4.5 miles
minnehaha falls and back
39 degrees
It felt much warmer than 39. Another great late morning for a run. My back seems to be getting better. Still sore, but not when I’m running. Felt compelled to walk a few more times than usual, but otherwise a good run.
10 Things
- a small bird’s shadow crossing the path
- a glimpse of silver, then the outline of a metal cart, a fold-up canvas chai with someone sitting in it, facing the river, the radio
- below the edge of the world: a steep trail tight against the bluff, going somewhere under the trail and over to the jagged ledges of a ravine
- drip drip drip the sewer pipe near the curved retaining wall dripping water
- empty benches
- hollowed out trunks on the Winchell Trail — empty circles
- a person climbing up the steep slope below the winchell trail on the other side of wrought iron fence
- the falls: white foam
- the edges of the river, slabs of ice/snow then sparkle
- the crooked shadows on the paved path, near the edge, cast by sections of a leaning wooden fence
Created another time playlist, this one all about loops and seasons and time as a circle called “The Wheeling Life.” Favorite song to listen to today: “Windmills of Your Mind”/ Mel Torm´e, which is inspired by hearing it in the season finale of Severance.
Like a tunnel that you follow
To a tunnel of it’s own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving
In a half-forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble
Someone tosses in a stream