This morning’s run felt like nothing special, and when I got home it turned out to have been my best time since late July. I think I’ve proven that I have absolutely no capacity to judge how well, how fast I’m running.
Coffee and hot breakfast, cleaned up and went to Morning Prayer, stopped at the Cooperative to pick up staples, and now home with a cup of coffee, hammering away at my overdue essay. I’ ve begun rewriting it from the beginning, because with the beginning I’d made I was chasing every topic into the tall grass and researching the relevant background in depth. This was invited as a brief introduction, though, not a comprehensive e deep dive. Likewise, I need to cover five or six centuries in 8000 words; the essay won’t do its work by leaning into depth and comprehensiveness. So in this version, I’m trying to express myself with a degree of precision and clarity commensurate with the assignment, and to back off the temptation to footnote everything. I promise you that the background reading is fascinating, but I won’t have time to introduce you to it in this wordcount.
Plus, koff koff, the editor wrote me last night to remind me that they’re holding the next issue till I get the ms to them. I should be writing instead of blogging.