Tarmac Meditations…a note to a friend on his long sought and now imminent 24hr run

What makes a man is to take a step…then another step…it’s always the same step…but you have to take it.   Antoine de St. Exupe´ry by way of my dad when I was an unhappy, drifitn 17 year old and I asked him what he read when he was my age. I could not figure out how to talk with him so I thought if i read what he read we might meet up. It was about as close to him as I  ever got, home to a sadness that lives on. The words though, the times they came from, the way in which they came to me, shared as they were  with equal parts love and concern,  illuminate  an abiding faith in the human spirit…these are from him to me to you, to any of you who set out not knowing the why of things but only that it is time for the doing of them. Knowing that when a friend is running out beyond his comfort zone, we are together where ever else we may be…it is always one step, then another…that the journey  from where we were to where ever we are going enriches all of us…WE, all of us,  are going with you…with you, along side you, up ahead in the uncertain dawn…the inspiration and the giants of which you speak are you and we are grateful.