Skip to content
pre COVID-19
- Wake up.
- Drink Coffee. Eat Oatmeal.
- Get Kids to Go to School.
- Dress. Stretch. Tie Shoelaces.
- Go Outside.
- Head to the Gorge and Run.
- Pay attention. Get Distracted. Notice some things, ignore others.
- Return home and write about it.
during COVID-19 (early 2020)
- Wake up.
- Breathe.
- Drink Coffee. Eat Breakfast.
- Breathe.
- Dress. Stretch. Tie Shoelaces.
- Breathe.
- Head to the Gorge no later than 8:45 to avoid crowds. Run. Stay at least 6 feet away from others. Mostly run in the street, or the grass.
- Pay attention to your distance from others. Do not touch your face or wipe the sweat off your forehead. Keep your gloves on.
- Try to notice the river or the birds or the sky. Try to forget about pandemics for a minute.
- Return home. Wash your hands, take a shower.
- Breathe.
- Look up how many people have died in MN and the US today. Put this data in the heading of your log entry. Write about the run.
during COVID-19, early 2021
- Wake up.
- Stretch.
- Make coffee. Avoid the news.
- Check Facebook, poets.org for the poem of the day, Twitter.
- Wake up kids.
- Eat Oatmeal.
- Dress. Put on shoes in basement.
- Bike on bike stand, watch an episode of Dickinson.
- Run on treadmill, listen to audio book or playlist.
- Go outside and record moment of sound.
- Write about Dickinson or my audio book or what I’m thinking about. Post my moment of sound on my log.