4.2 miles
minnehaha falls and back
53 degrees
Cool enough today for my bright orange sweatshirt! Excellent running weather. I felt strong and was able to push through a few moments when I wanted to stop. Thought about the perception of time during difficult moments, particularly in terms of how to endure it — learning to hold multiple perceptions at once: time on a short scale, day by day, minute by minute, step by step / on a long scale, think beyond this moment to a bigger goal / as in flux, this feeling can/will change again, and again
10 Things
- a cool, dark green
- far ahead, tunnels of bright light
- birdsong — difficult to identify
- a coxswain — rowers down below!
- kids arriving at school — heard, not seen: excited voices
- a roaring creek
- every bench, empty — a stone wall, occupied by a person leaning and looking at their phone
- tall grass smell: almost like cilantro
- sharp, yippy barks at the falls — two little dogs greeting each other
- Hi Sara! / Hi Dave!
After stopping at my favorite spot at the falls, I put in my “The Wheeling Life” playlist. Most memorable song today: “Windmills of my Mind” and these lines:
Like a door that keeps revolving in a half-forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble someone tosses in a stream
I thought, ripples. Such a great word and image on the surface of the water, or from tall grass in a field, or through the thick leaves on a tree. Later, on my walk back, I thought more about ripples and triples and inklings:
- an inkling
- a ripple
- a flicker
- a ruffle
- a whisper
- a rumor
- a tumor — where did that come from?
- a lurking
- a leaking
- a speaking — soft, slow, barely audible
added a few minutes later: Early this morning, 5:30 am, I briefly woke up to stretch my restless leg. I noticed a flashing light through the blinds. An ambulance? The police? A fire truck? No. A runner with a flashing headlight running in the street. I’ve never seen that before, but that’s probably because I’m hardly ever up this early. Would I see it more if I were up this early? Probably.