Happy Trails
I have been reading a lot of good books lately.
I just finished: “The Spark”, which is an amazing book about the Mom of an autistic child, the struggles and complications of Special Ed, and how she not only fed the spark of her autistic child but for many. Turns out the child she was told will never read, is smarter than any IQ test, and is in college studying astronomy, astrophysics, and a math genius by the time he is 12.
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crazy, haven’t we learned, yet?
Generally, I do program design before I blog, but for some reason today, it’s different.
Today, a lot of things are different.
I am reading a new book, “Race Across the Sky”. Which, you guessed it, is about LT 100 run, and a family, and the Happy Trails Running Club.
I’m having a tough time putting it down.
There’s something in there, something magical, something I feel the need for in my own life.
I feel the need for Happy Trails Running Club.
Why, because of isolation, the outdoors, the feeling of community, and back bone.
The day before the LT100 Mountain Bike Race I moved across the country to Minnesota.
I’m alone, it’s a different kind of alone, and what I have come to understand, that if I am going to be alone, and broke, I may as well be alone and broke, without the crazy emotional roller coaster ride.
I’m not sure I could run 8 hours a day, or only eat twice a day, but the idea of being alone in a house with 15 other people whom you share a deep bond, sounds Universal.
I’m on to the kinetic energy thing, have been for years, that energy is the energy that feeds us and makes us healthy and strong.
Sometimes we surround ourselves with “Toxic People”, that is not good for us.
We become sick, and toxic.
We need to free ourselves from that which holds us back, and allow ourselves to become our ultimate potential.
I’m headed into my busy time of year, really busy.
But I find myself asking why.
I find myself in a lot of deep introspection;
but I can’t run the distance I want to in order to find that thing I am looking for.
I know it is already in me.
There is a blockage.
And I need to be able to knock that blockage free.
I know what I have to do, I want to do it sooner than later, but I am alone, isolated and broke, and I can’t find the road that takes me back home.