Day 4,256—First night of Hanukkah—

 

        Two shootings in the news this weekend were not pleasant to read about. The one that happened in Australia at a Hanukkah festival is especially jarring, but at the same time, there have been so many terrible things that have happened this year. I am just tired of being upset all the time. I would like to take a break from thinking about all the terrible things that are happening all the time. I don’t know if there have been more shootings this year than ever before, but it feels like there have been a lot.

        It was below freezing today, but I remember thinking the cold didn’t bother me a lot because of how I was dressed. My eyelashes were the only thing continually exposed, but it was a short enough run at an easy pace. My leg is still bothering me, but my perspective on it has changed somewhat today. I realized how much it didn’t bother me as much as it could, and I do need to heal and should probably do more to do some restorative care at the same time. I believe my body is healing, and I am running as carefully as I can. I still want to run a lot, which just means going slow.       

When we told Felix he would get to eat chocolate coins, he became so excited. When we got the dreidels out, Felix had taken a coin and eaten it with the paper. We let him have one, but we were never able to spin the dreidel without both of them grabbing all the coins and Felix attempting to grab one and run out of the room.