I’ve been slacking on the blogging. The previously-habitual updates of years past are just unsustainable and getting crowded out by so many other endeavors:
- For awhile there, I was running/training like a maniac… no doubt that contributed to the worrisome niggle in my quadricep, which I am resting in anticipation of my season finale trail race: the famed Stonecat marathon, in just one week… after which I will stop running for the rest of 2012 (Recovery! Swimming! Skiing! Sleeping in!)
- Grad school is not as difficult as I imagined it would be (nothing ever is, which makes me worry that I’m a worrier) but it is still time-consuming. Did I used to read for pleasure? Oh, wait, that was when I was an undergrad English major.
- Work.
- Little Boy, who is simply the greatest kid ever.
Ah, Little Boy. I stopped listing his milestones because we have achieved something of a normalcy. Like, his first discernible earthquake was probably many kids’ first discernible earthquake; as our modest China cabinet rattled pliantly, he looked up from his coloring, miffed, perhaps… concerned. Oh yes, very concerned. Domestically, he is a cautious child, very cognizant of all the dangers that can befell a child at home. But he loses all fears when he is hurtling down a slight hill on his training-wheel equipped bicycle, or racing through a rock-riddled trail in pursuit of MommyorDaddy, or rolling haphazardly down a leaf-cushioned hill, thrilling in the ensuing dizziness.
Today we went to Crane Beach, one of our favorite summer haunts that is every bit as fun in Autumn. We walked barefoot in the extensive tree-pocked sand dunes, and Little Boy was simply magnificent: Running, laughing, genuinely enjoying taking a walk with his parents, and needing little to no prodding to maintain onward progression.
After walking for nearly 2 hours, we were more than ready for our picnic, so we took a cut-off trail to the beach and found it incredibly foggy and empty.
After eating our sandwiches, we frolicked…
Fished (in vain)…
Meditated (yeah right)…
and made thousands of footprints.
Then we walked through the dunes back to the car. I adore walking in dunes; it’s the closest thing to being on another planet. And, it exfoliates the feet, so that’s pretty awesome.
