These Shoes...

        I bought a new pair of shoes. They cradled and cushioned my feet so well I could feel nothing but pure comfort.

        So, I started running, and did not stop, heading up the hills and down the hills, past the lake, through the wealthy neighborhoods and by the strip malls and on to the coast where the ocean turned peacefully before me. There, for a moment, I had a choice of direction, forward or back. Should I return to my car and then home or continue up the coast?

I decided to keep going. I worried about nothing, each stride a blissful burst of pedal propulsion taking me further and further away from all that had gone before.

Ad astra per technica,
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