Crying and running is like tingling and shampooing: When you feel it, you know its working.
My friend was telling me about the rapper Darryl “DMC” McDaniel’s love of Sarah McLachlan. He tells his story in episode 204 of The Moth Radio Hour. I found it a little unbelievable. Sarah McLachlan? But when I reflected on my own emotional state, I got it. The other day in the seventeenth mile of a 19 mile run, I almost lost all control. I was on the razor’s edge of hysterical sobbing… only the shame of being in public allowed me to reel it back in. Minutes before, I had been listening to a funny This American Life, about superpowers, laughing out loud. But then that program ended, and the song, “Wake Up,” by Arcade Fire, had come on… That line at the end, “With my lightning bolts a-glowing, I can see where I am going.” This close.
Snorks, Owning the world and wrestling it at every turn.
Truisms:
“When you feel it you know it’s working”
“Whoever smelt it dealt it”