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My run this morning was a swift zoom!  We flew.  The snowy path and the cold air met us with open arms.  My run's momentum moved me into writing this poem.  These words below are also inspired by the love of running shared between me and someone I met on the road last month as we ran alone, together up a 4-mile mountain pass out of Williamstown, MA.

"Run, Girl"

She likes to fly.

The flock takes…

(Story takes place on Thursday, October 27, 2011, Day 2 of running across Vermont.)

“Today is going to be one of those days that feels like it is morning all day long,” Ian, my running partner for this run across Vermont, says to me as we stride east out of Richmond, VT.  I know exactly what he means.  Each and every morning we are gifted with such a miraculous new life - a day.  And today is going to be a series of fresh, new moments of birth – a day of mornings.  There is…

(Run Across MA Day 6: Nov 9, 2011, Shelburne Falls to Florida, MA, 19.5 miles)

Dried herbs and flowers hang upside down from the walls of the house.  Strands of garlic bulbs adorn the doorways, and the pantry is stocked with at least two of each non-perishable foodstuff.  The smell of acorn squash baking wafts through the kitchen and into the other downstairs rooms.  Coziness is everywhere - wool blankets lay draped over the rocking chairs; a strand of glistening lights…

(Hello from the Bolton, MA public library, the most amazing library I have ever spent time in!)

For those that  endeavor in their callings, their dreams, their greater purpose, love seems to find its way into their lives.  Is it coincidence that when I am doing the things I dream of, the things that my spirit has been telling me all along to do, love finds its way to me?  The small things that I encounter in a day, whether it be Pam, a local Bolton, MA woman who randomly came up to me…

I am on the road again, beginning a "pilot" run for my 50 States Series to launch in full force in 2012!  I am running across Massachusetts!  My route takes me over 140 miles in 8 days, 15-27 miles a day.  I am running solo with a packpack...a true test.  Something I have not done before solo.  I am excited for the challenge...and for the apple trees of Western Mass!

This run through MA will not only be strides across the state, but also a means to speak at schools along the way about…