Truffle Shuffle

I will not surrender to culture, I'm fighting with everything in me to be different, to be weird, because "normal" is not working.

- Craig Groeschel

I raced on Sunday at an event called the Truffle Shuffle. It's a race that benefits Big Brothers - Big Sisters. The race has been held for the last 14 years. There were over 2000 participants in the three races (fun run, 2-mile, and 4-mile). I placed 7th in the 4 mile with a time of 22:52.

Tuesday Mallory and I went to Portland. I had the opportunity to go to the Portland Trailblazer vs. OKC Thunder basketball game. The pastor of our church has his masters in physical therapy and still works in the industry part time. One of his best friends from college is the head physical therapist for the Thunder. Small world. He lives in Edmond and goes to Life Church. The game was great, the Thunder won and Mallory had a great time in Portland.

We pulled into town around noon or so and the sun miraculously showed it's head. It was such a beautiful afternoon to do some walking and shopping. Mallory is on the hunt for some "granny grunge" boots and we figured Portland is a good place to start looking. No such luck. But we did find a tasty little Jewish New York style deli where we grabbed lunch. We shared a sandwich on a challah roll and had the motzo ball soup. Anyway, I got to thinking about my previous blog about eating. I've been wondering how some people closest to Mallory and I took that piece of writing. I'm realizing it's very difficult to communicate with a blog. I'm constantly analyzing what I write and hoping people understand what I'm actually feeling or thinking without using the blog as a mechanism to vent my frustrations. I'm certain that happens sometimes because I'm certain I've felt the venting process happen as a sit down to write. Basically, Mallory and I are not militant about our eating habits. We are just taking on some new life practices. We were in an unfamiliar city and ask around for a good place to eat. We ended up in a N.Y. style deli. We weren't frantically searching the city for the best local and organic deli in town, we just wanted to eat so we did. It was good, we enjoyed ourselves, and we had no regrets. Because eating healthy is now apart of our lifestyle, when particular situations come up we can just roll with it. But that is the point, it is now the exception and not norm.

So please don't give up on us and write us off as your weird hippy family member or friend. Unless we come home in a Voltswagon Van (which is a possibility). The bottom line, we're twenty-somethings in some interesting times. We're questioning a lot of things and keeping an open mind about a lot more things. We're making some changes that may not be easily understood and most likely this is just the beginning. But this doesn't mean we're searching for something, in fact, just the opposite. We are found! I can say personally I was searching for a long time. Searching for God knows what. I had built up so many walls to keep people closest to me from figuring out I was a fake. Now, I'm proud of who I am in the Lord. I've learned that there is a manly strength in spirituality that before I would have considered weak or boring in someone else. So if I come off as strong, blunt, or forthright in these blogs it's only because I'm not hiding anymore.

-Trey