I’m on my way back to Toronto from a weekend visiting Steve and Nicole in their sunny cabin in the woods. It’s great out there; you can really feel the melting. As the farms and trees and little houses fly past I’m thinking about what I’ll do when I get back, what my plans should be in the next couple months. Maybe it’s this shift in the weather (thank you spring for being true to yourself) but it’s like I need, or I like I can, begin again too. I’m going to be done my thesis in not too long (will I breathe differently then? Will my hair change color and suddenly grow past my shoulders? Will I tell jokes and laugh at myself? I hope so. It’s been such a long time coming. Sorry everyone for the delay. Patrick you’ll see I was a shooting star once upon a time.)
So I’m going to be done and I’m going start training more seriously for this second triathlon of the sunflowers - and hopefully a few others. I decided last year that triathlons are something I really enjoy doing. And I think I’m good at them. I like running, always have liked running. I’m going to get a new pair of running shoes and hope my knee gets better, along with my ankle (tore a couple of ligaments last August playing Frisbee). I also like biking. I go to a bike class with a really great teacher who makes you feel like it makes sense to commit yourself to hard work, and that it takes both the mind and body to be strong, which it does, doesn’t it mom? And I like swimming a lot more than I did last year. I still don’t like walking to the pool, but I actually like diving in, especially now that my mom gave me all her old bathing suits and I don’t have to wear the same old one all the time. Soon I’ll have matching bathing caps and goggles. You know there are things I want to do. Holy. There are at least 20 sets of birds flying in v formations. I guess they feel the spring too. All of a sudden the south doesn’t satisfy anymore. Well the light is growing stronger every day. I’m letting the sun stare me in the eyes right now even though I know it’s bad for me. Really, can any amount of light be a bad thing in the middle of March?
Well, love to everyone. I think this spring is going to be a good one. I can feel it. And it must be all of you. The sun doesn’t get brighter for no reason. Like the Killers say, “I don’t mind if you don’t mind cause I don’t shine if you don’t shine.”