Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Burns Park Loop/Levy Trail Loop

We Geezers walked the Burns Park Loop this morning in 1:40:51. It was 33°F when we started. The gang was composed of Ron and Elaine, Sandy Venable, Brass, Rosemary, and Chrissy Ferguson. I told Bill there's a decent chance I'll be sore tomorrow.
Early this evening I walked the Levy Trail North in 34:43.

Paragraph(s) of the day from A Different Closet
James Shoemaker married Ellen Millar in June of 1949 between their junior and senior years at Baylor University. He remembered they shared a twin bed for nearly a year in their collegiate poverty. They made the typical progression through bed sizes but for some reason stopped at queen until 1982 when Ellen persuaded him to purchase the king they lay in, three feet apart on this wintery January night. As was frequently the case when he relented to her requests, he wished he had let her have her way sooner. He was able now for the first time in his adult life to lie with both feet supported by a mattress. Noise from the party still buzzed within him, like road sounds that cling after a long drive completed just before bedtime, and Shoemaker lay in the quiet darkness, regretful for his reaction when he learned of Keith’s possible congressional race. He had asked in a consciously angered tone why he was not told earlier, before Keith left. Why had Keith not told him? He then insisted on calling Keith or Ronald Hardman or both, but Ellen and Karen in tandem insisted he not.

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