Day 3,979 —1 Run until the Howard Aslinger—

 

I had dreams about the 24-hour run I am doing starting on Friday night. I keep going back and forth from being excited to dreading it, but I do need to practice my solo tent setup. I am thinking about getting some locks I can use for my tent flap. I am not worried about someone taking my stuff, but it would make me mentally feel better.

With this running coming up, I have been barely thinking about Spring Break, but it is nice to think that it is approaching quickly. I wonder if the St. Patrick's Day run is this weekend. I haven’t done that run in years, and now I feel mixed about St. Patrick's Day. Even though I am genetically mostly Irish, I cannot say I feel compelled to do anything special for the day. When you think about what St. Patrick’s did, he drove out the local religious leaders and culture in Ireland and replaced it with Catholicism. I cannot say I think that is a good thing. The only thing I have read about the local religious leaders in Ireland is from a christian perspective. It is crazy to think about all the English persecution of the Irish, basically destroying their language, by not allowing any official business to be done in any language but English. Isn’t it crazy how people use language to drive out other cultures? It is just sad to think about the loss of so much culture and history because of the insistence of dominant cultures to have everyone adapt to them.