I’m adding these words on Jan 13, 2024. Yesterday was the 7th anniversary of this RUN! project. Wow.
jan 13, 2017 / 4 miles / 2 degrees, feels like -6
In this entry, I posted my running playlist. Since 2011, when I started running, I’ve had the unfortunate habit of editing my playlists — adding and removing songs — instead of creating new ones. As a result, all of the original playlists, as they were first created, are gone. I can remember many of the songs on them — I’m always calling out when I hear one playing, “that was on one of my running playlists!” — but not all of them. Thanks past Sara for documenting this one!
- Hey Ladies/Beasties Boys
- Furr/Blitzen Trapper
- The Raiders March/John Williams
- Don’t Stop Me Now/Queen
- Happy/Pharell Williams
- Without You/feat. Usher
- Skyfall/Adele
- Sorry/Justin Bieber
- Get Lucky/Daft Punk
- Ride Like the Wind/Christopher Cross
- Cheap Thrills/Sia
- I Made it Through the Rain/Barry Manilow
- Back in Black/ACDC
- I’m Going to Go Back There Someday/Gonzo
- ABC/The Jacksons
- The Best of Times/Styx
- The Distance/Cake
- Video/India Arie
- Roar/Katy Perry
- Ordinary People/John Legend
- Learn to Fly/Foo Fighters
- Gonna Fly Now (Theme for Rocky)/Bill Conti
- Don’t Dream it’s Over/Crowded House
- Big Shot/Billy Joel
- Pinball Number Count: 4/Pointer Sisters
- Uptown Funk/feat. Bruno Mars
- Hollaback Girl/Gwen Stefani
- I’m Still Standing/Elton John
- Summer Breeze/Seals & Crofts
- Firework/Katy Perry
- Another One Bites the Dust/Queen
- Baby/Justin Bieber
- Hot for Teacher/Van Halen
jan 13, 2018 / 4.1 miles / 0 degrees / 99% snow-covered
During the winter of 2018, I discovered the irritating delight of crunching snow. Here’s an early poem fragment in which I reflected on the sound snow makes when I step on it:
Running on snow
I hear a crack–
not sharp and singular
like a wooden bat
on a hot summer’s day
but a constant crunch
creaking and brittle
dry crystals shattering
crying out
with every step
jan 13, 2020 /
Every year, reading through these early 2020 entries, when the pandemic was already happening but we didn’t know it, I think about past Sara and what she’s about to experience — you have no idea, I say to her.
My former sister-in-law generously asked the poetry people for vision resources back in 2020 and I archived the link in this entry. I’ve been lucky so far that it hasn’t been lost as twitter dies, but I think I should post a list of the suggestions here:
writing about vision
- Seeing Red/ Meruane
- Emily K. Michaels
- A Vision of Empathy/ Kathryn Ma
- Vanishing Point/ Michele Leggott
- Garden Time/ WS Merwin
- Eye Trouble/ Alice Mattison
- Eyes/ Czeslaw Milosz