Happy Thanksgiving!

Interesting.......

OMG.  The snow is already 2 feet deep....up to the top of my big labrador's back.  And it's heavy and wet and still snowing.  I may never get my driveway cleared.

Don't you just love this!

“The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.” ― Joyce Maynard

Why is this so difficult, this letting go...........

     I saw this today.  I need this.

     This one-antlered feisty buck was in my front yard today with several female deer.  He certainly was not afraid of me! Pretty darn cool.

And since snow is the theme of the day, and as I'm sitting here eating a bag of peanut butter pretzels, this came to mind.

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~Maya Angelou

Franz Kafka, the story goes, encountered a little girl in the park where he went walking daily. She was crying. She had lost her doll and was desolate.

Kafka offered to help her look for the doll and arranged to meet her the next day at the same spot.

Unable to find the doll he composed a letter from the doll and read it to her when they met.

‘Please do not mourn me, I have gone on a trip to see the world. I will write you of my adventures.’

This was the beginning of many letters. When he and the little girl met he read her from these carefully composed letters the imagined adventures of the beloved doll. The little girl was comforted.

When the meetings came to an end Kafka presented her with a doll. She obviously looked different from the original doll. An attached letter explained ‘My travels have changed me.’

Many years later, the now grown girl found a letter stuffed into an unnoticed crevice in the cherished replacement doll.

In summary it said:
‘Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.’
- Kafka and the Doll, The Pervasiveness of Loss
                                 Shared from 

                                 Hippie Peace Freaks

Just a reminder from elementary school science class.......

Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.

     I read this today, and agree. Traditions need to be evaluated.

Happy Hug a runner day

    (that's me on the left)

      quote by Lewis Carroll from Alice in Wonderland

Thriller

     I just can't watch this enough.  So much happiness. Be sure to watch until the end. (full clip)

                                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prDjOhQCges

     Unfortunately, one of my hobbies is cooking.

     A friend shared this today on her 50th birthday.  It is worth re-sharing.

A great quote for Veteran's Day

“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”

― Heraclitus of Ephesus, Heraclitus of Ephesus: The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on Nature and Heracliti Ephesii Reliquiae

Race morning.....

     I saw this on FB and it made me laugh.  I guess it is not just me!

     Why I should exercise:

    but mostly why I exercise:

My new mantra for winter

Wow! Just Wow!

I agree. This makes me sad and angry that America has come to this.

This is so true.

     I've been thinking about this a lot lately and was pleased to find it posted on Facebook to share.  You need to do your own research and do the work.  They can't do it for you.

Inaugural Day of the Dead 5K

     It was fun after a very chilly start.  The costumes were pretty amazing....a lot of Frida Kahlo's as well as skeletons.  The turnout was also great for a first-time event.  I saw race bib numbers close to 4000. I'll do it again next year.  And the extra hour of sleeping in before hand was nice.

Time change this weekend

Today is World Vegan Day.

Please: