The Spiritual Practice of Running around the Lake (and listening to The Wailin’ Jennys)
Last year, I decided that I will run around Lake Joy five-thousand times before I die. Tina and I live at Lake Joy in rural Washington State in a big white house I have owned for ten years. It is poised on a beautiful sloping acre on the lake with a view of the Cascade Mountains and a grand spacious yard. It is a long drive to anything, though, so I have considered selling it and moving into town off and on. One of those times, I was lying on the front lawn waiting for a cont