The Indomitable Human Spirit

I've been doing a lot of catch up this week - letter writing and reading. For a while I was getting letters too frequently to respond quickly, but the flow has slowed down, giving me a chance to equal the out box to the in box. My reading has been two newspapers daily, usually a bit of a magazine and, currently, about twenty-five pages of James Joyce. Right now I'm still losing ground in my reading. My mini-library is growing faster than I can get cover-to-cover. But that's not a bad thing (except where space is concerned) because I love reading.

By night I read my daily devotional, have my quiet time (although it seems that I'm the only quiet one), then read Lee Strobel until 'til my eyes drop.



I ran the farthest I've ran in four years today. At the afternoon rec I managed to pump out fourteen laps - about four miles on our over sized grass track. Along with soccer, reading, and camping, one of my other loves is running. I've been running since middle school and even completed the Great Ethiopian Run - at 7000-8500 ft, the world's highest 10K - in forty minutes. Since graduating from high school I've slacked off and haven't run as much as I would have liked. I'm going to use my current lack of obligations to pump my legs as much as I can.

There are a few blessings in prison, especially if you look for them.


"We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or hump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable."
- Sir Roger Bannister