(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 4.miles, ytd walk 301 miles.  afternoon tm 5.1 miles, ytd run 449.2 miles.)

Just keep showing up.

  (daily ex. update, walk 3.6 miles from 2 walks, ytd walk 297 miles.  morning run 5.7 miles with dog, ytd run 444.1 miles.  Spring is here today)

Excellent advice

 

(daily ex. update, walk 2.2 miles, ytd walk 293.4 miles.  pm tm 4.3 miles, ytd run 438.4 miles)

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” ― Mark Twain

      Such a great observation.

(daily ex. update, morning chilly walk 1.2 miles, ytd walk 291.2 miles.  morning tm run 3.3 miles, pm tm run 3.4 miles, ytd run 434.1 miles, I have some catching up to do)

April is national poetry month

 I read these lines this week, from the poem After reading Kobayashi Issa's The Spring of my life on my 49th birthday by Dobby Gibson.   Beautiful.

When I say, Snow, what will become of this world?
it says, I was not taught future tense.

(daily ex. update, walk 3.5 miles, ytd walk 290.1 miles.  pm tm run 4.5 miles, ytd run 427.4 miles)

 

(daily ex. update, walk 2 miles to walk dog and cool down from run, ytd walk 286.6 miles.  tm run 13.1. miles, virtual Eugene half marathon, ytd run 422.9 miles)

 

(daily ex. update, 2 walks=5 miles, ytd walk 284.6 miles.  tm run 1.5 miles, ytd run 409.8 miles)

 

(ex. update walk 3 miles, ytd walk 279.6 miles.  tm run 3.6 miles, ytd run 408.3)

Happy Earth Day

 

The sun is finally back today....

[the snow is melting]

BY KOBAYASHI ISSA

TRANSLATED BY ROBERT HASS

The snow is melting

and the village is flooded

      with children.

(ex. update, walk 3 miles, ytd walk 276.6 miles.  tm run 4.5 miles, ytd run 404.7 miles)

 

(daily ex. update, walk 1.7 miles, ytd walk 273.6 miles.  pm jog 2.3 miles, ytd run 400.2 miles.  really ready for spring to arrive)

 

(daily ex. update, walk 2 miles, ytd walk 271.9 miles.  pm tm 5.1 miles, ytd run 397.9 miles.  plus a few minutes of shoveling snow)

“You're only given a spark of madness. You musn't lose it.” ― Robin Williams

                                              I saw this mural downtown yesterday.

You got to be crazy,
It’s too late to be sane, too late
You got to go full-tilt bozo
Cause, you’re only given a little spark of madness
If you lose that, you’re nothing
Don’t ever lose that cause it keeps you alive.

(daily ex update, jog 2.2 miles, ytd run 392.8 miles, walk .7 miles, ytd walk 269.9 miles, still winter here in Colorado)

 

(daily ex. update, walk 2 miles, ytd walk 269.2 miles, run 1.3 miles, ytd run 390.6 miles)

This place could be beautiful

 (daily ex. update, walk 1.6 miles, ytd walk 267.2 miles.  PM tm 4.7 miles, ytd run 389.3 miles)

 (ex. update jog 1.5 miles to maintain streak, ytd run 384.6 miles.  Snow day)

by Nicolette Sowder

May we raise children
who love the unloved
things–the dandelion, the
worms and spiderlings.
Children who sense
the rose needs the thorn

& run into rainswept days
the same way they
turn towards sun…

And when they’re grown &
someone has to speak for those
who have no voice

may they draw upon that
wilder bond, those days of
tending tender things

and be the ones.

     I read this poem on FB today.......so lovely and so needed.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2 miles, ytd walk 265.6 miles.  pm tm 4.3 miles, ytd run 383.1 miles)

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(ex update, am dog walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 263.6 miles.  PM tm 4.5 miles, ytd run 378.8 miles)

 

(daily ex update, am walk 1.3 miles, ytd walk 262.1 miles.  pm jog 2.2 miles, ytd running miles 374.3 miles)

My family will appreciate this....or not....

 

(daily ex. update, morning walk with dog 2.5 miles, ytd walk 260.8 miles.  PM tm 4.5 miles, ytd run 372.1 miles.)

For What It's Worth (lyrics)

 For What It's Worth

Buffalo Springfield

There's something happening here
But what it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

It's time we stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?

What a field day for the heat (Ooh ooh ooh)
A thousand people in the street (Ooh ooh ooh)
Singing songs and they carrying signs (Ooh ooh ooh)
Mostly say, "Hooray for our side" (Ooh ooh ooh)

It's time we stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line, the men come and take you away

We better stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?

You better stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?

You better stop
Now, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?

You better stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Stephen Stills

 

(ex. update, walk 1 mile, ytd walk 258.3 miles, run tm 13,1 miles virtual Platte River half, ytd run 367.6 miles)

I love the World Health Organization

 

(daily ex update, morning run 1.5 miles, ytd run 354.5 miles, also walked 4.5 miles in 2 walks, ytd walk 257.3 miles)

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

 Very true quote...

(ex. update, a.m. walk 2 miles with dog, ytd walk 252.8 miles;   eve. jog 1.2 miles to save streak, ytd run 353 miles.  Also gave dog a bath, a lot of exercise if that counts)

“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.” —Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

 

(daily ex. update, walk 3.2 miles with dog in a.m., ytd walk 250.8 miles.  pm tm 5.2 miles, ytd run 351.8 miles.)

"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children." Sitting Bull on Life

 (ex. update, morning dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 247.6 miles.  pm tm jog 4.2 miles, ytd run 346.6 miles)

Lace up.

      Today is National Walking Day....the first Wednesday in April every year. We should make every day a walking day.  Here's to your health.

I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn't wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did. I love, too, that I know a little more today than I did yesterday, or I simply know it more profoundly. Maya Angelou

 

(ex. update, morning run 4.6 miles, ytd run 342.4 miles.  Walk 3.4 miles in 2 walks, ytd walk 244.6 miles.)

 

ex. update, morning run with dog 3.6 miles, ytd run 337.8 miles.  Walk 3.4 miles, ytd walk 241.2 miles

 

(ex update, morning walk with dog 3 miles, ytd walk 237.8 miles.  PM tm run 6.3 miles, ytd run 334.2 miles)

 

(daily ex. update, morning 2 walks = 4.2 miles, ytd walk 234.8 miles.  am run 1.2 miles, pm run 3.1 miles, ytd run 327.9 miles.)

 

(ex. update, morning run with dog 3.6 miles, ytd run 323.6 miles.  1 mile walk warm up and cool down plus 3.1 miles walked on tm while reading, ytd walk 230.6 miles.  Beautiful day.)

 (ex. update, morning run 3.1 miles with my dog with a 1 mile walk to warm up and cool down.  ytd run 320 miles, ytd walk 226.5 miles.  I'm in the middle of a good mystery, difficult to put down but it was a beautiful springtime day)