Fall is the Season
November is here now and I'm in the middle of my favorite time -- right before the holidays, when it's still warm but cool enough to be cozy, and in the middle of all the fun stuff like Halloween, school band concerts, soccer, volleyball and planning for 2010. Sometimes I think my head will explode with excitement.
I finished 13.1 miles on August 30 @ the inaugural Santa Rosa Marathon, and have since spent the last two months doing yoga and lifting weights. My back is in horrific pain... but on Halloween night I dressed up as a ghost and ran 1/2 mile back to my car, scaring little kids as I went. Then yesterday did 21 miles on my bike down Chileno Valley Road. Not bad. I think I'm ready to run again!
I've been really busy preparing for the production of my film and keeping up with work so there's been no time to ponder my own simple pleasures. Well, at the moment, I don't think I have any. Just working hard on my goals, really really hard.
For film support I talked to Roger Haney this last weekend, one of my great friends from grad school. It was like catching up with no time at all whooshing by. We may be in different places, but we're still the same people. He said it best, "It's like no one really changes," which I believe are the truest words of all. If you're present and you connect and you're real, we're all there underneath. That's real friendship, or real humanity, or simply real life.
This photo appears in the November issue of National Geographic magazine, (photo by Monica Szczupider). Taken at the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center in eastern Cameroon, Dorothy was a "prominent figure" among the extended family of about 25 chimps. All of the monkeys stood with their arms wrapped around one another, resting on each other's shoulder and not making a sound as they witnessed Dorothy's burial. And so living beings connect... according to Szczupider, "Every last one of us was silenced by their silence."
I am in awe, and bow to real life.
I finished 13.1 miles on August 30 @ the inaugural Santa Rosa Marathon, and have since spent the last two months doing yoga and lifting weights. My back is in horrific pain... but on Halloween night I dressed up as a ghost and ran 1/2 mile back to my car, scaring little kids as I went. Then yesterday did 21 miles on my bike down Chileno Valley Road. Not bad. I think I'm ready to run again!
I've been really busy preparing for the production of my film and keeping up with work so there's been no time to ponder my own simple pleasures. Well, at the moment, I don't think I have any. Just working hard on my goals, really really hard.
For film support I talked to Roger Haney this last weekend, one of my great friends from grad school. It was like catching up with no time at all whooshing by. We may be in different places, but we're still the same people. He said it best, "It's like no one really changes," which I believe are the truest words of all. If you're present and you connect and you're real, we're all there underneath. That's real friendship, or real humanity, or simply real life.
This photo appears in the November issue of National Geographic magazine, (photo by Monica Szczupider). Taken at the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center in eastern Cameroon, Dorothy was a "prominent figure" among the extended family of about 25 chimps. All of the monkeys stood with their arms wrapped around one another, resting on each other's shoulder and not making a sound as they witnessed Dorothy's burial. And so living beings connect... according to Szczupider, "Every last one of us was silenced by their silence."I am in awe, and bow to real life.
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