May 21, 2001: Call me Running Eagle feather

Exhaustion is a mechanism that feeds messages of warning—being the fool that it is, the body respects the exhaustion and decides to sit down. I see that reaction as being lazy! Your body is designed to take hits—even if I’m out of breath and the legs refuse to walk…the cool Georgia clay biting my exposed back and inability to move tells the tiny spirit inside that it traveled farther than most normal quitters.