Tag: running
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Sober Sarah? Shiny Happy Sarah? Superhero Sarah!
Meet me in the crowd, people, people Throw your love around, love me, love me Take it into town, happy, happy Put it in the ground Where the flowers grow Gold and silver shine Shiny happy people holding hands Shiny happy people holding hands Shiny happy people laughing Everyone around, love them, love them Put […]
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30 Days of Sober Sarah
So raise your glass if you are wrong In all the right ways All my underdogs, we will never, never be Anything but loud and nitty gritty, dirty little freaks Won’t you come on and come o, and Raise your glass Just come on and come and Raise your glass ~Pink: Raise Your Glass I […]
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If You Hesitate Now; That’s a Subtraction
Let’s get moving into action Let’s get moving into action If your life’s too slow, no satisfaction Find something out there, there’s an attraction If you hesitate now, that’s a subtraction So, let’s get moving girl, into action ~Tim Armstrong: Into Action Conversations tend to take a different spin when you become a full-time stepmom […]
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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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Come Crash, Crash, Crash into Me
When you come crash into me baby Please come crash into me Come crash into me ― Crash Into Me, Dave Matthews Band It’s 3.47am in mid-September and I’m being crashed by Christmas carols. I’m sitting in the Cebu airport awaiting my first of four flights today. Yes, I said four. I’ll travel about 9000 […]
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It’s 3AM; I must be in Manila
She says baby It’s 3 am I must be lonely When she says baby Well I can’t help but be scared of it all sometimes Says the rain’s gonna wash away I believe it ― MATCHBOX 20 I was talking to a colleague yesterday and we were discussing the best time for a conference call […]
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We Go On and On and On…
We’ll stagger home after midnight Sleep arm-in-arm in the stairwell We’ll fall apart on the weekends These nights go on and on and on… ― blink 182 We should have had a Wednesday. Date night is Wednesday. Instead of waking up next to you tomorrow morning, I am half a world away. When you wake […]
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A Self-Indulgent Survival
“I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.” ― Audre Lorde When my alarm goes off at 5.20a tomorrow morning, I will most likely be tired. When the second alarm rings at 5.32a, I will probably still feel tired. That second time […]