A Beginning

How daunting is this task?  I feel pressure that this, my first post, needs to be epic.  Instead, it's a humble little history of how and why I am beginning to write this way (in a blog).  

I began running a few years ago.  Because my ear canals are weirdly shaped, I cannot wear ear buds and run to music like many other runners so often do.  At first, I was bummed about this, and even missed the music.  As my distance increased, and many times, I'd run in the same neighborhood places, it got to be monotonous.  

I'm also a Catholic, and I got this inspiration to pray while I run, since I'm not doing anything else.  I began praying a Rosary, and I've found that I can complete one in a little over 2 miles.  This began as kind of a little mortification, since at first, I would rather be listening to NPR or some music.    I asked God to help me love the prayer, the repetition, the meditation.  The prayer began to blossom.

I keep a bunch of Rosarys in my entryway, so that it's always easy to find one.  I even have a few favorites, which I save for special runs.  (I probably shouldn't do this, because Rosarys are sacramentals, not charms, but more about this later).  

Lately, though, I've gotten ideas about topics I'd like to explore, gained better understanding of Catholic teachings that had been difficult for me, my beliefs are actually evolving, (like Obama's).  I need a place to record and document these thoughts; because it's happened that later, I try and remember what I was thinking, and I cannot.  Hence, the conception of this blog...because life begins at conception, right?  (One of my recent evolutions). 

I promise you that this will not be easy to follow, because I am usually all over the place with my thoughts.  Folks have said, and I believe it, that I probably have ADD, but have adjusted and worked-around it all my life.  Okay, here goes.

Peace to you.