Mary Parker Family Blog: Princeton Running Path

With permission from Jill, I'm sharing these snapshots of changing seasons along her running path last year . . .

"Wait, for now.
Distrust everything, if you have to.
But trust the hours. Haven’t they
carried you everywhere, up to now?..."

Galway Kinnell

1-25-15 seven morning snow swans

January 2015

2-4-15 the light of dark seasons

2-10-15 winter forest running companions

2-14-15 bicycle commute precarity

2-25-15 solid ice running challenge

4-2-15 Just this--this new season, this falling night--

4-5-25 not yet green but soon

4-12-15 It is different every time--

4-12-15 This, outside my door every day. Hello spring evening sunlight! What welcome solace you are.

4-19-15 Ten-mile meditation: not running away from or toward, just running through. After 10 miles there's really nothing left to worry about. (Pretty sure that runner's high is the secret path to bliss.)

4-19-15 it goes forever

4-19-15 spring greening

4-21-15 everyday otherworldliness

4-27-15 spring on my path

4-27-15 "...Listen, and lay your head under the tree of awe. When from that tree feathers and wings sprout on you be quieter than a dove..."

4-27-15 These were winter meditations but the season has turned at last.

5-14-15 Remember how this was bare and frozen just a moment ago? I think I see summer.

5-17-15 It changed so quickly. So completely. Blink and this.

8-7-15 Running is the secret to everything. One step and then another, through this beauty--

8-11-15 summer night solace in the NJ jungle

9-27-15 the swans just outside my door

9-29-15 Nature chronicle. Trust the hours. Run through. Breathe steady. Strategies for staying human in place. Semester, you just go ahead and be crazy. I'm not falling for it.