“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -” ― Heraclitus

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 57 miles, pm jog 1.5 miles, ytd run 128.2 miles)

  (daily ex., morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 54 miles.  pm tm run 6.7 miles, ytd run 126.7 miles)

 (daily ex., walk 3.5 miles, ytd walk 51.5 miles.  pm jog 3.1 miles, ytd run 120 miles)

“There’s always a sunrise and always a sunset and it’s up to you to choose to be there for it,’ said my mother. 'Put yourself in the way of beauty.” ― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

 (daily ex. update, dog walk 1.2 miles, ytd walk 48 miles, pm jog 1.5 miles, ytd run 116.9 miles.  20 min of early morning snow shoveling)

A pun walks into a room and kills ten people. Pun in, ten dead.

 (daily ex., snowy icy dog walk 0.5 miles, ytd walk 46.8 miles.  pm jog 4.7 miles, ytd run 115.4 miles. Looking for a few days of warmer weather coming up)

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

 (daily ex. update, dog walk 1 mile, ytd walk 46.3 miles. pm jog 3.7 miles, ytd run 110.7 miles.  morning snow shoveling 45 min.)

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.” — Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

 (daily ex update, dog walk 0.3 miles in snowstorm, ytd walk 45.3 miles.  pm tm run 3.1 miles, ytd run 107 miles.  Tomorrow will be a snow shoveling day)

 

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 45 miles.  pm tm run 3.5 miles, ytd run 103.9 miles)

“Every perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.” — Gerald Edelman, Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge

 (daily ex update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 42 miles.  pm jog 3.5 miles, ytd run 100.4 miles)

“Remind yourself that the lion, while hunting, doesn’t roar.” —Source unknown

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1 mile, ytd walk 39.5 miles. pm jog 4.2 miles, ytd run 96.9 miles.  morning shovel snow 30 min)

“Once you label me you negate me.” ― Søren Kierkegaard

 (daily ex. update, morning 1.6 icy miles dog walk before snow started falling, ytd walk 38.5 miles.  pm jog 2.4 miles, ytd run 92.7 miles.  Snowed lightly all day.)

“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” ― A.A. Milne

 

“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”

                                                 Tigger

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.1 icy miles, ytd walk 36.9 miles.  pm jog 3.6 miles, ytd run 90.3 miles)

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. Elie Wiesel

 

“That which is not good for the bee-hive, cannot be good for the bee.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 0.5 miles, freezing fog, very icy, ytd walk 34.8 miles..   pm jog 2 miles, ytd run 86.7 miles)

“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow.” —Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.1 miles, ytd walk 34.3 miles.  pm jog 2.5 miles, ytd run 84.7 miles)

“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.

 “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”

― 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.

“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

(daily ex update, morning dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 32.2 miles.  pm jog 3.5 miles, ytd run 82.2 miles)

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.1 miles, ytd walk 29.2 miles.  pm jog 2.1 miles, ytd run 78.7 miles)

 

(daily ex update, morning dog walk 0.5 miles, ytd walk 27.1 miles.  45 minutes scooping snow.  pm jog 2.1 miles, ytd run 76.6 miles)

“Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.” Ann Bradford

 

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.7 miles, ytd walk 26.6 miles.  pm jog 3.5 miles, ytd run 74.5 miles)

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” Edward Everett Hale

 

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 24.9 miles.  pm run 3.2 miles, ytd run 71 miles)

A link to an inspiring and honest article by 82 year old competitive runner Roger Robinson

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/running/racing-after-80-aging-inspiration-senior-fitness/

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.5 miles, ytd walk 21.9 miles.  pm tm run 6.7 miles, ytd run 67.8 miles)

 

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2 miles, ytd walk 18.4 miles.  pm run 3.1 miles, ytd run 61.1 miles)

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3 miles on a beautiful clear day.  PM tm 6.5 miles, ytd run 58 miles)

A House Called Tomorrow Alberto Ríos - 1952-

 You are not fifteen, or twelve, or seventeen—

You are a hundred wild centuries

And fifteen, bringing with you
In every breath and in every step

Everyone who has come before you,
All the yous that you have been,

The mothers of your mother,
The fathers of your father.

If someone in your family tree was trouble,
A hundred were not:

The bad do not win—not finally,
No matter how loud they are.

We simply would not be here
If that were so.

You are made, fundamentally, from the good.
With this knowledge, you never march alone.

You are the breaking news of the century.
You are the good who has come forward

Through it all, even if so many days
Feel otherwise.  But think:

When you as a child learned to speak,
It’s not that you didn’t know words—

It’s that, from the centuries, you knew so many,
And it’s hard to choose the words that will be your own.

From those centuries we human beings bring with us
The simple solutions and songs,

The river bridges and star charts and song harmonies
All in service to a simple idea:

That we can make a house called tomorrow.
What we bring, finally, into the new day, every day,

Is ourselves.  And that’s all we need
To start.  That’s everything we require to keep going. 

Look back only for as long as you must,
Then go forward into the history you will make.

Be good, then better.  Write books.  Cure disease.
Make us proud.  Make yourself proud.

And those who came before you?  When you hear thunder,
Hear it as their applause.

 (daily ex. update, morning icy chilly dog walk 1.3 miles, ytd walk 13.4 miles.  PM tm long run 9.2 miles, ytd run 51.5 miles)

 Way too many puns.

1. Dad, are we pyromaniacs? Yes, we arson.

2. What do you call a pig with laryngitis? Disgruntled.

3. Writing my name in cursive is my signature move.

4. Why do bees stay in their hives during winter? ’Swarm.

5. If you’re bad at haggling, you’ll end up paying the price.

6. Just so everyone’s clear, I’m going to put my glasses on.

7. A commander walks into a bar and orders everyone around.

8. I lost my job as a stage designer. I left without making a scene.

9. Never buy flowers from a monk. Only you can prevent florist friars.

10. How much did the pirate pay to get his ears pierced? A buccaneer.

11. I once worked at a cheap pizza shop to get by. I kneaded the dough.

12. My friends and I have named our band ‘Duvet’. It’s a cover band.

13. I lost my girlfriend’s audiobook, and now I’ll never hear the end of it.

14. Why is ‘dark’ spelled with a k and not c? Because you can’t see in the dark.

15. Why is it unwise to share your secrets with a clock? Well, time will tell.

16. When I told my contractor I didn’t want carpeted steps, they gave me a blank stare.

17. Bono and The Edge walk into a Dublin bar and the bartender says, “Oh no, not U2 again.”

18. Prison is just one word to you, but for some people, it’s a whole sentence.

19. Scientists got together to study the effects of alcohol on a person’s walk, and the result was staggering.

20. I’m trying to organize a hide and seek tournament, but good players are really hard to find.

21. I got over my addiction to chocolate, marshmallows, and nuts. I won’t lie, it was a rocky road.

22. What do you say to comfort a friend who’s struggling with grammar? There, their, they’re.

23. I went to the toy store and asked the assistant where the Schwarzenegger dolls are and he replied, “Aisle B, back.”

24. What did the surgeon say to the patient who insisted on closing up their own incision? Suture self.

25. I’ve started telling everyone about the benefits of eating dried grapes. It’s all about raisin awareness.

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Live your life and forget your age.

 (daily ex. update, walk 3.3 chilly morning miles, ytd walk 12.1 miles.  PM tm 2.3 miles run, ytd run miles 42.3)

 (daily ex. update, walk dog a.m. 2 miles, ytd walk. pm tm run 3.6 miles, ytd run 40 miles)

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said." — A.A. Milne

(daily ex. update, morning very cold dog walk 0.5 miles, ytd walk 6.8 miles.  PM slow tm run 6.3 miles, ytd run 36.4 miles)

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” ― Mother Teresa

 (daily ex. update, dog walk 2.6 miles early before storm came in, ytd walk 3.7 miles.  PM tm run 5.8 miles, ytd run 30.1 miles.)

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

 

“Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Collected Poems and Translations

“You know what the happiest animal in the world is? It's a goldfish. It's got a 10 second memory. Be a goldfish!”   (Ted Lasso)

(daily ex. update, dog walk 1.7 cold and windy miles, ytd walk 3.7 miles.  PM tm run 6.5 miles, ytd run 24.3 miles)

“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.” – John Muir

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 slow icy miles, ytd walk 2 miles total.  pm tm run 5.8 miles, ytd run 17.8 miles.  day 3 trying to stay ahead of the game)

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.” ― John A. Shedd

 (daily ex. update, dog walk 0.5 icy miles, pm tm run 5.7 miles, shovel snow 30 min.)