Prayers for Boston

I'm not entirely sure what is going on this week. If I left it up to my grandma to decide, I'm sure she would say "it must be something with the moon". Most of the time I have a tendency to agree with her, but this has to be more than the moon.

Eight days ago started off with work travel to Louisiana. I was coming home to write more about the crazy eating in another state. I think every meal there you could get fried stuff with cream sauce. Like in Oklahoma it was fried stuff with gravy. It was a pretty stressful three days from a work perspective and it was coupled with no workout or running for those three days. It was a perfect situation for me to self-destruct, but I made it.

Then over the weekend, off spring #2 fell and took a bump on the head. We made two trips to the emergency room over the weekend. Everything is good now, but that's possibly the most stress we've had around here in LONG time. We haven't really slept since Friday, and guess what.... no running for therapy over the weekend either. So another opportunity to self-destruct, but so far I had managed.

But then Monday..... Honestly folks... this is something I DO NOT understand. I just don't see what makes someone target such a celebratory event. For me, there is nothing more inspiring than the Boston marathon. Its the 117th running; everyone there has run a qualifying event to get there; they are way psyched and proud of themselves for being there, so many emotions of pride and success, and then this. The tragedy and chaos we saw unfold on TV, radio, social media, was just insane.

I watched the coverage for a while, and some of the pictures were really graphic. This hit me pretty hard, and I think it hits everyone pretty hard. This is a sport we love. These were not soldiers, or politicians... these were every day people like you and me, doing what they love, and being supported by friends, loved ones, and other random strangers.

I'm sure, like me, many of you knew someone or lots of someone's in Boston. I searched Facebook and twitter to make sure everyone we knew was ok. We were fortunate that way.

This is still a tragedy I will never understand. There are a lot of political interjections you can make here about what should have been done, and who is to blame, and "if they had only done...," but that's just not helpful, and it won't bring anyone back. I am just hoping the investigators are allowed to do their job and we all can have some resolution and peace with this, especially for the three families that lost loved ones.

God bless all of you and keep running....

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