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“The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight; he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future; he is wrenched from the continuity of time; he is outside time; in other words, he is in a state of ecstasy; in that state he is unaware of his age, his wife, his children, his worries, and so he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.”

Milan Kundera, Slowness

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“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”

Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

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79miles is about living with a sense of aliveness.

79miles is not about happiness. It is not about fairness. It is not about a life free from pain and loss. It is about living as fully as possible within the context that is presented to us – whatever that may be; about living with a sense of aliveness in response to life as it unfolds in the present, in response to the ghosts of the past, and to the hopes and fears of the future.

79miles.net serves as a container for an eclectic portfolio of projects – ranging from the existential to the practical, from simple solutions to big ideas. But the brand itself – 79miles – is metaphor for the unknown incomplete path ahead, about seeing the journey through to the end, despite the twists, turns and barriers along the way, no matter how insurmountable they may seem.