Today is not only a historic day for our nation, but on a much, much, much (not enough muches here to show how infinitesimal on the scale) smaller scale, for me and my blogging.

Today I inaugurate a “new” blog, an unfinished person in an unfinished universe.

This blog, Just A (Running) Fool along with two of my other blogs, has moved to an unfinished person (in an unfinished universe) to integrate the parts of my online personality. Over the next few months, the transition will be occurring as I plan to switch to WordPress.org, but in the meantime, archives for this blog before 2008 will be found here at this site. I will provide a link at the “new” blog.

Please update your readers accordingly after visiting the blog and clicking on the Subscribe via Reader button in the top right corner. See you all over there.

In keeping with the breakdown of this blog into three themes, body, mind and soul, I give you my 10 New Year’s resolutions:

Body

1. Run at least three times a week and go to gym at least twice a week.
2. Use WeightWatchers/SparkPeople to assist with weight loss.
3. Run/walk God’s Country Marathon June 6, three days before 40th birthday.

Mind

1. Send out books as promised on Just A (Reading) Fool
2. Combine three existing blogs, Just A (Running) Fool, Just A (Reading) Fool, Journeying with the Saints into this blog, and for less serious blog entries, use Unfinished Rambler. So short version: Cut back to two blogs.
3. Get a job. Now working two part-time jobs, as a newspaper correspondent and at a small town bookstore, but need a full-time job with benefits.

Soul

1. Attend Mass regularly.
2. Pray Morning and Evening Prayer.
3. Become oblate for Mt. Saviour Monastery.

Overall: Spend more (quality) time with The Wife.

Honesty is such a lonely word…

– Billy Joel

Discipline.

Over the last several months, I’ve let myself go physically, mentally and spiritually.

Physically: I haven’t been running. I haven’t been to the gym.

I have been walking almost everywhere I go, close to a mile to a part-time job I’m working, a half-mile to a hospice where I volunteer.

But running a marathon on June 6 for which I haven’t signed up, I’m nowhere close. My goal of running a marathon by the time I’m 40 on June 9.

Mentally: I’ve lost interest in reading over the past few weeks. I continue to procrastinate on…

life, from writing stories to sending out resumes to just have the discipline to get up mornings to run.

Spiritually: over the past few weeks, I’ve fallen out of “doing” the Liturgy of the Hours, which I have been “doing” (herein lies part of the problem: “doing” them) on my way toward becoming a Benedictine oblate of Mount Saviour Monastery. If that is my goal, then I think I may already be in trouble.

In the past, I’ve made grand pronouncements at this point in a post.

No grand pronouncements.

Just a little honesty. On whom I am depending for it?

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