Levy Trail 5K

I walked the Levy Trail 5K early this afternoon in 49:31 and went through three miles in 48:19. At about one and a quarter miles, I had an experience with a blonde-colored chihuahua, just as I crossed 47th Street, headed south on the northern edge of the Levy shopping district. He was headed north, and it looked as if he might run in front of traffic in front of me, but I turned to a truck headed east and the driver slowed it to a stop. The dog then ran to me, and I picked him up. After about thirty seconds of consideration, I dropped him into the backyard of the T-Shirt Shop. There are frequently three or four yapping dogs in that particular fenced area. For maybe two seconds, I considered taking him home. He never once barked, wore no collar, and seemed perfectly at ease in my arms.

Paragraph(s) of the day from A Different Closet

Due to a summer and fall of commentary, Keith was excited as he walked into the foyer of the New Covenant Church Gymnasium and Special Events Center toward the basketball court. Months earlier, Karen Shoemaker told him her father had insisted the court be made to look like the Boston Garden and that the builders had done a masterful job. Anyone he met who learned of Keith’s basketball past and knew of his  connection with the Shoemakers mentioned the gym. He heard echoes of balls bouncing and men’s voices flow from the court as he walked up from the entryway, sounds common to the exterior of every basketball gym Keith had ever approached. He stepped into the darkness of the court’s perimeter and immediately acknowledged the accuracy of what he’d heard. He thought it looked like a perfectly preserved or restored antique. The single tier’s five-thousand yellow wooden chairs and parquet floor combined to reflect almost exactly what he had seen when he watched the Celtics televised from Boston.