hill running.

this week.
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
…six 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.