What an amazing Easter Sunday. The cherry blossoms are a gift that is an annual wonder. The weather was perfect. Today’s 8-miler was exactly what I needed. 
In the midst of the run, as I stopped at the MLK Memorial and read the side of the statue, “Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope,” I looked around at the people, slowly but surely restarting a way of living that resembles life before the pandemic, I started to tear up.
This past year has been so difficult, for so many people in so many different ways. It feels good to feel optimism again. Thanks to everyone—from the front-line workers to the scientists who brought us the vaccines to family and friends—who got us from last March to this April.
Happy Easter to all who celebrate, and here’s to charting our future. #lovingDC
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