My Favorite Things

Raindrops on roses and Gatorade slushies
Bright colored jog bras on my boobies no crushies,
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things …

When Jane was a preschooler one of her favorite things was watching what she called “the Do-Re-Mi movie.”

We haven’t sat down to enjoy “The Sound of Music” as a family in a long time, but perhaps we will tonight.

Seeing cute-as-Tinkerbell, pixie-cut “Maria” (Julie Andrews) always puts me in a good mood. I could use that today. I’m not feeling well physically and I got bad news. My sister is injured and she can’t go to Moab with me to run the Canyonlands races. I’m bummed.

Also, for the past few months I’ve been in a slump — a writing slump, a running slump and a general slump. I feel like I can’t do anything well lately. It’s messing with my head and, worse, hurting my heart.

That’s the stinky-rotten-egg news of today.

Now here’s the good part.  There are two things I know for certain about slumps:
1) They are real and almost everyone goes through one once in awhile; and
2) They don’t last forever.

My choices are to focus on my slumps or shift gears. I’m choosing the latter.

Borrowing from “Maria” and “the Do-Re-Mi movie,” here are some of my favorite things:
1) Feeling my strong legs move beneath me and the sunshine on my face as I run.
2) My daughter’s smile and the beautiful freckles across the bridge of her nose.

3) Playing go-fish and Mario Wii with my 5-year-old son today, and holding his warm, little hand as I walked him to school. (I know that won’t last forever.)
5) Eating a bowl of yummy oatmeal with almonds and blueberries and drinking freshly brewed coffee after my run. (Ahhh, heaven!!)
6) A sunrise more gorgeous than high definition can deliver and knowing I can get on with my day in peace now that I’ve already worked out.
7) Hot showers, rising my sweat off me, and and feeling refreshed again.
8) Seeing blue skies here in Colorado once more (it’s been a rough, blustery winter) and having hope that spring may come yet.
9) Curling up to almost anything written by Frank McCourt, Amy Tan or David Sedaris. These writers make me want to stand up on my kitchen table and attempt to sing “Habanera” from “Carmen” (another favorite, and no, I can’t sing to save my life!) — they are that wonderful and talented to me.

10) Bright-colored, great-fitting running clothes such as my orange crush outfit. They make me smile inside and out — always a good thing.

“I simply remember my favorite things and then I don’t feel so bad …”

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Aging is inevitable, but growing old is a choice. Lace up your shoes, and let’s go!

Mileage for 2012: 224

 
 

2 thoughts on “My Favorite Things

  1. Sound of Music” is one of my favorites of all time. I also love “Fiddler on the Roof.” You can’t be in a slump while you’re watching those movies!

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