I can’t help but smile and feel a sense of modest pride when I remember the look on my friend’s face as the 5 children (ages 1-6) sitting at my dinner table called out “More tofu please! More green beans please! More quinoa please!” OK, so the 1 year old yelled something more like “Aaahhhhh!” but her message was crystal clear. My friend, and fellow mom, was in disbelief that I got them to not only eat a fresh healthy meal without bribery or threats, but they were actually begging for more.
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Barefoot Running Frenzy
I recently started reading Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and The Greatest Race The World Has Never Seen, by Christopher McDougall. From the moment I dove into this book I’ve been itching to get out for a trail run. I read about how the greatest runners in the world run for the love of it; for “sheer joy.” McDougall describes running as “…mankind’s first art, our original act of inspired creation…combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.” Who wouldn’t want to run after reading that?
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