None of you will take this advice

 Listen to your body's whispers before they become screams.

(ex. update,  walk 0.6 miles, ytd walk 342.1 miles, pm slow jog 1.6 miles, ytd run 776.4 miles.  Trying to listen to my body more and heal)

Some people are never going to clap for you. Win anyway.

 (daily ex. update, walk 2.2 miles over 2 walks, ytd walk 341.5 miles.  pm tm run 4.5 miles, ytd run 774.8 miles.  Still injured but trying to exercise anyway)

“the Chinese proverb says, when sleeping women wake, mountains move.”

 and oh, how they love the woman who won't take any shit from anyone, until they realize that she won't take any shit from them, either.

(daily ex. update, 2 walks = 2.1 miles,  2 tm jogs = 5 miles,  hip and back still painful but I need to get back into this.   ytd walk 339.3 miles, ytd run 770.3 miles)

 Today won’t be a great day.

It wont be a bad day either.

Today will just be a ‘day’.

24 hours of absolutely everything.

Moments of joy, fear, uncertainty, pride, love.

Flashes of loss, happiness, connection and loneliness.

Moments swathed in every colour of the spectrum of emotion and humanity

Moment by moment.

Wrapped in hours, that make up one day.

JUST A DAY.

You’ve lived through plenty and you’ll live through many more.

So.

Do not entitle this 24 hour parcel as anything other than what it is…

A slice of life.

Go live it.

Moment by moment.

And be ready for them all.

Donna Ashworth

(daily ex. update, 2 walks = 3.6 miles, pm slow tm 3.2 miles, injury starting to heal, still can't bend or twist)

The answer to the abortion debate should never have been whether a fetus is a person, but that a woman is.

 

(ex. update, walk 1.3 miles over 2 walks, pm jog 2.2 miles, injury getting a bit better)

“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.” – John F. Kennedy

 (ex. update, 0.7 mi dog walk, pm slow tm jog 2.7 miles.  Still injured)

I dissent!

(morning slow dog walk 0.7 miles, pm slow tm 2.7 miles, still injured) 

Walk like you have 3000 ancestors walking behind you.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 0.7 miles, pm slow jog 1.1 miles, still injured) 

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle

 (daily ex. update, walk 0.3 miles, pm slow jog 2.2 miles)

Happy first day of summer.....

 Just as the calendar began to say Summer

by Mary Oliver

 

I went out of the schoolhouse fast

and through the garden to the woods,

and spent all summer forgetting what I'd been taught -

 

two times two, and diligence and so forth,

how to be modest, and useful and how to succeed and so forth,

machines and oil and plastic and money and so forth.

 

By fall I had healed somewhat, but was summoned back

to the chalky rooms and the desks to sit and remember

 

the way the river kept rolling it's pebbles,

the way the wild wren sang though they hadn't a penny in the bank,

the way the flowers were dressed in nothing but light.

(still injured, trying to maintain a little exercise but painful, walk dog 0.8 miles, pm slow jog 1.2 miles)

“To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

 (still injured, ex. update slow jog/walk 1.1 miles)

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

 (daily ex., walk .9 miles, ytd walk 329.1 miles, pm tm slow 2.3 miles, ytd run 748.9 miles.  still injured, trying to keep active)

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” Colette

 (daily ex. walk .5 miles,   tm 3.2 miles,  still injured trying to do a little slow movement)

“Childhood is a short season.” — Helen Hayes

 (daily ex. update, walk 0.5 miles, ytd walk 327.7 miles, pm tm jog 1 streak saver mile, ytd run 743.4 miles, injured my back)

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

 (daily ex., dog walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 327.2 miles.  pm tm run 3.8 miles, ytd run 742.4 miles)

"The trouble with life was that you didn't get a chance to practice before doing it for real." ― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

 (daily ex. , walk dog 2.4 miles, ytd walk 325.7 miles, pm tm jog 3.2 miles, ytd run 738.6 miles)

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams

 (daily ex., walk 2.1 miles, ytd walk 323.3 miles. pm tm run 8.2 miles, ytd run 735.4 miles.  I've been slacking, must try harder)

“I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking.” ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase

 

(daily ex. update, hot, hot, hot.  slow run 1.8 streak saver miles)

Always look to be uncommon amongst uncommon people. Never look to just get the invitation and fit in.--David Goggins

 If you want to be a runner, run.

If you want to be a clown be a goddamn clown

Don’t ever let someone dictate to you how you should be.

That’s your call,

not theirs.

(shared from a post on Facebook)

(daily ex. update, walk 2 miles from 3 walks, ytd walk 321.2 miles, pm tm run 5.2 miles, ytd run 725.4 miles)

Funny for the weekend.....

 This guy is dining alone in a fancy restaurant and there's a beautiful redhead sitting at the next table. He's been sneakily checking her out ever since he arrived, but doesn't have the courage to start talking to her.

Suddenly she sneezes, and her glass eye comes flying out of its socket toward the man. His reflexes kick in and he reaches out, plucks it out of the air, and hands it back to her.

The redhead is mortified. "Oh my, I am so sorry," she says as she pops her eye back into place. "Let me buy your dinner to make it up to you."

So he joins her table and they enjoy a wonderful meal together. Afterwards they go to the theatre followed by drinks at a bar. They talk, they laugh, she shares her deepest dreams and he shares his. She listens.

After paying for everything, he said, "you are the perfect woman; are you this nice to every guy you meet?"

"No," she replies, "You just happened to catch my eye."

(daily ex. update, walk 4.7 miles, ytd walk 319.2 miles, pm tm streak saver run 2 miles, ytd run 720.2 miles. Hot, hot, hot)

“The value of biodiversity is that it makes our ecosystems more resilient, which is a prerequisite for stable societies; its wanton destruction is akin to setting fire to our lifeboat.” — Johan Rockström

 (daily ex., dog walk 1.4 miles, ytd walk 314.5 miles.  pm tm run 3.6 miles, ytd run 718.2 miles)

“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for—in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.” ― Ellen Goodman

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1 mile, ytd walk 313.1 miles, pm streak saver jog 1.5 miles, ytd run 714.6 miles)

“Those who can make you believe absurdities; can make you commit atrocities” Voltaire

 (daily ex. update, walk 3.8 miles, ytd walk 312.1 miles, afternoon tm run 3.5 miles, ytd run 713.1 miles)

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

 (daily ex. update, walk 2.3 miles, ytd walk 308.3 miles.  tm run 6.3 miles, ytd run 709.6 miles)

:The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind." Bob Dylan

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2 miles, ytd walk 306 miles.  pm jog 3.2 miles, ytd run 703.3 miles)

if you’re feeling discouraged about the future of our world, remember that somewhere tonight a little girl is reading a book about brave kids battling overwhelming evil, and she is beginning to make plans.

 (daily ex. update, walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 304 miles.  pm tm 4.1 miles run, ytd run 700.1 miles)

"You aren't old until age becomes your excuse. If you continue to remind yourself of your age and use it as a crutch, no matter what that number is, you'll come to believe that high achievement is impossible. That's probably the way your parents saw the world. Mine did. In my parents' day, after a certain age you weren't expected to do anything strenuous. Gardening and a walk around the block was about as tough as it got. Just grow old, get fat, and accept that as the way life is. You can have that if you want but it doesn't have to be that way." ~Joe Friel

 Running slow isn't a character flaw--quitting is.

(daily ex. update, run 0.5 + 13.3 miles, ytd run 696 miles, walk 1 mile, ytd walk 301.5 miles)

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” – Maya Angelou

 (daily ex update, walk 1 mile, ytd walk 300.5 miles.  afternoon slow jog 2.1 miles, ytd run 682.2 miles.  House painters are finished!)

“But that’s what happens. Once the human tragedy has been completed, it gets turned over to the journalists to banalize into entertainment.” ― Philip Roth

 (daily ex update, dog walk 0.5 miles, ytd walk 299.5 miles, pm jog 2.3 miles, ytd run 680.1 miles.  Having my house painted)

“The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.” — Marcus Aurelius

 (daily ex. update, walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 299 miles,  afternoon jog 1.5 miles, ytd run 677.8 miles.  Mowed the front yard, picked up my sweet dog from the kennel.)