“It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.” Roald Dahl - The Witches.

 

Happy Halloween!

(daily ex., walk 2.6 miles, ytd walk 804.2 miles, slow run 1 mile to save streak, ytd run 1295.1 miles)

Who knows why we were taught to fear the witches and not those who burned them alive

 "It was not witches who burned.

It was women.

Women who were seen as

Too beautiful

Too outspoken

Had too much water in the well (yes, seriously)

Who had a birthmark

Women who were too skilled with herbal medicine

Too loud

Too quite

Too much red in her hair

Women who had a strong nature connection

Women who danced

Women who sung

or anything else, really.

ANY WOMAN WAS AT RISK BURNING IN THE SIXTEEN HUNDREDS

Sisters testified and turned on each other when their babies were held under ice.

Children were tortured to confess their experiences with “witches” by being fake executed in ovens.

Women were held under water and if they float, they were guilty and executed.

If they sunk and drowned they were innocent.

Women were thrown off cliffs.

Women were put in deep holes in the ground.

The start of this madness was years of famine, war between religions and lots of fear. The churches said that witches, demons and the devil did exist and women were nothing but trouble. As we see even today, there is often a scape goat created, and the chaos escalated in Sweden when the Bible became law and everything that did not line up with what the church said became lethal. The Bible fanaticism killed thousands of women.

Everything connected to a women became feared, especially her sexuality.

It became labelled as dark and dangerous and was the core of the witch trials through out the world.

Why do I write this?

Because I think the usage of words are important, especially when we are doing the work to pull these murky, repressed and forgotten about stories to the surface. Because knowing our history is important when we are building the new world. When we are doing the healing work of our lineages and as women. To give the women who were slaughtered a voice, to give them redress and a chance of peace.

It was not witches who burned.

It was women."

Author: Fia Forsström

 

(daily ex. update, morning walk 3.5 miles, ytd walk 801.6 miles,  early a.m. tm run 1.5 miles, ytd run 1294.1 miles)

Good advice from Sally McRae, ultrarunner

 Strengthen your arms.

Carry each other.

Strengthen your mind.

Be kind to one another.

Strengthen your legs.

Go the extra mile.

Choose strength my friend.

Choose strength

Yellowrunner

(daily ex. update, a.m. dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 798.1 miles.  pm run 3.4 miles, ytd run 1292.6 miles)

“when the world tells you to shrink, expand.” ― Elaine Welteroth, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.5 miles, ytd walk 795.1 miles. pm run 3.1 miles, ytd run 1289.2 miles)

My favorite color is....October

                            The view from my front door

(daily ex. update, walk dog 3.2 miles in a.m., ytd walk 791.6 miles.  pm tm run 3.8 miles, ytd run 1286.1 miles)

 

          My views on my walk with my dog this morning....one of the last beautiful days of autumn.

(ex. update, walk dog 3.5 miles in a.m., ytd walk 788.4 miles.  pm tm run 5.1 miles, ytd run 1282.3 miles)

 

(daily ex. update, a.m. dog walk 3.2 miles, ytd walk 784.9 miles,  pm jog 1.6 streak saver miles, ytd run 1277.2 miles)

 

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 781.7 miles.  pm tm run 6.7 miles, ytd run 1275.6 miles)

 (daily ex. update, walk 7 miles, ytd walk 778.7 miles, run 1.1 miles on tm, streak saver mile, ytd run 1268.9 miles)

It feels like this these days....LOL

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 771.7 miles,  pm tm run 5 miles, ytd run 1267.8 miles)

“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.” ― Anaïs Nin

  (ex. update, walk 0.7 miles, ytd walk 768.7, pm run 1.3 miles to save streak, ytd run 1262.8 miles)

“In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.” W. H. Auden

(ex update, walk 4 miles, ytd walk 768 miles.  afternoon tm run 3.2 miles, ytd run 1261.5 miles. In the evening I joined a bundt cake mile, eat a mini bundt cake, run/walk a lap around the track, eat another mini bundt cake, run/walk another lap, repeat times 4.  I'm really full)

....or when I read a good pun

 

(daily ex. update, dog walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 764 miles.  pm run 1.4 miles, ytd run 1258.3 miles.  ytd run and walk total 2022.3 miles, so I accomplished my run/walk 2021 miles in 2021)

 

(daily ex. update, dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 762.5 miles.  pm tm run 3.1 miles, ytd run 1256.9 miles)

 

(ex. update, walk my dog 2 miles, walk ytd  759.8 miles,  pm tm run 4 miles ytd run 1253.8 miles)

 

(daily ex. update, walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 757.8 miles.  run 14.2 miles, ytd run 1249.8 miles)

 

(morning jog 1.5 miles and walk 1 mile,  ytd walk 755.3 miles.  ytd run 1235.6 miles)

 

(daily ex, update, walk 2 miles, ytd walk 754.3 miles.  morning jog with dog 3.5 miles, ytd run 1234.1 miles)

 

 

(daily ex update, morning run with dog 1.5 miles plus walk 1 miles,  ytd run 752.3 miles, ytd run 1230.6 miles)

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.” Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina, 1873.

 

     Autumn is here.  It was a gray, damp, chilly day and I had no choice but to turn on the furnace.

(ex. update, walk 1.3 miles, ytd walk 751.3 miles.  morning run 2.2 miles with my dog, ytd run 1229.1 miles)

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.” — Oscar Wilde

      What a great quote for Indigenous Peoples' Day!

(I felt the need for a resting day, am walk dog 0.5 miles, ytd walk 750 miles, pm tm 3.1 miles, ytd run 1226.9 miles)

 

(daily ex, am dog walk 2 miles ytd walk 749.5 miles,  pm tm run 2.5 miles, ytd run 1223.8 miles)

Imagine all the people, living life in peace

 Happy Birthday John Lennon

(daily ex., walk 2.6 miles, ytd walk 747.5 miles, tm run pm 1.5 streak saver miles, ytd run 1221.3 miles)

A great quote......

 

(daily ex, dog walk 1.2 miles, ytd walk 744.9 miles. tm run 26.2 miles, virtual Boston, it took me 5 hrs, 30min, 27 sec., ytd run 1219.8 miles)

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” ― John Muir

I received my covid vaccine booster today.  Yay.

(daily ex. update, walk dog 2.5 miles, ytd walk 743.7 miles. pm tm run 1.5 streak saver miles, ytd run 1193.6 miles.)

Worth sharing again because it is always true

 (daily ex update, morning walk 3 miles, ytd walk 741.2 miles, pm tm run 5 miles, ytd run 1192.1 miles)

 

(daily ex. update, walk 5.5 miles, ytd walk 738.2 miles, pm tm run 3.5 miles, ytd run 1187.1 miles)

 “Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”

― Neil Gaiman, A Game of You

(daily ex. update, walk 3 miles, ytd walk 732.7 miles, morning run with dog 4 miles, ytd run 1183.6 miles)

 

(daily ex., walk 4.5 miles, ytd walk 729.7 miles, run 3.5 miles, ytd run 1179.6 miles)

It always takes a couple of miles first though......

 

(a.m. tm run 1.5 miles, ytd run 1175.9 miles.  walks 5.1 miles, ytd walk 725.2 miles.)

When you're a kid, you don't realize you're also watching your mom and dad grow up.

 

(daily ex. update, dog walk in a.m. 3.2 miles, ytd walk 720.1 miles. pm jog 1.6 miles to save streak, ytd run 1174.4 miles)