it really should be a prettier word

like the word halcyon

for example

It hasn't rained today.  A few minutes ago I wondered if someone had accidentally left the light in the garage on ... sunshine.  Nice.  Blue dome overhead.  I like it.

Today I started the next big deal goal for me.  Running.  I used to love to run. I loved the feel of moving through air.  I loved looking ahead and thinking run 'til you get there ... .  I loved how I felt after the run.  An hour or so later.  I had forgotten that entirely.  I did distance running in high school.  And jumping, which I didn't like.  It was a team thing though, we needed jumpers.  I was unable to sculpt my psyche in to a hurdler.  Hurdles scared me ... running at a wall seemed, uh, insane. I see them, hurdles, even now and that super annoying childhood song spools up ... 

so high 

you can't go over it 

so low

you can't go under it

so wide

you can't go around it

you must go through the door

(duh, the door ... that song grated on me and "sat" me in the corner of Mrs. Shoebrook's kindergarten class more then once)

Anyway ... I started running today.  If you saw me I think you'd call it jogging. I'd run then I'd walk as fast as I could, then run again.  

Still learning about "suffering" in Sunday School. I hoped to make some notes here today, it's a complicated topic. 

Today I am thankful for the being able to run in air that smelled so perfect.