{"id":573897551,"date":"2024-10-24T21:36:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T01:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573897551"},"modified":"2024-10-29T04:18:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T08:18:22","slug":"a-period-of-time-short-and-marked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2024\/10\/24\/a-period-of-time-short-and-marked\/","title":{"rendered":"A period of time short and marked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a lovely day. Was it a lovely day for you? It was a lovely day here. We&#8217;re in a nice long stretch of them, and it&#8217;s worth soaking up a little part of them whenever you can. I went out for a little run today, and before I started I stood under this beautiful old tree and watched the wind toss the limbs and leaves back and forth. <\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\">\n  <iframe src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=x987pws\"\n    style=\"width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; overflow:hidden; border:none;\"\n    allowfullscreen\n    title=\"Dailymotion Video Player\"\n    allow=\"web-share\"><br \/>\n  <\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And then I ran two miles. I did not think of that tree again, which is a shame. It probably would have made the time pass more quickly, which would have been good, since I run slow. And it would have been less painful, since that&#8217;s a thing when you haven&#8217;t been running, and i haven&#8217;t been running. I should have thought of that tree. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re in this beautiful phase of things &#8212; and I suppose all of phases have their beauty &#8212; where the aging, shifting, changing seasons still have these beautiful colors we&#8217;re used to, but take on new hues. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct24\/oct86.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The bees are unbothered, still going about their work with no additional hurry. Just the same amount of hurry they&#8217;ve always known. The same degree of purpose.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct24\/oct87.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The still bright vibrant colors, the weathered, weary look. It captures a mood. Feeling it, but still here, still with our own purpose, still glorious. Still.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct24\/oct88.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We all feel like that from time to time, I suppose. It can be beautiful. <\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it was just the day. The angle of the sun this time of year, while we&#8217;re now so aware of being cheated, is simply stunning. This photo means nothing the rest of the year, maybe it means little now, but it&#8217;s playful, isn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s full of expectation. It&#8217;s waiting for something. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct24\/oct89.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I decided to try a little ride in the late afternoon, to see if I could pedal the run out of my legs. I went out seven miles into a headwind, the slowest, ploddingest ride I can muster. It was going so poorly I was able to compose this photo. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct24\/oct90.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But then I turned around, and I put up perhaps some of the fastest splits I&#8217;ve done in &#8230; a while. Maybe that&#8217;s what makes the season, and days like today. It&#8217;s a sense from somewhere deep, deep enough you can&#8217;t ignore. So we try to absorb it through our eyes and skin and all of our senses because &#8230; we know. We know it&#8217;s only for the short while.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a lovely day. Was it a lovely day for you? It was a lovely day here. We&#8217;re in a nice long stretch of them, and it&#8217;s worth soaking up a little part of them whenever you can. 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