running free

Exceeding goals is very new for me...even as I type this I am incredulous...and yet, why should I be? My goal to run 1000 miles this year is being blown out of the water! I will likely finish the year closer to 1500 miles, or more. Now, maintaining the utmost humility and gratitude that my life allows for the time and effort to accomplish this goal, that my body is staying strong and injury free, I just have to say...fuck yahhhh!

Still on the gratitude kick, feeling like royalty living here on the Westcoast, free, happy and healthy; wonderful friends and family and so much to give thanks for. I keep wondering, how did I end up here? How is it that I deserve this happy life when so many people can't even be free to make their own choices? I don't have an answer, so I'll just have to keep choosing gratitude and pay it all forward whenever I get the chance.

gratitude

I feel it constantly these days. To be free, to be healthy, to be be able to make my own choices, to be comfortable and supported and loved and to have others to love...I thank the stardust for all of it.

catch-a-gory

Yesterday, while driving home in the afternoon after swimming with the kids...we all had that tight skinned, scratchy-eye, after swim feeling. A2 is sitting in the back seat and starts to talk about how, what if everyone in the entire world made a circle with her in the middle and sang together. How cool would that sound? I just smiled to myself and thought about how much I love her brain sometimes and the things she comes up with. I have been cranky lately with the kids. Spending day in, day out with them, especially with the move coming up and all the additional stressors, has been taxing. I find myself wishing they would just BE QUIET, and LEAVE ME ALONE...for 5 minutes...I can't even get my thoughts straight somedays. But then, a small and seemingly pedestrian moment in the car turns into an amazing affirmation that these are little people who are learning and thinking and who will someday be contributing to the light side of the world (I hope) and I'm nurturing that. I get to participate in their growth and their journey. And really, what else would I be doing with my time if not spending it with my kids? This is what I'm doing right now, this is what I get to do. No, life is good and just as it should be for me. I'm a very lucky human.