A fine balance

The past month has been all about balancing for me. I am lucky in that I do two things that I absolutely love: parkour and physical anthropology. They both give me great benefits, but I also have a sense of responsibility towards both, which sometimes causes tension. Two weeks ago, I flew to Bogotá for a parkour performance (you can see the video here). The show was great, and it was awesome to see a new country, to interact with some very friendly locals, and train with Frosti, Ryan and Adrian. I didn’t get to stay to play in the city, though, because I had to teach three phys. anth. classes back here in DC, and then, less than 24 hours later, get on a plane to South Africa. I had been invited some months ago to collect calculus samples from some early human ancestors, which was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up! I’m back home now, profoundly grateful that I was able to be involved in both of these projects, but also rather tired. Luckily, both work and parkour are going back to “normal” and I’ll keep working at finding that equal balance between them.