Little Red Running Hood

I wake most days and the house is a disaster of kids and clothes and dishes and so much to be done...... ..... I WANT to clean a barbell... I need to clean my life... I mean my house.... ugh... and then I  think... you can l ook at you r life and call it mess OR you can look at your mess and call it a life.  Then I start searching for beauty.. in everything I see.  Beauty is never hard to find.  Just looking outside can truly overwhelm me.  How beautiful it is to be alive and see the vibrant ever changing colors of a season's evolution.... But there is also so much beauty in the people around me... in who they are... what they have accomplished... or overcome... how much kindness and love they give.... I think about that saying "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"... if life doesn't look beautiful... all you have to do is change your vision.... FITNESS:  It has been an incredible journey.  I have learned that I will always be a runner... running is ...

2020 A few weeks ago, this blog had a very different beginning.  I was about to publish... when I came across this photo..... I love this picture of myself.  I am not sure the photographer knew everything he captured in this moment.  This was after facing some of my biggest fears and learning some invaluable truths about myself. 2018-2019 was a year of learning.  This photo is a picture of a girl who felt like she had lost almost everything, who felt so devastated and so tired.  But somehow, she found the strength and perseverance to keep moving forward... no matter how weak she felt or how hard it got.... and in that prolific moment of realization.... I wrote a new beginning to this story.  I have read that the times we feel crushed, pressed, under extreme pressure, or in total darkness are paths to powerful places of transformation.  I see that now, as I am emerging into new beginnings...That is to say, over a year ago, when I was in so muc...