/ Arthur C Clarke / . "If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods."

 (daily ex.,morning yoga and stretching, dog walk 1.7 mi, afternoon tm jog 6.2 miles)

“Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.” ― Terry Pratchett

 (daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, morning dog walk 3.2 mi., pm slow jog 4 mi)

“The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.” ― Pierre Bonnard

 (daily ex. morning dog walk 1.7 mi, morning yoga and stretching, afternoon walk 1.5 mi, eve slow streaksaver jog 1 mi, tired today)

/ Ayn Rand / . "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."

 (daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.7 mi, pm tm jog 3.2 mi, 2 walks 2.3 mi)

Happy Birthday Sir Terry Pratchett

 'I didn’t have white hair in those days,’ said Granny.

‘Everything was a different colour in those days.’

‘That’s true.’

‘It didn’t rain so much in the summer time.’

‘The sunsets were redder.’

‘There were more old people. The world was full of them,’ said the wizard.

‘Yes, I know. And now it’s full of young people. Funny, really. I mean, you’d expect it to be the other way round.' — Equal Rites

(daily ex., morning dog walk 2 slow miles, yoga and stretching, pm jog 4.2 miles with 1.3 mi cooldown walk)

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” ― Abraham Lincoln

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 0.6 mi in rain which turned to snow. tm am jog 1.5 mi, tm pm jog 3.5 mi, cooldown walk 1.5 mi.. after all that my garmin tells me I had an easy day and need to exercise)

“What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.” — Ray Charles

 (daily ex., morning yoga, 2 walks = 3 mi, pm slow jog 3.5 mi)

To hold a pen is to be at war.----Voltaire

 (daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, 1.4 mi dog walk, pm slow mile.  Take it easy day)

“Innocent sleep. Sleep that soothes away all our worries. Sleep that puts each day to rest. Sleep that relieves the weary laborer and heals hurt minds. Sleep, the main course in life's feast, and the most nourishing.” ―William Shakespeare, Macbeth

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 2.8 mi, a.m. yoga, pm slow jog-walk 3.3 mi)

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage we have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. Charlie Munger.

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 mi., yoga and stretching, pm slow jog 5 mi)

"A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburn, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches, that is the right and privilege of any free American.” ~Edward Abbey

 (daily ex., morning yoga followed by 1.6 mi dog walk, pm very slow jog-walk 3.5 miles)

“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.” ― Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

 (daily ex., morning yoga, 1.2 mi dog walk, pm slow jog 3.1 mi)

"We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective." ~ Kurt Vonnegut.

 

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:

“Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.

I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is - we're here on Earth to fart around.

And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

(daily ex., dog walk plus group walk 3.5 mi, 2 jogs=3 mi)

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. ~Ernest Hemingway

 (daily ex.,morning dog walk 0.9 mi, pm slow tm jog 5.8 mi. It is snowing!)

“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” — Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby (1826-93)

 (daily ex., tm jog 3.1 mi, cooldown walk 1.4 mi, rainy cold day)

You can’t skip chapters, that’s not how life works. You have to read every line, meet every character. You won’t enjoy all of it. Hell, some chapters will make you cry for weeks. You will read things you don’t want to read, you will have moments when you don’t want the pages to end. But you have to keep going. Stories keep the world revolving. Live yours, don’t miss out.

 Courtney Peppernell

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 mi, afternoon walk 1.5 mi, pm jog t.m. 3.1 mi)

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” ― Robert Frost

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 0.6 mi, pm t.m. jog 5.5 mi)

 

Of the Empire | Mary Oliver

We will be known as a culture that feared death
and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
for the few and cared little for the penury of the
many. We will be known as a culture that taught
and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke
little if at all about the quality of life for
people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All
the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a
commodity. And they will say that this structure
was held together politically, which it was, and
they will say also that our politics was no more
than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of
the heart, and that the heart, in those days,
was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 slow miles, pm jog 4.5 slow miles)

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.” ― E.E. Cummings

 (daily ex.,morning dog walk 1.7 mi, pm tm jog 2 mi)

“Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise” . W.B. Yeats.

 (daily ex., morning walks 3.7 mi., pm slow jogs to get some steps in 3.5 mi.)

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” – Willa Cather

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.2 mi, pm tm jog 3.2 mi, cooldown walk 2.1 mi., I am 35 mi behind where I need to be at this time of year to run/walk 2024 mi. in 2024)

 Don't Hesitate

by Mary Oliver

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy,
don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty
of lives and whole towns destroyed or about
to be. We are not wise, and not very often
kind. And much can never be redeemed.
Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this
is its way of fighting back, that sometimes
something happens better than all the riches
or power in the world. It could be anything,
but very likely you notice it in the instant
when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the
case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid
of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

(daily ex., yesterday 1 mi walk, 1.1 mi jog, today 1.4 mile dog walk, 6.2 mi tm jog, 1.4 mi cooldown walk)

“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” – John Steinbeck

 (daily ex,morning dog walk 1.5 mi, pm jog streak saver 1 miles)

Jordan Maxwell / . “That's the most dangerous thing you can do: educate people. Because when people become educated, you cannot control them, you cannot frighten them. People who are educated know their own power, and don't surrender it to others.”

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 mi, pm jog 3.4 mi, cooldown walk 1.2 mi)

The older I get, the more I see how women are described as having gone mad, when what they’ve actually become is knowledgeable and powerful, and really fucking furious. ~Sophie Heawood

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.3 mi, pm streaksaver slow jog 1 mi)

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." ~ Aldous Huxley

(Winds of up to 91 mph so far.  Crazy day.  daily ex. = 2 walks=3.5 miles, 2 tm jogs=3 miles)

The reason why our families are not the same anymore, is because we buried the ones who used to keep the family together.

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.2 slow miles, pm jog 6.3 miles)

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.” ― Disraeli

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.1 mi, afternoon walk 2 mi., pm tm jog 3 mi)

Things take the time they take. Don't worry.----Mary Oliver

 (daily ex., morning dog slow walk 1.2 mi, pm tm jog 4 mi, 1.5 mi cooldown walk)

“Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

 (daily ex, morning dog walk 0.6 miles only as she didn't want to walk today, pm jog tm 4 mi, cooldown walk 1.5 mi)

“I once believed, as most do, that if arguments are to be won, the opponent must be pummeled into submission and silenced. You can imagine how that idea played at home. If, in accordance with such a definition, I won an argument, I began to lose the relationship.” — Gerry Spence

 (daily ex, 2 walks= 3mi, pm slow jog/walk 3.5 miles)

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” ― H.G. Wells

 (daily ex., 2 walks=2.2 mi, pm slow jog 4 miles)

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Mary Oliver

 (daily ex., morning walks 3.6 mi, pm streak saver jog 1 mi)

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 miles, pm jog 4.2 mi)

Some people want to see you fail. Disappoint them.

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1 mi, pm streak saver jog 1 mile)

Believing facts and trusting science doesn't mean you're a "liberal." It means you're "literate."

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 miles, 30 min yoga, pm slow jog 3mi)

“I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.” — Charles Bukowski

(daily ex., morning dog walk 0.5 mi, pm tm jog 6 mi)

“Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race--small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.” ― Chief Sitting Bull tags: 1877, inequality, powder-river-conference, sitting-bull

 Monday 3-25, daily ex, , shovel snow 30 min, 0.5 mi dog walk, pm slow streak saver jog 1 mi)

 

“LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT
(PERCY THREE)

He puts his cheek against mine
and makes small, expressive sounds.
And when I'm awake, or awake enough

he turns upside down, his four paws
in the air
and his eyes dark and fervent.

Tell me you love me, he says.

Tell me again.

Could there be a sweeter arrangement?
Over and over
he gets to ask it.
I get to tell.”

― Mary Oliver

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 miles, morning yoga, pm tm jog 2 miles)

 "I am so tired of waiting,

Aren't you,

For the world to become good

And beautiful and kind."

- Langston Hughes

(daily ex., 3 short walks=3.6 miles, pm tm jog 3.5 miles)

Hanlon’s razor: not attributing to malice what can likely be explained by incompetence.

Occam's razor: keep it simple, stupid.

Hanlon's razor: People make mistakes. This does not make them evil.

Hitchen's razor: If it can't be backed up, dismiss it.

Grice's razor: Understand the true meaning, not the face value.

(daily ex., morning slow dog walk 2.1 mi, pm slow jog 4.1 mi)

“Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the butt. It's like an athletic event. You've got to train for it. You've got to eat right. You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out. Exercise is king and nutrition is queen: together, you have a kingdom.” — Jack LaLanne 1914 – 2011 CE

 Jack La Lanne had an fitness tv show from 1951 to 1985, the first and longest running nationally syndicated exercise program..  I remember watching him.

One of La Lanne's sayings was “If man made it, don’t eat it”.

(daily ex, morning dog walk 1.8 mi, pm tm slow jog 4.7 mi., I am 23 miles behind where I should be for the year)

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” ― C.S. Lewis

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.1 mi, pm slow jog 5.1 mi just to get some steps in)

/ Robert Frost / . "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.2 mi, pm tm jog 5 mi)

Woke

 You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

                                        Inigo Montoya from “The Princess Bride”

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1 mi, pm tm jog 6 mi)

That's the dance.

 "If you really want to be great at something, you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it. A lot of people say they want to be great, but they're not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve greatness. They have other concerns, and they spread themselves out. ... Greatness isn't easy to achieve. It requires a lot of time, a lot of sacrifices. It requires a lot of tough choices. It requires your loved ones to sacrifice, too. So you have to have an understanding circle of family and friends. People don't always understand just how much effort from how many people goes into one person chasing a dream to be great. There's a fine balance between obsessing about your craft and being there for your family. It's akin to walking a tightrope. Your legs are shaky, and you're trying to find your center. Whenever you lean too far in one direction, you correct your course and end up over leaning in the other direction. So you correct by leaning the other way again. That's the dance. You can't achieve greatness by walking a straight line."

— Kobe Bryant

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.1 mi, pm tm jog 5.1 mi)

Cat logic is so simple yet so effective. dont like something? smack it as far away from you as possible. literally flawless reasoning.

 (daily ex., 05 mi dog walk, pm streaksaver jog 1 miles)

“But I've also learned there's no point in actively trying to quote unquote defeat your enemies. Trash takes itself out every single time.”---Taylor Swift

 (daily ex, 30 min of snow shoveling in a.m., pm jog 1.5 miles)

What's worse than a monster making fun of someone stuttering? The audience that laughed.

(blizzard day with hours without power, daily ex. slow jog-walk 2 miles)

Michel de Montaigne / . "On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom."

 (daily ex.,morning dog walk 1.3 mi.,pm slow and easy jog-walk 2 miles treadmill)

“Fitness is feeling like you are dying at a much faster pace than you used to feel like you were dying at.” —Sabrina B. Little

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1 mi, pm jog 7.7 mi on tm during long movie)

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” ― George Carlin, Brain Droppings

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.1 mi, pm streaksaver jog 1.1mi)

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” –Ursula Leguin”

 The creative adult is the child who survived.

The creative adult is the child who survived after the world tried killing them, making them “grown up.” The creative adult is the child who survived the blandness of schooling, the unhelpful words of bad teachers, and the nay-saying ways of the world.

The creative adult is in essence simply that, a child.

(daily ex., morning dog walk 0.7 miles, pm streaksaver jog 1.3 mi)

“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” – Paulo Coelho

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.1 miles, pm slow jog-walk to get in a few steps.  Started collecting tax info for CPA.  Lots of questions)

International Women's Day

 

“If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”

― Shirley Chisholm

Celebrate Women's history month by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get mad about it, tell them they sound hysterical and need to smile more.

(daily ex., morning dog walk 0.9 miles, afternoon tm jog 5.6 mi, pm tm walk 3.5 miles, procrastinating to avoid working on my taxes)

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.” ― Anais Nin

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 0.7 miles very slow, afternoon tm jog 5.8 miles, pm cooldown walk 1.5 miles)

Blaise Pascal / . "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.8 mi, pm slow walk-jog 4.5 miles, tired today)

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.” ― Kait Rokowski

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 slow miles, pm tm jog 5 miles. plus 1 mi cooldown walk)

Decide to be arc-benders

 Yes, the arc of the moral universe is long and it bends toward justice, but make no mistake it will bend far less severely and far more slowly if we simply wait for it to do so.

We are the arc-benders.

John Pavlovitz

(daily ex., morning slow dog walk 1.5 miles, pm slow walk-jog 5 miles)

Henry D Thoreau / . "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

 (daily ex., morning very slow dog walk 1.5 miles, pm jog tm 6.5 miles)

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

 (daily ex., 2 walks=3.5 mi, pm streak saver slow jog, rest day, read a great book)

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” ~Ursula K. Le Guin

 (daily ex. update, morning very slow dog walk 2.1 miles, pm jog tm 5.5 miles)

As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations. Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes (by Bill Watterson)

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 mi, slow jog/walk pm 4.7 mi, rest day)

Anyone want to meet up and just scream? We can get food after.---unknown

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.3 miles, pm jog 5.7 miles)

“For me, family is the definition of gravity.” ― Kate Stewart,

 (daily ex. update, snowy morning dog walk 0.4 miles, pm tm jog 6.2 miles)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn / . ""In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers , we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundation of justice from beneath new generations. "

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 mi, pm slow jog 5 mi)

"Never pick a fight with a woman over 40. They're full of rage and sick of everyone's [bullshit]." -- Cate Blanchett

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 mi, pm jog 5.7 miles tm)

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.” ― Erma Bombeck

 “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”

― Erma Bombeck

(daily ex., 2 walks=4 miles, pm streaksaver jog 1 mi)

“This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.” ― Nina Simone,

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.2 miles, pm slow jog-walk 2.1 miles, rest day, tired)

Unfortunately I read the headlines today. I am disgusted.

 I gotta stay in shape

Just in case things go further south and I have to run messages for the resistance.

Nobody will suspect a little old lady.

                      Alison Bechdel

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 miles, pm tm jog 6.5 miles)

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

 “I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers. In the long hours of church--was it then I learned? I could not remember not being able to read hymns. Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces. I could not remember when the lines above Atticus's moving finger separated into words. But I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills to Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow--anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

― Harper Lee

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.7 slow miles, pm slow jog/walk 4.8 miles)

"We don't realize how strong we actually are," said Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.

 "If they decide to kill me, we are incredibly strong," he said

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.2 very slow miles, pm tm jog 6.3 miles)

“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.” ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

 (daily ex., 2 dog walks=2 miles, pm tm jog 5.3 miles)

/ Anais Nin / . "Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity."

 (Sun, 2-18, morning dog walk 1.5 mi, pm slow jog-walk 5 mi)

Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once--Marcus Aurelius

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 0.8 mi followed by 15 min of shoveling snow, 3 mi walk at noon with  a friend, pm 2 mi tm jog with 1 mi cooldown walk)

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will

 “Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will; indeed, it has led many people into dangers which mere physical courage would shudder away from, for hunger and love and curiosity are the great impelling forces of life.”

— Brian Grazer

(daily ex., morning slow dog walk 1.2 miles, getting slower every day.  pm tm jog 3.2 mi with 1.3 mile cooldown walk)

George Orwell / . "However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing."

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 0.8 mi, pm tm 4.2 mi)

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” ― André Gide

 (daily ex., morning slow dog walk 1.5 mi, pm slow jog 4.7 mi)

Kurt Vonnegut / . "You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society."

 (daily ex. morning dog walk 1.3 miles, pm slow streaksaver 1.1 miles)

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” ― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 slow miles, pm slow jog to get steps in 3.2 miles)

Intelligent people know how to get what they want. Wise people know what's worth wanting.

 (Sun. ex., morning dog walk 1.4 mi, pm slow streak saver 1.1 mi)

“Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 0.5 mi., some snow, pm slow jog 2.5 miles)

“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself” ― Henry Miller

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.4 miles, pm jog 1.6 miles tm, plus 4 mi walk tm)

“She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.” ― Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden

 Such an awesome quote!

(daily ex., morning dog walk 0.8 mi., pm slow streaksaver jog walk 1.2 miles. tired today so didn't do much, treated it as a rest day, then my smart watch tells me I had a rough day and need to rest more so guess I made the right call)

Marcus Aurelius / . "Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?"

 (daily ex., 2 dog walks =1.7 miles, pm jog-walk 5.3 miles)

I dwell in possibility.---Emily Dickinson

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.7 mi, pm jog 2.5 mi)

“This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.” ― Maya Angelou

 (daily ex., morning very icy walk w dog 0.75 miles, pm streaksaver slow jog 1.1 mi)

The North wind made the Vikings......Scandinavian proverb

 (daily ex., 60 min. shoveling snow, 0.6 mi dog walk, pm tm jog 1.2 miles and 3.3 miles tm walk)

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold. -Unknown

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 0.5 miles in the cold rain, major snowstorm all day, pm walk 3 miles and 1.1 mile slow streaksaver jog, over a foot of snow which I will have to deal with tomorrow. It is pretty out)

“I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.” ― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

 I believe in critical thinking and honest skepticism, but one must also have an open mind.

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.2 miles, pm treadmill run 1.1 mi., pm tm walk 4.7 miles.  so glad to have my treadmill repaired)

“You don’t want to hear the story of my life, and anyway I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen to the enormous waterfalls of the sun. And anyway it’s the same old story - - - a few people just trying, one way or another, to survive." ........Mary Oliver

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 mi, pm slow jog/walk 5.5 miles)

I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam. Popeye the Sailor

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.3 slow miles, pm slow jog 5.2 miles)

“I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.” ― Gilda Radner

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 0.7 mi, pm jog 2.3 mi)

“Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess.” ― George Saunders, Tenth of December

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 miles, pm slow jog 3.5 mi, walk 1.1 miles)

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.” ― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland

 (daily ex., morning slow dog walk 1.4 miles, pm streak saver jog 1.1 mi, walk 4 miles)

If every day is a gift, then today was socks.

 Luckily, I love socks.

(daily ex., morning walks 3.5 miles, pm slow jog 3.1 mi)

“What do you hang on the walls of your mind?” — Eve Arnold

 (daily ex., 30 min of shoveling snow, 0.5 mi dog walk, pm slow jog-walk 2.5 miles)

“Patience is also a form of action.” — Auguste Rodin, French sculptor

 (daily ex., very slow morning dog walk 1.5 miles, pm jog-walk 5 miles) 

“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” – Isaac Asimov

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.2 mi, pm streaksaver jog 1.3 miles, basically a rest day)

“I don’t like the word retirement,” she said. “I like to say a departure from the tour, or just stepping back, or switching gears, or, like, evolving.” Carissa Moore

 (daily ex. update, 2 dog walks = 1.9 miles, pm slow jog 3.1 mi, with 1.2 mi cooldown walk)

"What if your markers of success were how well you slept at night. How many books you read. How easily you laughed. How much time you spent storytelling, feeling warm in the arms and homes of people you adore." - Unknown

 “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”

Alan Bennett

(daily ex., 2 dog walks 2.4 miles, pm jog 3.2 mi with 1 mi cooldown walk)

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

 and that is why they are banning books.

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.3 miles, pm slow jog-walk 5.3 miles)

“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.” ― Andy Warhol

 (daily ex., morning walks 3.5 miles, pm slow jog 3 miles) 

“You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” — Bonnie Prudden

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.2 miles, pm slow jog-walk 5 miles)

/ William Shakespeare / . "What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind."

 (daily ex., morning slow dog walk 1.5 miles, pm streaksaver 2.6 miles run/jogged to get in some more steps)

Everybody knows everybody is dying; that's why people are as good as they are. Henry Wiggen, Bang the Drum Slowly

 

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.4 miles, pm slow jog/walk 4.1 miles. Gotta get those steps in)

Isaac Asimov / . "The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress."

 (daily ex., 30 min. scooping snow, 2 one mile dog walks, pm jog 4 miles with 0.5 cooldown walk)

“The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

 

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

Always inspiring, every single year.

Word of the day:  Xenodochial, being friendly to strangers. (antonym, xenophobia, fear or dislike of anything foreign or strange)

(daily ex. update, snowing and even colder, no dog walk. evening jog 2.6 mi, walk 5 mi to get the steps in) 

“Life is not like formula fiction. The villain has a heart, and the hero has great flaws.” — Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 0.7 miles, still very cold, pm slow jog 2.5 miles)

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. ~Joseph Campbell

 (daily ex. , morning dog walk 0.7 miles, 30 min of snow, pm 4 mi slow jog, 2 mi cooldown walk.  Very cold)

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” – Jean de La Fontaine

 This quote reminds me of the short story, "The Appointment in Samarra" by Maugham.

https://www.k-state.edu/english/baker/english320/Maugham-AS.htm

I don''t agree, though, that destiny is all and is inevitable.  People do have will.

(daily ex. morning dog walk 1.4 mi, pm slow streak saver  jog 2.2 miles.  The arctic cold is arriving overnight tonight)

 

“If you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life, but still the same amount of snow.” -Unknown

 I have to remind of myself of this annually.

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 miles, pm slow jog 3 miles, 2.5 miles warm up and cool down. Still trying to get steps in)

“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.” ― George Carlin

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 miles, very windy chilly day, pm slow jog 2.5 miles with 3 miles of warmup and cooldown walking)

 I recognized winter.

I saw it coming , and I looked it in the eye.

I greeted it and let it in.

I had some tricks up my sleeve, you see.

I've learned them the hard way.

When I started feeling the drag of winter, I began to treat myself like a favored child: with kindness and love.

I assumed my needs were reasonable and that my feelings were signals of something important.

I kept myself well fed and made sure I was getting enough sleep.

I took myself for walks in the fresh air and spent time doing things that soothed me.

I asked myself: What is this winter all about? I asked myself: What change is coming?”

~ Katherine May ~

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 miles, pm 2.2 mi slow jog, 3 mi warm up and cool down walk, knee still bothering)

At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box....Italian Proverb

 (daily ex., 45 min of shoveling snow, 0.7 mi dog walk, 1.1 mi streak saver jog)

“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

 It's been over 50 years since I first read "The Little Prince." What a wonderful book.

(daily ex.morning dog walk 1.6 miles, pm slow jog 1.1 mi, with 2 mi warmup walk and 2 mi cooldown walk.  I'm still rehabbing a sore knee)

“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.” ― Alfred Adler

 (daily ex. update, 3 walks =4.5 miles,pm slow jog 2 miles, rt knee a little better)

“Everyone thinks women should be thrilled when we get crumbs, and I want women to have the cake, the icing, and the cherry on top, too.” —BILLIE JEAN KING”

 "Albert Einstein’s first wife Mileva (Mitza) Marić was also a brilliant physicist. They met at the Polytechnic Institute of Zurich, where she had fought for special permissions to attend and where she received higher marks than Albert. Mitza put in as much if not more work on their theories but wasn’t credited because Albert told her their works wouldn’t get published with a woman’s name on them.

Many of his lecture notes are in Mitza’s handwriting, and Albert was once heard at a party saying, “I need my wife, she helps solve all of my mathematical problems.” 80% of Einstein’s famous works were published during this marriage, referred to as his “magic years.” Those magic years ended abruptly after they divorced due to his infidelity and abandonment."

Happy Women’s History Month to the real genius of the Einstein family, Mileva Marić

(daily ex. update, morning slow dog walk 2.6 miles, pm jog 1.5 miles, cooldown walk 2.5 miles, rt knee still bothering)

The birds, they sang at the break of day. ‘Begin again,’ I heard them say… ~ Leonard Cohen

 (daily ex., morning slow dog walk 2.7 miles,  pm slow jog 1.2 miles followed by 3.3 mi walk, right knee still tweaked)

I said to myself, "Self." (and I knew it was me, cause I recognized my voice, and I was wearing my underwear) "Today is going to be a good day !

 (daily ex. update, 3 walks = 4.6 miles, pm slow jog 2.5 miles, my knee is still sore but a little better)

Do something this year that would have gotten you burned at the stake 400 years ago.

 (daily ex., 2 dog walks 2.3 miles, pm slow jog 2 miles, knee pain, cool down walk 2.2 miles)

"I gotta stay in shape

Just in case things go further south and I have to run messages for the resistance.

Nobody will suspect a little old lady."

                 Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength 

This will be my mantra for 2024.

I have been considering New Year Resolutions.  They turned out to be identical to last year's.  I've gotten lax and just need to get back on track.

(daily ex., 2  very slow dog walks=2 miles, pm jog 3.1 miles, cool down walk 1.1 mi)