I knew it would be a tough day! Don't ask me how I knew, and don't suggest that it was because of my negative attitude. I just knew!
Probably it was my body talking to me. Because I was forewarned I started out at a reasonable pace and thank god for that. I felt fine through about 12 kms but then the wind started to pick up, and things started to freeze up. Namely my face and my hands. I plodded along and somehow managed to stay on my feet for the planned 33 kms. It took me almost 3 hours! When I got back I could not even undo my shoe laces because my fingers wouldn't grasp anything.
But I did it! All's well that ends well....or is that...all's well that ends!? I'm a bit sore, particularly my bothersome right achilles, but I don't think I over did it too bad. I will know tomorrow.
A few things I was wondering about during my 3 hours.
1) how can someone be against abortion but for capital punishment?
2) how can a bunch of catholic bishops (all men) argue against the availability of contraception for women??
3)how come celebrity drug addicts get forgiven when they die, and regular drug addicts just get forgotten???
.....but unarguably the most difficult question I ask myself and the world today
4) how can the pope have announced 7 new saints and my mother not be amongst them???? wtf Beney????
(run 33 kms, 2:58:36)
....and this guy may have spoken these amazing words, but my mother lived them....
"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy."---St. Francis of Assisi
Love
Peter
Probably it was my body talking to me. Because I was forewarned I started out at a reasonable pace and thank god for that. I felt fine through about 12 kms but then the wind started to pick up, and things started to freeze up. Namely my face and my hands. I plodded along and somehow managed to stay on my feet for the planned 33 kms. It took me almost 3 hours! When I got back I could not even undo my shoe laces because my fingers wouldn't grasp anything.
But I did it! All's well that ends well....or is that...all's well that ends!? I'm a bit sore, particularly my bothersome right achilles, but I don't think I over did it too bad. I will know tomorrow.
A few things I was wondering about during my 3 hours.
1) how can someone be against abortion but for capital punishment?
2) how can a bunch of catholic bishops (all men) argue against the availability of contraception for women??
3)how come celebrity drug addicts get forgiven when they die, and regular drug addicts just get forgotten???
.....but unarguably the most difficult question I ask myself and the world today
4) how can the pope have announced 7 new saints and my mother not be amongst them???? wtf Beney????
(run 33 kms, 2:58:36)
....and this guy may have spoken these amazing words, but my mother lived them....
"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy."---St. Francis of Assisi
Love
Peter
1. As for your #1 thought, I agree, I don't understand it. There's a really cool meme floating around that says:
ReplyDelete"Will you still be "pro-life" after she's born? Will you apply the same vigour to your work against war, against hunger, against poverty, against homelessness, against our planet's degradation, against capital punishment, for human rights, for opportunities for education and jobs, that you do to your efforts to make abortion illegal? If not, please stop calling yourself "pro-life"."
George Carlin also points out that same discrepancy when he has that good bit about how with conservative pro-life people, if you're pre-born, you're great, if you're preschool, you're fucked.
2. I also agree with point #2. The Republican's have taken up their anti-contraception stance (what does that even mean to be anti-contraception?) so substantially in the US that there was even a congressional hearing on contraception. Guess how it started? With a panel composed entirely of MEN answering questions from MALE lawmakers. Several people pointed out how absurd this was that women were not having a say in their own reproductive health matters.
3. As for your third thought, I also think there's something wrong with a music industry that honours the death of brilliant singers like Whitney Houston and Amy Whinehouse, all the while so easily and sufficiently ignoring what are REAL diseases they faced. They are complicit in this. A good, moral industry would include record labels/producers, etc, that stood up and said something. Imagine a world in which they publicly severed their business relationships with Whitney and Amy until they entered REAL rehabilitation and got healthy. And who said they could not in good conscience continue to work with these artists, continue to profit off of them. How easily the industry celebrates Whitney while they completely ignored her real issues when alive just really rubs me the wrong way.
Amen to all of it Michael!
ReplyDelete