October 2009
Again, long overdue. I’m going to try – again – to be better about regular posts here. I am hopeful that as the 2009-2010 school year routine starts to fall into place that I will be able to schedule 30mins or so to work on this blog. I’ve realized – bluntly – that I enjoy writing and I want to become a better writer so I’d better write more frequently.
I get my social media fix through facebook. I enjoy it, I enjoy spending my attention on my friends, and I enjoy the loose connections with people from the many different circles that I’ve been fortunate enough to find myself. But I also want to write a little more and develop some skills that complement the ones I am refining on facebook. A future post will have to be on my thoughts about facebook as full of skill-building opportunities.
I am one week away from running in the Des Moines Marathon with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Team-in-Training (TNT) program.. I have some detailed updates on the training at my fundraising page but one thought I’ve had this morning that I wanted to put down was about the nature of relationships. Before I got into this I saw running as an especially solitary thing to do – it really is just a person moving – and now I can’t imagine running as anything other than a social thing. I didn’t think about this at the time I signed up, but my running this race has connected me with three very different groups of people: people I run with, people with cancer, and people who have donated to the LLS on my behalf. I socialize with my teammates as we put down the miles, I think about people I know and those that I don’t who are fighting cancer, and I feel I owe something to the people that have responded to my fundraising call. Without these three groups of people I just simply wouldn’t be doing this ‘project’ even though I obviously started this without them. I’ll have an update next week after the race. Thanks for revisiting.
