefully my time this morning will be the jumpstart I needed to get that part of life back on track.

I’m still alive

Daniel — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:27:07 +0000

I know that I’ve lost all readership but I am still alive, in case you were wondering. I’m also still skinny(have been maintaining about 190 through the winter) as that was a topic of interest on here.

My life is fairly boring these days though so that explains the lack of updates. Just working away, playing soccer(Indoor at SCOR now after a fall CVSA league), and trying to enjoy life some. You can always see smaller details on twitter (@danielfarrell) if you want to know what I’m up to.

Losing weight this summer

Daniel — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:58:01 +0000

I’ve been dropping some pound this summer. It’s been good to be more active again and also to get back down to a healthy weight. I took a photo of myself in Photobooth yesterday and I saw that I had taken one just before summer soccer. The difference is noticable. Here is before:

And here is after:

I still plan on dropping some more pounds and hopefully putting on a few pounds of muscle as well. I’ll post progress as that happens.

Summer soccer is done but soccer continues!

Daniel — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:28:07 +0000

Our summer co-ed team(Random Heroes) was eliminated tonight in the semi-finals by a heartbreaking late goal. That brings an end to the summer soccer season for me. It was a great experience to get myself back into playing soccer and back into shape in general. I feel like I improved a ton during the season and look forward to continuing to improve as I’ll be playing on a fall team as well.

*Sidebar – if you are a guy soccer player in Richmond and don’t have a fall team yet let me know because our team could use a few more players*

I’m also interested in playing some street soccer if I can find some other people who are interested. I think it would help improve my ball skills and it just looks like a ton of fun! Hit me up if you want to kick it around downtown sometime!

Been busy over here

Daniel — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:23:45 +0000

I haven’t blogged in a while… haven’t really felt like taking the time to write something out that is longer than 140 characters. Might as well catch you all up on what has been happening this summer. The highlights of this summer have been the following:

I have been playing in a CVSA soccer league. It is a coed rec league but is much more competitive than I thought it would be. I’m definitely one of the worst players in the league but I’ve made good improvements. With that has come a renewed push to get in shape. I’ve been going up to the park a lot of mornings and getting in some soccer running(sprints and running, not just jogging). I’m down to about 220 pounds now with a short term goal of under 210.

We went up to Wisconsin on a mini-vacation. We got to see Nate and Anne and also explore Milwaukee, Lake Geneva and Madison some. It was great to see them and celebrate with them that Lebak 2.0 is on the way!

Our 7th anniversary is in a couple days. We are going up to Ashland to eat at Ashland Coffee & Tea and then to walk around and explore the town some. Should be a nice and chill celebration.

Besides that it’s just been mostly work and trying to hang with friends. Hope your summer has been nice!

Obsessed with soccer lately

Daniel — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:10:35 +0000

I’ve been completely obsessed with soccer lately. Maybe it’s that Basketball season is coming to an end or that MLS has started or that the Kickers season will start soon. Or maybe it’s just because soccer is such a fantastic sport! To give you a glimpse of how great it is enjoy this video:

(ht: Soccer By Ives)

Forget baseball… soccer in the bottom!

Daniel — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:59:44 +0000

With today’s announcement that the Renegades are going out of business we are left with only one single professional sports team in Richmond at the moment, the Kickers. They are about to start their season and could use our support! I’ll be updating this blog with more info about games as they come up.

Regarding the title of this post, this may be a pipe-dream but as I was thinking about sports in Richmond I couldn’t help but think that what sport really belonged in the bottom was soccer. All the best soccer experiences in the world have a couple things in common… they are soccer-specific stadiums near pubs and public transit. No place in the greater Richmond area represents that possibility better than the bottom! What do you think?

Robinson Theater is open!

Daniel — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:13:44 +0000

The newly renovated Robinson Theater Community Arts Center opened this weekend! Last night they kicked it off with a free jazz concert featuring local bands No BS Brass and Fight The Big Bull. They had a really good turnout and the concert was a lot of fun.

This afternoon was the grand opening open house. They had a couple of jazz musicians playing, some information out and some drinks and snacks available.

I’m really excited about the potential of this place! They will be doing after school programs for kids and some concerts and the rest of the time it’s available for people/groups in the community to come up with creative uses for it.

It’s about 6 blocks from our house at 29th and Q streets and it’s really in the center of the whole neighborhood. I look forward to walking there a lot!