Tag: Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
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Where Did I Run To?
Originally posted on The Badass Unicorn: I did the disappearing act again and feel that it is worthy of an explanation. Where the heck have I been for the past 5 weeks? Halfway through a major freaking fundraising campaign for one. But that’s not even the half of it, and as of this weekend it…
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Someday is Today
It was like the calm after the storm. The clouds went away, and she woke up; and there was no leukemia. ~Dr. Carl June: Fire with Fire Dear Friends, Family, Foes, and Familiars, It’s a rainy and deary day here in North Carolina, yet it is also a bright and glorious one. You see, we…
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Of Being A Runner
“The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other,… but to be with each other.” ― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Like most, we spent a sobering morning watching the news and the aftermath of the bombings yesterday at the…
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Halfway Around is All the Way For Me
Listen, see I was meant to be a warrior Fight something amongst me, leave here victorious Classroom of kids, or a venue performing If I’d had done for the money I’d have been a fucking lawyer Concrete, vagabond, man telling stories Humbled by the road, I’m realizing I’m not important See life’s a beautiful struggle, I record…
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Why Do You DO?
The aim of life is to live, and to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ~ Henry Miller Early one morning last week I was stopped by an acquaintance who rather politely, but very quizzically inquired, “What do you do?”. He followed up this rather rote question with,…
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Where Did I Run To?
I did the disappearing act again and feel that it is worthy of an explanation. Where the heck have I been for the past 5 weeks? Halfway through a major freaking fundraising campaign for one. But that’s not even the half of it, and as of this weekend it will be time for me to…
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