It’s a little early to be talking about the dog days of summer, but wow does it feel hot today. I took a little 20 mile ride this morning at 7 o’clock and was baking by the time I left the house for work. I think my dog feels it, too. She seems depressed.
Sometimes the thought of doing two-a-day workouts from here through August is daunting. It’s not so much the exertion as it is the time. Squeezing 3 hours in and around work really grinds me down at times. Typically I find myself doing some amended version of the day’s plan, and I think you have to do that or you’ll go insane.
But that’s nothing in the big scope of things. What’s really important in this world, in our lives?
I just got a text alert that they found they found poisonous ricin in a letter sent to President Obama. While I’m skeptical, it does bring up emotions similar to what I felt after 9/11.
That day I was working at a news station and stood in horror watching the buildings burn and collapse. The event was horrible in its own right, but I remember feeling a sense of “things will never be the same.” From that day forward we would be hyper focused on terrorism and generally trusting people would be more difficult.
Living in fear is no way to go through life and Boston has raised the energy again. It makes me sick that someone would do that and want to foster more skepticism in everyone’s life. But as I look around at the positive thoughts and rally of the aftermath, I see how much good there is in the world. People all over Nashville and the rest of the country are running to show power in numbers and that, quite frankly, we’re sick of this shit.
Stay strong. Work hard with good intention through the dog days of summer. Kill them with kindness.