Lunch with GG

Today I went to downtown Chicago to meet a friend I had not seen in a few years. GG and I did our graduate studies at NU at the same time. We had a nice lunch at Khyber Pass, shared stories about the people we had shared cubicles with for many a year. All of us have other interests now, and it is always fascinating to hear the progression in our friends' lives. On the other side, age is taking its pound of flesh, and we seem to suffer from a variety of ailments.
GG, thanks for the great times at NU, and thanks for the lunch.

What is romance without running?

Romance and Running are inter-twined. One cannot appreciate romance unless one appreciates movement.
As I was out running today I thought about some of the interesting ladies I have met over the years, and the romances that might have blossomed...

As John Cougar once sang..
Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone...

or as the Boss sang,

Someday girl I don't know when were gonna get to that place
Where we really want to go and well walk in the sun
But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run

Chicago Marathon tomorrow

The Chicago Marathon is on again tomorrow. I am hoping that I can train and perhaps run a half marathon next year, and then consider running a marathon again.
After running a marathon, the whole body could be in pain, but the mind and soul are ecstatic. One feels a great sense of spanning a vast distance. Quite different from the sensation one gets when a romance goes awry- a sensation of a gulf that spans a vast distance, a mind and soul in pain. Perhaps it is just two sides of the same coin....