Beautiful Day

Oh, it is lovely out! There's a light dusting of snow. The sun is shinning, and it is a balmy -4 out. No wind, and the birds are twirping. Breath deeply --- the very air is alive!

What a glorious morning.  This week I made plans to go running first thing this morning.  I woke up at 4am, 5am, and at 6am in eager anticipation of this new adventure.  When I woke at 7am my anticipation was gone - oh did bed ever feel good.  I momentarily contemplated pulling the blankets back over my head and conking out for the rest of the day.  It Saturday I reasoned, its my day, and I can do whatever I want! Mastering myself, I rolled over, flipped on the light and reached for my Morning Papers (nearly each morning for the past month I have been writing 3 pages of longhand stream of conscience writing - really cool, but I'll have to tell you about that later).  After so doing, I bundled up - why was I doing this again? - and jumped in the car to go kidnap a friend to come with me (if I must suffer, I was sure going to share :) )


What a beautiful day!  I stepped out my door into the SUNSHINE (haven't seen that in, like, a week), and felt WARMTH on my face rather than the frozen cold I had been bracing myself for. Joy! Bliss! What a gift a little sunshine is.  It didn't stay out long (it ran away to hide behind a cloud), but, oh, it was sweet.

We drove down to the river bottom, and ran .8 km, walked .2 km, and then ran another 1.1 km.  Pretty good for only my second run of the year.  Walking back to the car I listened to the birds, enjoyed the beauty of the nearly-spring coolie, admired some bird tracks, spotted two HUGE birds (Canadian geese? - couldn't be ... they were huge!), and enjoyed delightful conversation.

And life is brighter because of this adventure.  I need to get out and run more.  It makes me feel better, have more energy, gain motivation (made gluten free bread!), and makes the world look more appealing.  I see more good - I am sure it was there all along, but it is like there are spotlights on it now bringing it into focus and to my attention.

I love running! And I love that Spring is coming back to me.  Maybe this is why we have winter - so we can know how sweet Spring is.