“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)