implacable, delicious, beyond prediction

Oh dear, Another YearScene: January 9th in the afternoon, Seattle, train crossing in the industrial district.How all good things begin - with a lurch, a slightly jarring disruption of flow, noticed or unnoticed.This morning - just about 12 months later (yes, this is one more summation in the coming deluge of perennial summations), I eclipsed 900 miles of running for the year, third best annual total since a personal record-keeping obsession began eight years ago. Maybe less of a lurch and more stubborn shamble.Related personal facts of January 9th, each contributing to the idea of how sea changes (like the subtler, unnoticed train crossings) realign our lives each year:1. A and I still lived on East Helen Street Seattle on January 9th (we were out hunting lampshades that day).2. Yellow Truck was sidelined and I was truckless, as I would be for three more months, the parts for the engine rebuild on their way from Australia.3. I had logged 14 miles of running for the year so far, and the plan was to comb Seattle street by street on my runs of 2012, like usual but more deliberately. By May, as it turned out, I was running in another country, the city of destiny - gritty, dogged old T-Town!Hooray 2012, another good one - implacable, delicious, beyond prediction.