This evening I ran ~8 miles (for the second time!) and then made spinach soup. I'm so healthy. But it's not as if my grandmother taught me nothing--I also had ice cream for dessert. I'm enjoying running but risk buying too many running accessories. Do I really need something to carry water and food in or can't I just tape them to my clothes or hide them in bushes along my route?
Lately I've started to have the feeling that whatever I'm thinking about shows up sort of inevitably in my surroundings. This could be thoughts about combative personalities like a double-edged sword (30 rock) or midwifery (conversation with my friend Cathy about the next NOW conference in Florida). I suppose it's not that strange, but each time it has carried with it a dreamlike quality.
I also started reading The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression -- which I imagine many people would find themselves relating to strongly and unstrongly at times. Mostly, though, I wanted to share the quote the author uses to preface the book:
Everything passes away--suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will still remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?
-Mikhail Bulgakov, The White Guard
That thought was doubled by the fact that another friend, Erika, got a tattoo on her wrist that reads "This too shall pass," in Norwegian, humorously.
Today the temperature reached 61 degrees -- this should strongly encourage anyone who's thought of it to please visit.
Always glad to hear from you! When does your year in Greeley end?
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