Running in Circles for Helga & a Recipe to Aid a Moving Benedition

(Helga Racing)
I started running in 2000.  I'd put on my ratty sweats, roughly scrape my hair into a pony tail, check to see that mom was comfortable and then I'd walk the half block down 26th street to North Fillmore, cross the street and then I'd start what had become a moving prayer.

I ran a 1/4 mile loop over and over, a loose circle lined with childhood memories:  That's where the Carreys lived until 7th grade, and the Rattigans were nestled down that side street until sometime in 4th grad...