There's a Japanese word for training that goes deeper than practice: the kind the old sword saints did alone in the mountains, when the point stopped being winning duels and became the polishing of the person holding the sword. I met the idea in a strategy classic written four centuries ago by a duelist turned hermit, read it in a weekend, and have failed to live up to it every week since. That's fine. That's the design. The discipline is the path; there's no arriving, only walking it better. Some mornings the mountain is a squat rack. Walk anyway.

Printed on the Comfort Colors 1717, a garment-dyed heavyweight with that broken-in feel from day one.

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