soul sisters unite, young and old...

so here we are, proud and loud after our triumphant race. mind you, it was no 26.2 but mada and i felt very accomplished. i wore my soulsistersunite.com t-shirt and she wore her dave lemen rocks t-shirt.
i was so excited, the air was cold and mada was holding my hand so tight. mada said i kept repeating the same things over and over, i just couldn't help it.
part of her strategy (although i was not aware of this at the time) was to let me hold her hand and drag her through the one mile race.

so i pretty much did drag her along during the first three blocks and then out of no where she broke free from my hand and started to run as fast as she could. i yelled, "go mada, go!" and then followed her zig zags. three more blocks and we were back to holding hands. the next two consisted of me singing songs to her and moments of skipping. with the finish line in sight, we broke hands and sprinted to the end. i thought about when she was a little baby, you could see the fire and wonder in her eyes. like she was trapped in her developing body, she couldn't wait to run.

i pray i can be her soulsister. to hold her hand and drag her through her teenage years, to encourage her when it's time to break free, to sing her songs to get her through, to celebrate the finish lines along the way, to share in the journey of her life.

sleep well soulsisters everywhere! thank you for your warm welcome to the blogsophere...