Run Fani run!!! Hurry up! Let'sGo! Come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This evening i took Euphemia, Theophani and Xena out for a quick run before we picked up our pizza and met Elias and Stavro-nikitas back home for 'movie night'. To say the least Theophani prefer not to run with the el'dictator, her mom (me), commonly referred to as Tank the Shredder Evans [not complimentary]. Still she ran will run and will learn to love it....or will learn to suck it up. Mia kept saying "oh no! Zee Zee (Xena)... Gigi (theophani) gone"!!! You would think Theophani would run faster just so she doesn't have to watch  me running from the rear.

SYNTHEOPOIESIS † ΣΥΝΘΕΟΠΟΙΗΣΗΣ Jn1034

Controversial YES. Bold YES. Enlightened YES.

This voice of anonymous elders who proclaim their Orthodoxy, allegiance to the Ecumenical Throne and unyieldingly support all who suffer silently; have always helped me to destigmatize and love. I still am unable currently to discard my prejudice but I am being refashioned, reformed and perfected. I find that judgement or more precisely condemnation is ugly and proves only how far I am from the mark, from my Chrismation. I don't embrace sin or the illicit but I can embrace and call to my prayers those who have no one to love them; those who settle for physical relations lacking intimacy; for a those who suffer in isolation captives in their own minds. Jn1034's counsel public and private has always been good medicine. The gift of language exceeds my expectation time and again. Though their public and open support of the disenfranchised, the powerless and outcast is at times provocative they press on. They are there fighting the good fight for the lost, the cold and the needy. Only when  having defenders during warfare can we take rest in peace. Christ is risen and much gratitude!!!

Running Par Excellence

(Euphemia sleeping but not in her ironman)

Keeping it real and old school as soon as the sunset I hit the road for a quick, relaxed run with Euphemia. I haven't run with her in the ironman stroller in months and it was a new adventure on a familiar road. She was sleeping by the end and I am beginning again to be the run. Running is simple when we don't complicate the process. Moving enough to breath and grow without beating the fun out of it.

glorious overcast overcoming

I opted to run after 7pm today because of the obvious heat. I ran during the sunset which was understated because the sky was overcast. For a while I could see the sun trying to pierce the evening skyline with no success. The evening had a wonderful cool breeze. Xena was a great companion and running mascot. Her behavior was excellent and I have rigged the leash to wrap around my shoulder and waist so my gait is unimpeded but she is well guided and safely controlled. I'm hoping this tethering will fine tune her trail running which hit a major rode block last season when she ran off to chase something wild a deer or armadillo I'm not sure. Stavro encouraged Xena to chase squirrels which quickly translated to cats. I've spent many runs undoing this bad habit and because of it she is leashed even on trails so sad. Anyway today was a strong and consistent five mile run. It was the best I could hope for: great weather, great company, great gait. The only weakness was 3/4 of  the way through the run I grew anxious about finishing up. I forced my patience and my joy quickly returned. Once I committed to the process about 4/10ths of a mile in and then again at 9/10ths I was flowing along effortlessly.