What If Your Body Quits Before You Do?

I can live without running. There are other ways to get exercise, other ways to find solitude. And I’ll get another dog. We’ll go out together in the late afternoons. She won’t care that I’m not running.

But mainly what I’m trying to quit is arguing with the body. I’m not going to win, and there are better things to do. Better to take happiness in some other form: the green shadows, the soft footsteps, the silence.