Posted by on Oct 4, 2015 | 6 comments

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Marathon Morning

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Well, this is not easy to write about, because mama doesn’t have any illusions about past or future lives that one might live, preferring to try to be in the present and see what that’s all about since figuring it out is pretty challenging anyway, but mama and papa were out watching a marathon this morning that takes place here in the autumn, and hundreds of people start in the centre ville and then run long the beach on their first leg (so to speak).

Mama’s brother used to run marathons. His time was just over 4 hours.

Many years ago, he was to run again in the Monterey marathon, but one week before, he had a small but disabling stroke and was told that if he had run…well, he recovered but did not run again.

But this particular morning, mama was leaning on a railing, alone with only papa next to her on her left, watching the mass of runners go past on the beach below, and she felt someone brush her right elbow and it startled her so much that she tuned around to see what it was.

But there was no one near.

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