“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)