Subject: article
From: "Maryl Baldridge" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:20:49 -0400

is this the article?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/sports/dean-potter-final-yosemite-jump.html?WT.mc_id=2015-JUNE-FB-PROPENSITY_SPORTS-AUD_DEV-0616-0630&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=AUDDEVREMARK&_r=0

just popped up on my facebook feed...  i can see how it resonated with
you.... and i can empathize with the frustration of loving people who live
so passionately and with such intensity that they literally or
metaphorically dive head first off of cliffs :)   there are lots of men
like that in Montana...
A few years ago a guy I grew up with and who was my yoga student died in
one of his pro-snowboarding adventures, and it was so sad, but it was also
impossible to wish he had lived in a safer way, it would have compromised
too much of who he was. After it happened, I felt very connected to my
memory of how he practiced yoga, it was with such presence, he was so IN
everything he did, and at the end of class, he would always just completely
let go in savasana, while the rest of the room sort of squirmed around
uncomfortably.  Maybe he was just tired, but it felt symbolic.   Anyway,
the other amazing thing that happened is that his brother, Jason, who had
also been in the snowboarding world but had left a couple of years earlier
for a more practical path, returned to pro-snowboarding after Aaron
died....isn't that wild?  Instead of feeling like it confirmed his stepping
away from that lifestyle, he expresses that it was like he HAD to go back
after Aaron died.  And he speaks of it as saving his life...like he had
lost perspective, and was living in a sort of compromised way, but after
Aaron died, he remembered what mattered... and now that's what he does.

anyway, i'm not really sure why i'm telling you this long story, but i
think you remind me a little of them... or it's another brother story
you'll connect with.  this is video is sort of long, but if you go forward
to the middle, about 24 minutes, there's this part where Jason is talking
about finishing the video for Aaron... it just reminds me a little of your
experience with Beau's journal...  thought you might enjoy:

https://vimeo.com/3755018