Day 4,562—It Goes On, On, and On: 7 Runs until the Rim to River 100—
I fell asleep putting my son to bed last night. I barely made it to the sink to brush my teeth. I checked my phone this morning, and it says it is the anniversary of me being robbed while walking to school from my car 8 years ago. I knew it was coming up, but I forgot that it was today, and there does seem to be something about this week that brings a lot of tragedy. I know there is stuff that happened in the district that will be in the news this week. Also, a student at McCluer North High School was killed this week. When I was robbed 8 years ago, my neighbor died that same morning. Normally, I'd say I'm perpetuating confirmation bias by looking for patterns, but I wasn’t even thinking about it this week until today, so I don’t know. I don’t think it is always healthy to remember tragedy. Still, I think it is good to remind myself that whenever something is bad, things were usually worse at some previous point in my life, and somehow things went on an...
