“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.” — Sylvia Plath.

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 3.7 miles, ytd walk 251.1 miles, pm tm run 4 miles, ytd run 540.6 miles)

“We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.” – Stephen Hawking

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 247.4 miles.  pm tm run 3.5 miles, ytd run 536.6 miles)

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday. Robert A. Heinlein

 (daily ex. update, walk 2.1 miles plus jog with dog 3.2 miles a.m., pm tm run 3.7 miles. ytd walk 245.9 miles, ytd run 533.1 miles)

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” – Carl Sandburg

 (daily ex. update, morning jog with dog 2.3 miles plus walk 1.2 miles.  pm tm run 3.3 miles.  ytd walk 243.8 miles, ytd run 526.2 miles)

“He knows so little and knows it so fluently.” ― Ellen Glasgow

 (daily ex. update, tm run 5.5 miles, ytd run 520.1 miles, walk 0.5 miles, ytd walk 242.6 miles)

“The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.” ― Terry Pratchett

 I'm home from a 3 day trip.  Haven't been doing much exercise-wise.  

(exercise update, no walking for 3 days, ytd walk total remains 242.1 miles,  run total for 3 days =7 miles, ytd run total 515.1 miles)

Don’t wait till tomorrow. Tomorrow is where dreams go to die

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.7 miles, ytd walk 242.1 miles.  pm tm long run 6.5 miles, ytd run 508.1 miles)

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” ― Alan Wilson Watts,

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.3 miles, ytd walk 240.4 miles.  pm tm run 5.1 miles, ytd run 501.6 miles)

“The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.” ― Florence Scovel Shinn

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 238.1 miles.  pm streak saver tm run 1.2 miles, ytd run 496.5 miles)

„Every child is an artist until he's told he's not an artist.“ — John Lennon

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.4 miles,  run 5.7 miles over 2 runs. ytd walk 236.6 miles.  ytd run 495.3 miles)

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 234.2 miles.  pm tm run 3.5 miles, ytd run 489.6 miles)

“A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.” ― Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

 Happy Easter

(daily ex. update, dog walk only 0.5 miles. ytd walk 231.7 miles.  pm tm 1.5 streak saver miles, ytd run 486.1 miles)

"I woke up like this" — Beyoncé

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 4 miles, ytd walk 231.2 miles.  pm tm run 1.1 mile, ytd run 484.6 miles)

"When friendship leaves us through death, we feel cheated in life. Life doesn't play fair, so I vow to win the game for us both."

 

• “Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life
  has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just
  completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark
  is a smile”

  
  ― Julie Burchill

     I lost a good friend today...a life lived completely.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3 miles, pm tm 3.1 miles run.  ytd walk 227.2 miles.  ytd run 483.5 miles)

“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." Jorge Luis Borges

 (daily ex. update, morning chilly windy dog walk 1.1 miles, ytd walk 224.2 miles.  pm tm run 5.5 miles, ytd run 480.4 miles)

“A year from now you will wish you had started today.” —Karen Lamb

 (daily ex. update, morning 1.6 mile dog walk on a very chilly day, ytd walk 223.1 miles.  pm tm run 4.6 miles, ytd run 474.9 miles)

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” ― Maya Angelou

 Remembering my Mom today.

(daily ex. update, dog walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 221.5 miles.  pm tm run 4.8 miles, ytd run 470.3 miles)

 

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3 miles, pm slow treadmill run 3.2 miles.   ytd walk 220 miles, ytd run 465.5 miles)

“Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.” – Anna Jameson

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2 miles, ytd walk 217 miles,  afternoon tm virtual race 13.2 miles, ytd run 462.3 miles)

The old that is strong does not wither

 

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

     J.R.R. Tolkien

(daily ex. update, 3 walks totalling 6 miles, ytd walk 215 miles.  am tm run 1.1 miles, ytd run 449.1 miles)

“Never feel sorry for raising dragon-slayers in a time when there are actual dragons.” ― Unknown

 

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.1 mile, pm run 1.2 mile , ytd walk 209 miles, ytd run 448 miles)

“Let us put our minds together and see what kind of life we can make for our children.” — Sitting Bull I”

 (daily ex. update, another blustery day, morning dog walk 3.3 miles, ytd walk 207.9 miles.  pm tm 4.1 miles, ytd run 446.8 miles)

“Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.” ― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.1 miles on an extremely windy, blustery day,  ytd walk 204.6 miles.   afternoon tm run 3.5 miles, ytd run 442.7 miles)

And even if you made the tiniest of progress today, it still matters. Keep going.

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.1 miles, ytd walk 203.6 miles.  pm tm 3.2 miles, ytd run 439.2 miles.  an extremely windy day)

“Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.” — Grace Paley

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 4 miles, ytd walk 200.5 miles.  pm tm run 3.3 miles, ytd run 436 miles)

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

  (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 196.5 miles.  pm tm long run 11 miles, ytd run 432.7 miles)

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

 (daily ex update, morning walk 3.5 miles, ytd walk 194 miles, pm tm run 3.2 miles, ytd run 421.7 miles)

poisson d avril= April Fool

 Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

Charles Lamb

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.2 miles, ytd walk 190.5 miles.  pm tm 6.3 miles, ytd run 418.5 miles)    

     I watched the 2008 Clint Eastwood movie, Gran Torino, tonight while I was on the treadmill.  It was not what I was expecting, but I really enjoyed it.