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TEN. She is TEN with the gusto to go with it . . . .
Well, this year has been quite a year for me in terms of my running. I started 2018 coming off of rehabbing a broken ankle, setting a goal of running 1000 miles and competing in a few races. In many ways I far exceeded my modest goals and in other ways I didn’t. All in all it was a positive year for me. The breakdown: 901 miles run. My goal was 1000 miles, but a broken elbow late this year slowed me down a bit. Completed my 12th Half Marathon Ran an under 2 hour half marathon Ran my first 30k Trail Run Ran an 18 Mile Trail Run Found a running group (or rather they found me?). Either way this has been the…
This quote from Sean Michael Morris is resonating with me today: But maybe instead we should tip large. And give A’s. Believe reasons for missing a deadline. Refuse to get to know students through the window of a rubric. We are not dealing with students, but people with dreams, people who will fail and people who will succeed, people who may end up alone and people whose high point of the day may be a conversation with us. Being kind may seem counterintuitive to the academic ethos—especially when being kind can sometimes mean being wrong—but we owe it to ourselves to think outside our setting, to see past the artificial boundaries of generation, expertise, and authority. And while we’re at it: race, gender, sexuality,…
Always live within your story. Always live in such a way that you honor your story.