Today is the first of my easy Sunday recovery runs. I was supposed to run for 20 minutes at an easy slow pace. I think it is just to get our legs moving and to work out any soreness from our long runs on Saturday. It was beautiful tonight when I went out to run at 7. I tried to go slow and I felt like I was but every times I checked my speed on my watch (because yes I am a techno geek with a GPS on my arm) it said I was running between 9 and 9:45s. Ok that is not slow for me. That is what I was running yesterday. Hmmm maybe that will spread out as my normal run gets faster. Who knows. All I know is it felt great to be outside as the sun was sinking low in the sky covering everything in it's orange warmth. I think I am going to like these Sunday evening jogs. Night night kids.
I have been working through a book on creativity the last few months, trying to let my inner artist flourish. It had been, shall we say, closeted for a while due to too much "flat on white." I have never been one to think I was a true "artist." Yes I take photos and there is art in that, but because I do not feel "gifted" at painting or drawing I always felt a little like a fraud on the creative department. It's funny too because I do have drawings from when I was younger and I have to say I think they are pretty good, so I know the ability is in there, it just has definitely not been nurtured over the years. When I visited the Brooklyn Museum a few weeks back to see the Rockwell Exhibit, I made a point of lingering in the museum after I gorged on Rockwell and found a lovely little room to sit and relax. I called it the Mushroom Forest because of the amazing fabric sculptures that had been created. It was so quiet and calming that all I wanted to d
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