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Thursday, November 22, 2001

Ah, The Smells of Turkey Day

I got up this morning and thought I'd better go for at least a short run before heading home to Mom's house and gorging on turkey, potatoes, stuffing, cranberries, salad, buns, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, etc, and it was quite surprising how many delicious aromas I encountered on my jaunt through the neighborhood at 9:00am today. I was enticed on every street!
This brought me back to the realization (which doesn't occur often enough) that changing your scale of experience is worth the effort. If your scale is always the scale of speeding around in a car, the scenery and surroundings blur past you. On bike or foot, you observe more, connect more, appreciate more and this is a good thing. Try it.
Mom put on a great feast today -- everything was awesome. Thanks Mom. We also watched "The Philadelphia Story" and I got a kick out of it. I dig old movies.

Posted by Jeremy at 11:10 PM