Wednesday Soundtrack

Distance: 3.8 miles
Start time: 8:45 am
Run Duration: Don't know, left my watch on the vanity.
Pace: Felt good, never walked. :)
Temperature: 72 degrees
Humidity: 65%
Location: Hermann Park, Houston, TX

I slept in this morning. I mean I really slept in, until after 8:00. I don't work on Wednesday's, so that's not the problem. There really isn't a problem, but I wanted to take advantage of predictions of temperatures in the 60's and be at the park much earlier. I couldn't get to sleep last night and I stayed up late watching "Sex In The City", feeling quite lonely and morose. No wonder I slept so late. What a silly, girly thing to do.

By the time I hit the trail, NPR was almost done with news so I decided to shuffle my playlist on my MP3 player. What shuffle? It was mostly jazz and soul. I left it to run - as I ran. I remember the songs listed below. I know there were more.

Los Lonely Boys - "Heaven"
Suzi Stern - "My Man's Gone Now"
kd lang - "Fallen"
Staple Singers - "Let's Do It Again"
War - "Low Rider"
Charlotte Church - "The Water Is Wide"

Suzi's version of "My Man's Gone Now", from her "Lament" CD is amazing. She is such an artist and she paints images for me with her voice. This was the most difficult and special song for me to hear this morning. Many personal, close memories wrapped up in that one.

I need to get through this blue period. It's not sad, not deep blue, it's more like a gemstone in my Grandmother's jewelry box. It's rich and shimmers if I let it into the light. It's the color of my right-now-favorite dress. It's the color of the waters off Grand Cayman. It's that perfect teal that sits on the horizon and waits to be caught by our cameras, to be remembered forever, but it's not a place where we can linger for long because if we do we'll miss the rest of what's going on around us.

I run the trail to help me walk through my melancholic days. Memories flooded through me as I ran today. I am grateful for the ability to remember and all the events that came back to me today as I felt my feet connect with the earth. Today I lift up my connections and say, "Thank you, Father."