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Fictography #17: If Rocky Can Do It…
/FICTOGRAPHY/ def. — The intersection of photography (submitted by readers) and fiction (written by me!). You’ll have to forgive my absence last week. I attended a conference from Thursday through Sunday and didn’t have the chance to write my weekly creative FICTOGRAPHY post. I’m back now, and this week, I’m using a photograph my husband took in Philadelphia, PA. Since it’s my husband’s photo and he’s an exercise-aholic, in addition to partaking in several triathlons, I had him in mind when I wrote this (not that it’s about him necessarily). Lots of folks are fitness buffs, challenging themselves in triathlons, races, half-marathons, tough mudders, and marathons. I am not one…
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Brilliant Finishes
If you want to be inspired, stand at the finish line of a triathlon and watch the people come in, one by one, at their own paces, pride and accomplishment written all over their faces. As someone who has absolutely no interest in ever participating in one of these physical contests can attest, it even makes me say….hmmmm…could I? The endurance and determination these folks have is tremendous. They rise to the challenge and the reward is self-satisfaction. They do it because they want to push themselves and the result is a brilliant finish. There are so many brilliant finishes in life: the neck and neck horse race where one…
