Summer Runs & Complete Surprises

Running in the summertime South

A field of sunflowers in the afternoon heat

In Georgia the summer heat makes the asphalt shimmer more days than it does not and afternoon thunderclouds blacken the sky to pour fat drops down onto steaming parking lots until abruptly rolling away, leaving the sun and the water to wrap everything and everyone up into thick, heavy, quilted air. I swear it’s…