Random thoughts...

The odd things that pop into my head:

• driving to Raleigh in the middle of the night somewhere near where 85 and 40 split
• putting salt in your coffee instead of sugar
• next stop Foggy Bottom
• running along the Roanoke River
• running along Green Lakes
• finishing the Boilermaker
• I'm Spicy!
• ocean waves
• red wing blackbirds

Why don't people look up?

My job allows me to rise and shine even before the sun decides to make another revolution and while this is insanely early, it gives me the opportunity to look up. So few people look up. Most of us spend our days looking at the ground seeing concrete and dirt and the occasional dandelion. Why don't we look up? Why don't we see the trees and the faces of people passing and the sky?
 When I look up before the dawn I see stars and planets and the moon. Just this week I saw the most spectacular display brought to me by the moon and Jupiter. Recently I have also watched Orion's progression across the night sky as he moves into his Winter latitudes...all of this beauty just by looking up.

In the beginning...

This is a whole new place for me to be. A new era. A new choice. I am giving my thoughts a voice. A place to reminisce, a place to share, to create, to learn.

So what I am going to talk about? Hmmm running, being a veg, being green, work, life, probably whatever pops into my head. I will share stories from my youth and the challenges I face everyday. It may be good, it may be awful but here we go.


This is a journey. Welcome to my Run by Mo.