Flight 93 Memorial 15K

They called it "9.3 for Flight 93", the flight that went down in the fields of Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. I ran it on November 13, 2005, this past Sunday.

A stark, grey day. A small field of runners. An awe-filling and challenging course up and down the hills of Pennsylvania to the Memorial for Flight 93 and back to the Shanksville-Stonycreek High School where the run began.

Every year since 2001, this run has been held here to honor and mourn those lost in these high remote fields. To honor, too, their sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, and friends who were lost in Arlington and New York to the hatred and obsession of terrorism on that same day. As I climbed the hill to overlook the "temporary" Memorial that I believe will remain as long as Americans live on this land, my mind filled with an image of forever stretching forward and backward from the point at which I stood. This landscape knows. This landscape has always known, and always will. And although I will never understand, now I know, as well.

It was a bleak and beautiful run. I shed not a tear, although my eyes filled time and again through this journey. And nothing will ever fill my heart more.

May we have peace. May we learn to tolerate and to live in our world together, without rancor and revenge and madness tearing us apart. May we at last, heal.

Dashing Through the Show

The Fun Run started with a "Ready, Set, Ho! Ho! Ho!"

On Eagles Wings 10K

Autumn has arrived in Chesapeake Beach

Frog, he would a-wooing go, mmm-hmm...

I used to live here

This was the view from the top floor of Manhattan Plaza (The 46th floor) - I lived on the 19th floor.

CB Geese crossing the road

Why did the chicken cross the road?
Dunno...
maybe these GEESE could give their opinion on the matter.
But some FOOL threw food for them right into the turning lane at Chesapeake Beach's main street...so they are currently too busy EATING and blocking TRAFFIC to consider answering such a pointless question. Who really CARES why a chicken crosses the road, anyway?

I'm the United Nations! LOL!

"You're the United Nations! Most people think you're ineffective, but you are trying to completely save the world from itself, so there's always going to be a long way to go. You're always the one trying to get friends to talk to each other, enemies to talk to each other, anyone who can to just talk instead of beating each other about the head and torso. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and you get very schizophrenic as a result. But your heart is in the right place, and sometimes also in New York. "

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