Running

My throat hurt and my lungs burned; I had just come back in from a run in the neighborhood. Everything was quiet as singing angels and the sky was a dark grey from the city lights. Some of my neighbors still have their Christmas lights up and they glowed eerily in the gloom. Passed the pond and was startled by some stick that could have been an alligator or swamp monster to my over-active imagination. My body out of shape, each foot thudding rythmically on the sidewalk, my lungs took in the cold air. There's something about running, whether it's physical: the endorphins, or mental: the fact of letting go of your body, that we are hard-wired to enjoy.
So this was a day of running, or haitus from said debt, and debting schemes. There are times when we need to go at a problem guns blazing, and other times when we should just take it a day at a time. Other times we should run. Bush seems to be doing this by putting it to a forefront that he'll solve the national debt by 2012 and considering the opening of congress, taking attention away from the idea that we may send more US troops to Iraq. World leaders and coal miners use the same tactic. Though we run from our destination, really home becomes our destination. What have we gained for all the exercise? Strength. A healthy body and a beating heart. An experience that will help us in the long run to live a happy, fulfilled life.