A mother runner

Thank you

Georgia Rhodes

for your amazing ideas and tips to add rest to my day. Thank you to my friend Carrie-Anne for the pep talk this week. Thank you new subscribers, uriahellsworth,

Al Wayman

, Andrea V,

Rahti Gorfien

, Blue23231,

Gemma’s Substack

and Mike.

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                      Ordinary Run 

I am a mother runner
An ordinary runner
I get to choose 
Each day 
Where my
Sneakers will land
How many miles 
Or minutes 
will I go?
What time?
In the dark, 
In the light—
Alone or with friends 
No matter 

I have an advantage 
Some women 
Don’t have these
Choices
They aren’t allowed
to run 
and if they do 
it's in secret  
Could you imagine? 
I'm in disbelief…
yet it's true. 

I lace up my sneakers 
I step outdoors into freedom
I pay attention to nature
I won’t take it for granted   
I get to move my body 
And no one 
can tell me 
I can’t. 

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