i'm hanging with three
of my very favorite
young man
souls.
this morning,
when two of those
young man souls and myself
were out for a blustery
morning stroll,
we did a lot of running.
these boys like the run.
just about everywhere.
even up hills.
(it's truly inspiring).
there was a particular hill
that dropped nearly
straight down
and one little man
insisted on running
up & down it
...6 times.
after having run up it once myself,
i stood at the top
shouting down my encouragement:
"you can do it!
yeah!!
alright!
almost there!"
this little runner man,
i started to notice,
would deliberately stop
multiple times
in the middle of his climb.
he would look straight at me
just waiting--
to hear me call his name
with encouragement.
when i asked him why
he stopped half way up the hill
he responded with a shrug,
"just like to hear
ya call my name."
it's good to be known.
and it's so very good
to be seen.
isn't it?
- n.
