Crab-Gal 'bout to board the Relay bus... Getting instructions at Relay Exchange Point 1 - Mile SIX FAST GUYS!!!! Around Fort McHenry...Along the Inner Harbor...
My sole pic from the day. I wasn't sure if my camera would be confiscated when entering the Start Line, so I didn't bring it. This is my one shot, before I put it in my bag-checked bag.
I sang four days to mama, asleep watching her breathe beside me yet not I asked her "where are you, mama? where did you go?" feeling her breathe beside me, yet not four days I sang four nights? four days? I sang to fill her silence to fill her breath to find her and to lead her home, to let her go. I still sing for mama beside me, yet not and I breathe for both of us
*jeanne*
My Mama died at 1 am, five years ago today. I was upstairs, asleep, when the nurse called me. I sat up with Mama until they came to take her body away.
Today I planted an azalea bush in the yard. Tonight I lit two Fourth of July sparklers in my garden. Small offerings in remembrance.
Most of the runners you see behind Ingrid, the laughing race worker, ended up getting award photos taken later. By ME, at the request of the Race Director. :-) I dedicate my run today to
* Life is change.
** Born in New Jersey. (A Jersey Girl, but I don't know "What Exit".) I went to college in Iowa. (NOT in a cornfield, but close.) I was a New Yorker. The proverbial Struggling Actor in Manhattan, and surviving pretty well for 20-something-ish years (I *heart* New York.)
*** Now I live below the Mason-Dixon line. (But I'm born and bred a YANKEE.)
***For awhile, I was an avid-almost-rabid runner, running WITH my camera much of the time. I have been experiencing some "aging ? and other issues", but I still doggedly clod-hoppily-plod my way through events, camera usually in hand. Now I'm even SLOWER than I used to be. *** :-P ***
** I used to help socialize local humane society cats in their foster home, and take photos for the website, but my Haven kitties moved to a farm in Virginia in May 2018. ~meow~
Awaiting my next incarnation, or not....***
I still have a phondness for photography & a recurring Flickr Addiction, so go see my photos!