1. Working out when you're in shape is so much more fun than when you're not. But it also takes longer to feel like you're really DOING something. Problems, I know. Tomorrow morning I'll be going for a run, and that should remind me that I'm not in THAT good of shape - since it's been a few weeks since I've done it.

2. I've started a new habit - writing a long personal email to a long distance friend each day. I happened to be looking back through some old emails, and I used to be truly amazing (ha ha) at keeping in touch, in large part to email. And recently I've been wanting to reconnect, but not being sure how. Enter the email. Oh, and if you want one, just drop me a line and I'll put you on the list. :)

3. I think I'm going to put some poetry up here for a while, when I don't have time/thoughts for a real blog post. I've been feeling how much I need to write and share my writing. It's a huge part of how I define/explain/express myself. I am just not me with out. So, starting now...

I want my life to cover the globe -
seven continents in as many decades,
hear every language from smiling lips,
maybe greet the world through books and films
if fortune doesn't offer moneyed means to get me there.
So each season may be uncomfortably foreign
at first.
But at the end of each year
I hope to peer back into the past,
see pictures of myself laughing with a hundred friends
having grown through every challenge
learned to surf; captained my own ship
made many paths to the sea.
Because what is a life if not the chance to
be everything, fully, moment to moment, day after day,
until the shades are drawn at last.