water (This is good.)

Published: Wed, 01/29/25

Updated: Wed, 01/29/25

** early * sustenance * 2025 * levitation **

water (This is good.) (drawing of 2 water bottles)

WARMING UP TO RUN INTERVALS, INAUGURATION WEEK (woman: What is "running intervals"?) carolyn: Running hard for shortish distances with rest in between.) / (woman: Why? / carolyn: To eventually be able to run faster for longer.)

(Outside of YWCA building in the dark. Crescent moon in black sky, bike parked at bike rack, half-mast American flag. Windows glow light orange.)

We're wearing the clothes we laid out last night / We're tying our shoes. / (carolyn in lockerroom with her belongings strewn about, standing very wobbly on one foot tying her shoe.)

We're trying to stand on one foot. Upsetting one another's balance as we move to right ourselves.

(Drawing of 5 or so people trying to stand on one foot, looking serious and tippy and disorganized. Floor here and throughout is green with white lane lines - an indoor track.))

(Four other people trying to stand on one foot, looking precarious. In background, windows with dark sky.))

We're looking at the wall, swinging our legs.

(Woman with long braid facing wall, leg swinging left to right like a floppy pendulum.)

We're looking down the track, swinging our legs. (Curly-haired person standing with one hand on the wall, swinging one leg front to back like a floppy pendulum. In background, window with grey sky.))

We walk across the floor on our toes. (4 people walking on their toes in various odd and awkward ways.)

We turn around and walk back on our heels. (Two people — bottom halves only — walking on their heels looking pretty goofy. One is wearing very tall tube socks.)

And when we turn sideways and gallop, all of a sudden our steps sound light and ready. (feet in air, mid-gallop) / Together we are tapping the floor — dozens of, hundreds of steps, and in between taps we are in the air, and that adds up to strength. (1 set of feet galloping / 2 sets of feet galloping)

We'll run our best, and sometimes we'll feel fast. (About 10 people running along the track, various body types but all moving in the same direction for a change. A couple of water bottles beside the track.))

Most of the time we'll feel we're way behind. / (3 sweaty people, including probably Carolyn, looking a little stressed, drinking from water bottles)

The whole time, our muscles and lungs and hearts will be growing. (A few people, including probably Carolyn, running, drops of sweat flying off of them.)

We'll run and rest, run and rest, until it's time to stop. (Zoomed-out image of indoor track, several people carrying water bottles and other stuff, saying goodbye, stretching. Big windows with cool sunrise into faintly blue sky.)

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