Life

 

Rewirement (not retirement) literally rewires our brains and forms new pathways.  It’s not a one-shot, time-based deal.  It’s a continual, exciting experience that enables us to live a positive, fulfilling life not bound by time or societal boundaries (like mid-life and retirement).

 

12 months.  4 seasons.  100 marathons.  And… a 100-miler.  Can’t foresee how this next adventure will forever change.  Scary/exciting, diggin’ the unknown.  People I’ll meet, places I’ll see, miles I’ll run.

Gonna drive ‘cross country in June.  Share life/laughs with family/friends in New England.  Finish a 4th tour of our 50 States (targeting Alaska).  Maybe overseas Fall 2024, road trippin’ Portugal?  And marathon somewhere European of course… why waste flight $$, right?  LOL>

Crazy unpredictable.  It all starts Friday.

Exit interview, ‘rewirement’ lunch, 5:30pm flight to Houston.  Tick, tick, tick.  Weight UP 20 lbs, training sporadic but… it begins.  13 marathons over 15 days, Texas to West Virginia.

LIFE ADVENTURE awaits.  Anything is POSSIBLE ❤️

 

 

Rewirement Year

 

Snowmageddon 2024

 

 

No races, no marathons, no travel

  and no running the past 2 weeks.

Only grocery hoarding,

  social distancing

& the upstream swim to continue work.

Changing rules & daily mandates from local government –

  trying to keep its citizens distant & alive.

Breathe.  Let it go.

 

Taking a break

managing the mental side

…the load of online news

Ready ready to run again.

 

Diggin’ the TRAIL CROWDS

so many folk doing their corona exercise.

Folks with kids, folks with bellies

our beautiful new run COMMUNITY.

My Shelter-in-Place neighborhood.

 

Paired, nesting.  GEESE have returned.

Wildlife season & some sense of normalcy.  Spring in Colorado.

 

Wash your hands, stay healthy

Sing ‘Happy Birthday’.

Love y’all.  This too shall pass ❤️

 

 

corona BREAK

 

 

Virus life officially seized hold our State, overnight.  Saturday I attended dinner theatre.  Sunday’s message: all public gatherings over 50 people cancelled.  6 feet social distance, prior day’s PSA tag – now California’s ‘shelter-in-place’ term added to the vernacular.

Restaurants join stadium events (& NBA basketball).  ALL restaurants.  Crazy.  Unimaginable.  It’s this secret disease that’s nowhere in my County – only a handful of cases in the entire State – but now, regularly reading government jargon to determine coworkers’ fate.  Can we work, can we not?  Manufacturers, currently YES but need to full-court transition 50% of Staff to roles from HOME.  Cisco & Zoom, more new words.

Every day, 4pm speech from the Governor.  Every day, a new ‘must not’ rule.

Enter CORONA time.  Dropped Stephen at D.I.A, flying home to New Hampshire.

Next task: grocery HOARDING.  As a guy with 2 vegetables & a condiment on his fridge walls, HUGE MIND SHIFT.  Biggest fail?  Waiting ‘til Sunday to shop.  Shelves almost bare.  No-name pasta sauce & a case of beans.  Outside-lined 7am, Saturday following.  Fog/light snow – at a WALMART, 30 minutes away.  We hear they have trucks bringing provisions while grocery stores remain empty/supply chain awaiting.  CRAZY.  Feed into the hysteria – but, what if.  What if they’re right?

2 marathon weekend, both events cancelled.  Flights/hotels.  Disruption, disappointment, FEAR.

March 15th.  BEWARE the Ides of March… and COVID-19.

 

 

 

 

Shelter-in-Place’ essential activities, according to the order:

  • Engaging in or performing tasks essential to health and safety, or to the health and safety of family/household members.  This includes pets.  Examples include picking up medicine, visiting a doctor.
  • Obtaining necessary supplies or to deliver supplies to others.  Things like groceries count here.
  • Going for a run, hike or other outdoor activity, as long as proper social distancing is observed.
  • To care for a family member or pet in another household.
  • To perform work at an essential business (see below) or perform minimum basic operations.

What about other businesses?

  • minimum activities to maintain the value of the business’s inventory, ensure security or related functions
  • minimum activities to facilitate employees being able to continue to work remotely from their residences