Friday July 22, 2005
Back to reality today. Instead of the spiritual Red Rock run it was a mundane jog around the neighborhood with a pit stop at Albertson's to use their chilled water fountain. It was only 96 when I finished today compared to 103 yesterday. Fall's coming.
Weighed in at 155 after run. One pound over ideal weight suggested by doctor. Hard to believe I was 188 last fall when diagnosed with diabetes and 235 when I started running again in 1996.
Something weird happened on the run today. On the way out I came across a slip of paper that looked like a page from my daily Zen Calendar. I ignored it. But on the return trip I had to stop and pick it up. I knew it was mine because I had noted Sue's blackberry address. But more importantly was the Zen saying it had. If I found this 2/10ths of a mile from my house it must be significant, yes? It read:
"All worldly pursuits have but the one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow: acquisitions end in dispertion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births, in death. Knowing this, one should from the very first renounce acquisition and heaping up and building and meeting, and ...set about realizing the Truth. Life is short, and the time of death is uncertain. So apply yourselves to meditation.''
Milarepa
Here's my blood sugar numbers for the last three nights: 101, 107 and 102. My meter must be broken.
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