About that time...

Today was a day of days. Summary:
1. A little excerpt from Rob Bell's Velvet Elvis when I first woke up.
2. Geared up and went to Coor's field to watch SF Giants batting practice. This gave me motivation for-
3. Went running, a little speed work 1600 repeats @7:41/mile with 800 jogs in between.
4. Studied for 8 hours for tests this week.

I wish I could understand the exhilaration of baseball.  It makes me feel like a nerd and a kid because I get so excited. But I think another aspect is that it is something bigger than me. It unites people. It is cool to see players that encourage and inspire kids all over the world.  We all want to touch something bigger than us.  It is easy to fixate that on a team, a player, a singer, any celebrity.  I think celebrities are in some ways our modern day clay idols.

Really, they are people. Just like us.

What we really search for is found anywhere we are, if we slow down enough to listen to it.

Maybe someday I'll get better at slowing down. I really hope so.