Jeff Calvert / Format / Rough

Rough

My First Nighttime Trail Run

If I get into longer ultras I’ll deal with that. For now, it’s just an interesting sensation… I’ll empathize with those who do go long…

Boston Marathon Bombing

We take a breath, realize that we’re still alive, realize that we can stand back up. And then we stagger forward again…

Quantifying the good and bad in people

Humans aren’t simple in that way. The balance between the good and bad a person does is irreconcilable — one doesn’t count against the other…

Time (gratitude and greed)

We must find a balance between gratitude and greed. To somehow be both satisfied and searching, to reconcile our gifts against our hunger.

My neighbor mutilates his trees

He sees no ugliness in what he does. I wanted to cry he proudly pointed to his work and said “they was getting a little high.”

Permission to publish rough work

Could I take what I just wrote, which is rough but not bad, and put it up on my website? To get to Yes on that, I’d first have to…