Running

Was able to get my first run in this morning since the start of Selichot.  Just 20 minutes, but it felt good to get out there again.

Thinking about something I read in Seth Godin's The Icarus Deception.  In it, he talks about not lamenting or regretting whatever it is you did or didn't do in your life that you think you should have.  According to him, everything that happened to you and was perpetuated by you (both the good and the bad) is all part of that big artist's tapestry you've created...known as your life.

Harry Potter really is a better read the second time around.  Especially it seems The Order of the Phoenix, which was probably the most heavily intricate/complicated of all the books.  I learned a while back that J.K. Rowling got rejected by eight publishers for The Sorcerer's Stone, and was on the verge of giving up.  She then got an encouragement from a little eight-year old girl who had read it and liked it.  Scholastic Books, not a very big publisher at the time, picked up and well, the rest is magical history.

Shabbat Shalom