Through a window darkly--with light coming from above
I can't believe I haven't posted here since December 14. I know why, of course. Two reasons: First, it is easier to throw a photo up on Facebook and make some flip comment than it is to come to this space and articulate what's really on my mind. Second, my running life has been complicated over the last six-plus months--it is even confusing to me. When I've pictured myself trying to explain what's been happening, my reaction lately has been to sigh and go play with the cat instead. So what's been going on? For one thing, I have been back and forth to Connecticut five times since last August for family reasons. All that time spent in a crowded, airless, flying tube is bound to affect a person's general outlook in some way. My way turned out to be becoming claustrophobic, which I've never been before. All I wanted was to be alone somewhere in some open space and free to move my body. And how about the actual running part of this time period? In