ENDLESS

Today I talked to a dear friend on the phone. He asked me if I've been writing any poetry lately. I said no...

When our phone conversation ended, I started typing and here's what landed on the screen. This ones for you MIKEE;-)

Soul entranced by any and many... other than you

Be still my friend, for it's almost the end

Of this short journey taken by the long road

away from home and closer to the sun

It's bright in the warmth of her beams

Indeed the clouds try to win over this light of day

Billowing in their beckoning way

Enraptured in the trance of such

As the 7th sea meets her oceans mouth

I'm crying out...

Like a gull for its next meal

Saunter South in these months of cold

I shall find the warmth on blind rock beds and shallow shores

Just like the sound of tides ebb and flow

I'm running so far from edge

I can no longer see the white caps telling me to come home

Tantalized by the succulent nectar fruit growing on branch-less trees

I'm warned of frost being near

My shoes are lace- less

and my head close to faceless

Wander I do, through the thick of night and moons whispered breeze

All of these years have turned over leaves

Falling down and landing

In every direction of my compass rose

Held in hand, enclosed in tattered wear

I'm searching for stars on land

Roaming fields with few slivers of golden grass blades

Dried by the heat of the sun

Summers end is growing past

Brilliant she was and soon she will be again

Nurturing the flower and her open bloom

A scent I yearn for

Over mountains and valleys divine

I'm coming around the dips and turns

Just to get a glimpse of her stature

Brimming over me like warm Sunday coffee

She's fast and seldom furious in her ways

Like mother nature natural

Her name is soul and she lives eternal

Like everlasting gobstopper infinity

Absorbent like sea sponge

Keeping me on the search for endless...

ENDLESS

A run down memory lane...

Sent: Tue, July 28, 2009 12:13:54 PM
Subject: YOU are not going to believe this


YESTERDAY, I was running on the trails here in Hood River, where I go all the time...and I was attacked by a HUGE owl. I MEAN HUGE. I was running along, happy in the 100 degree woods. So pretty, peaceful, and pristine! UNTIL a HUGE and ferocious owl attacked me in the head (with its talons). I SHITTTTTTTTTTTT you not. IN the moment, how it felt hitting my head and pulling my hair, I sincerely thought, this is it, this is the moment, my time has come, and I’m being attacked by murder man. I really thought, someone whacked me in the head and was about to drag me off the trail. IT hit me hard and pulled on my hair. My adrenaline rushed in so hard and I was like “WTF” and ready to fight. I really said that and turned around to attack my attacker! THEN, I didn't even get scared until I realized I was being attacked by an owl and not murder man. Because..." I don't know how to speak or fight in OWL lingo.” SO, it flew away right by my face and perched in a tree about 20 feet up and started talking to another owl I discovered in a tree nearby! I was like...OMG; I'm going to die by OWL out here! So I threw a stick hoping it would fly away. NOPE, just bobbled his head and kept staring me down. The other owl was staring at me too! SO, I took my stick and waved it over head so it wouldn't swoop down and eat me. THEN...I went to get another stick and thought I'd back track, as I was too scared to run by both of the owls! I went to get another stick to protect my head and the owl attacked me again on the other side of my head! Like really attacked my head, REALLY! My head feels bruised today. I screamed and said very bad words and ran waving the 2 sticks, jumped off the trail through the woods and over the dried up stream, up the bank, and onto the dirt road. WTF, I ran fast down the road and got back on a connecting trail a ways down. I was still flailing my sticks over my head and 2 women came around the corner running as well. I warned them and they turned around. THEN, a dude came running off the trail and he'd been attacked 3 times! Then a chick on her mt. bike came off the trail and she had been attacked. OMG!

SO, Douglas was already coming to the woods to film with the documentary dudes...I showed him where to connect with the trail from the dirt road which it parallels about 75 yards away. THE F-ing owl flew through the woods from the murder perch and landed on a branch above the truck and stared at us. OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.

Needless to say, I'm alive, but now I'm not sure I will EVER run that trail again. SOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSO scary and I have war wounds on my head! Can you believe it? At first, before I discovered the other VICTIMS, I thought it was me. AND was like, wtf, I'm a nice and good person, what, why???? SO, I thought maybe he thinks my hair is a rodent, or they have babies! Needless to say, the 2 very protective owls MUST be nesting. BEWARE, they are ferocious while nesting! I truly wish I had video of the craziness!

Oct. 15, 2009
At present time, months later from that sweltering July day…
A running group was born out of that day in time. The 2 women, who turned back on the trail, are now running track workouts with me weekly. Stacy and Carly have joined the forces of nature. Running to their hearts content indeed! And I’m glad to have met them along the owl attack path!

DO IT TO IT....

Ha haaaaa, happy HUMP-DAY folkies! Today is raining juicy raindrops. The sky is a mixture of cloudy grey and bits of blues sneaking in.

Today started with the alarm chiming at 5:53am (I like odd numbers). Rolled out the door for the track around 6:15ish ishh-ishhh. The lady troopers MADE IT COUNT this morning. We managed to pull off a good speed workout in the rain. It was a wimpy rain, nothing torrential slapping our faces with wetness. So after the speediness was done, I jumped in my rig and went to the store to get half-half creamer for the ladies at work.
Dashed to Carly’s to shower and then sit on my butt and watch the today show. Uhhh, do I have to go to work today? Carly has such great couches in her cozy hut.

What is going on TODAY? WHAT will be had on this HUMP-DAY? What’s for lunch and where are your snacks? I heart snacks! I’m going to get my butt out the door before the darkness takes over daylight and get some fresh air. I’m thinking of the weekend and my MUST do’s. I want to go see WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, run the 10k that I’m scared of (3/4th hills) and make more apple oatmeal crisp. THAT’S right…apple oatmeal crisp, a tasty little diva she is. I might make banana bread too, as there are some really sexy almost rotten bananas relaxing on the top shelf of my fridge. In the mix of the weekend that seems to be getting closer, I think I might finish the little book I’m reading and try to chop logs into firewood, go to a yin yoga class, maybe ride a bike, try doing more than 2 pull-ups, maybe eat man-cakes at Stepping Stone Café, go dancing in the big city…and last but not least, not be last (Harvest Dash 10k).









I will leave you with a splash of daily wisdom from a friend;-)









"YOU HAVE TO BE A LITTLE BIT CRAZY TO BE SANE." Marty Wakeland




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqUa_G1h3pw

Today is the day...

And tomorrow is another. What shall I do now and then? Hmmmm, I've just plunged into the sea of cyber verbiage and there's no stepping back my friends!







What sparked this plunge some might ask? Well, over the years of building a compilation of about a dozen journals every few years, all with random entries and in no particular order...always ending in mass destruction. I've gathered them and lit an ever-flame to all the words...watched them burn in a wood stove many miles away. I've thrown them all in the recycle dumpster outside my side porch stoop...and watched the big green truck troll them away. They disappeared before my eyes, some of them still linger in my head-space, and some of them are lost forever.







ALAS, these words are about to be riding the wave of online jargon and such. Here I go folks...







Since this is my very first post, maybe I should right the most. Rhyme a little? Come up with a theme and such? Hmmm, wtf shall I write about in this big juicy space of mine? Maybe share the best song playing on the radio this morning? OK, yes indeed, for your listening pleasure!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuN6gs0AJls







Today, here in the land of the WILD, it's snowing. I can't F-ing believe it! Just last Friday I accepted FALL. That good fight not let go of summer happens every year...until I finally let go and embrace the season. The smells floating around the air, the chill on my face while doing what I do in the great outdoors, pumpkin spice coffee tantalizing my taste buds to the last drop, the magnificent hues of yellow, orange, and gold...all the indulgences of FALL. This season it happened while biking down Dog River. Pedaling to the next downhill adventure, I stopped at an opening that was a picturesque moment in time. MY TIME. And it clicked! Hello FALL, I'm ready for you now, lets play...shall we? Sigh...







And now, snow is falling outside my window! How can this be? Winter is such a little stage hogger. Get back in your cave Ms. Winter, you don't belong in this spotlight. Fall is dancing before me and my she looks lovely.







I'm going to eat apples, log lots of miles on my legs, ride a bike that's too big for me (and I love -it), challenge myself to meditate (me sit still and quiet?), and make something famous. Yes, you read right! I'm going to make something WICKED FAMOUS. It could be apple oatmeal crisp, a squeezable mustard, ketchup, mayo container, a road race everyone and their uncle wants to run, a glitter chap-stick, or maybe something super serious...like a "how to walk in stilettos manual for DUMMIES." You just never know.







And I regress...







TODAY is the day and TOMORROW is another.



Until next time...