olympic_gymnasts raze i'm mystified by these people and what they do. they're magicians, but there's no sleight of hand involved. they make magic with nothing but their own bodies. 160812 ... raze there's a scar beneath the nail of my right middle finger that will always make me think of dominique dawes, a little splotch of white where i once watched catalase turn peroxide to water and oxygen. to anyone else it's just a scar that probably goes unnoticed, but for me it's one small piece of tissue that was left behind in 1996. 210727 ... unhinged a taiwanese polish american seven year old girl watches simone biles doing her olympic floor routine on her living room television and turns to her mommy and says she wants to be like simone when she grows up simone biles drops out of the olympics to take care of her mental health and shoves the paradigm in a totally different direction with the force of her bravery these young women are amazing in so many ways 210728 what's it to you? who go blather from