Are you really making progress? Are all those hours in the gym actually working? You sweat. You push. You wake up sore. But then the doubt creeps in. You can work hard for weeks without realizing whether you’ve moved forward. ...
The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its eflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. ...
They walked up the road together to the old man's shack and went in through its open door. The old man leaned the mast with its wrapped sail against the wall and the boy put the box and the other ...