“Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.” ― Walt Whitman

 Road trip fun!  But glad to be home.

(ex update, did very little while gone, year to date walk 296.5 miles,  did some streak saver miles while absent, ytd run 676.3 miles)

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov

 (daily ex. update, early tm run 3.1 miles, ytd run 671.1 miles, walk 1 mile, ytd walk 295.5 miles)

“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.” ― Johannes Brahms

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1 mi, ytd walk 294.5 miles.  pm streaksaver slow jog 1.2 miles, ytd run 668 miles)

“When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.” ― Lin Yutang

 (daily ex. update, walk 1 mile, ytd walk 293.5 miles.  pm tm run 4.5 miles, ytd run 666.8 miles. Collected some of the big downed branches from last weekend's storm.  That was tiring. Have more to go but some are too heavy for me)

“There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.” – Nelson Mandela

(daily ex. update, dog walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 292.5 miles.  pm slow jog 4.5 miles, ytd run 662.3 miles)

“All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.” – Mahatma Gandhi

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 1.1 miles, ytd walk 291 miles.  pm slow jog 4.1 miles, ytd run 657.8 miles)

“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ” ― James Baldwin

 Read that again. It is genius.

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” – Kahlil Gibran

(daily ex. update, morning walk 1 mile, ytd walk 289.9 miles.  pm slow jog 3.1 miles, ytd run 653.7 miles)

“Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.” ― Harry Dresden

 

“Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”

― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“...Human beings, little bags of thinking water held up briefly by fragile accumulations of calcium...”

― Terry Pratchett

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 miles, out to view the downed branches and trees from the weekend heavy snows, ytd walk 288.9 miles.  3 short treadmill runs of 1.6, 3, and 4 miles in lieu of a long run, ytd run 650.6 miles)

"Courage, dear heart." C.S. Lewis

 (major snow last night, lots of tree branches down.   pm jog 3.6 miles, ytd run 642 miles)

“What is done in love is done well.” ― Vincent van Gogh

 (snowy snowy day.  jog 1.5 miles to save streak, ytd run 638.4 miles)

"The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough." - Colum McCann

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 2 miles, ytd walk 287.4 miles.  afternoon run 3.5 miles, ytd run 636.9 miles)

First rule of Introvert Club: There is no Introvert Club. Thank God.

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.7 miles, ytd walk 285.4 miles.  afternoon tm run 5.3 miles, ytd run 633.4 miles)

“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.” ― Ayn Rand

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 282.7 miles, pm run 5.1 tm miles, ytd run 628.1 miles)

“The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished." Kevin Kelly

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 281.2 miles.  pm run 3.1 miles, ytd run 623 miles)

You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain. - Tom Hiddleston

 (daily ex update, walk 3.1 miles, ytd walk 279.7 miles.  pm tm run 10.1 miles, ytd run 619.9 miles)

"We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." Will Rogers

 (daily ex., walk 3 miles, ytd walk 276.6 miles.  pm jog 2.5 miles, ytd run 609.8 miles)

Trust is built in drops and lost in buckets. KEVIN A. PLANK

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.6 miles, ytd walk 273.6 miles.  afternoon tm run 3.4 miles, pm tm run 3.1 miles, ytd run 607.3 miles)

“Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.” — Terry Pratchett

 (daily ex. update, dog walk 2.5 miles in a.m., ytd walk 271 miles.  pm slow jog 3.5 miles, ytd run 600.8 miles.)

Be water, my friend.

 

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

― Bruce Lee

(daily ex. no walk, pm jog 1.5 slow miles, injured hamstring, ytd run 597.3 miles)

When I was young, I was slow. But after years of hard work, I am no longer young.

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.8 miles, ytd walk 268.5 miles.  afternoon tm run 6.6 miles, ytd run 595.8 miles) 

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?” ― Albert Einstein

 (daily ex update, morning walk 1.8 miles, ytd walk 266.7 miles, pm slow jog 2.6 miles, ytd run 589.2 miles)

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

 „In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.“ —  George Orwell

(daily ex. update, morning walk 1 mile, ytd walk 264.9 miles.  3 runs of 1 mi., 9.7 mi., and 2.8 miles =13.5miles. ytd run 586.6 miles)

…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 fucking furious. Sophie Heawood

 (daily ex. update, walk 3.3 miles, ytd walk 263.9 miles.  pm jog 2.3 miles, ytd run 573.1 miles)

“The more laws, the less justice.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 260.6 miles.  pm jog 2 miles streak saver, ytd run 570.8 miles)

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2 miles.  ytd walk 258.1 miles.  pm tm run 6.5 miles, ytd run 568.8 miles)

“What fresh hell is this?” ― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

 “Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”

― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.”

― Methodist Pastor David Barnhart

(daily ex. update, chilly damp day, no walk.  pm slow treadmill run 2 miles, ytd run 562.3 miles)

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” ― Albert Einstein

     When it doesn't seem right, go left.

(daily ex. update, walk 3.5 miles from 2 walks, ytd walk 256.1 miles.  afternoon treadmill run 5.5 miles, ytd run 560.3 miles)

“People change and forget to tell each other.” ― Lillian Hellman

 (daily ex. update, morning chilly dog walk 1 mile, ytd walk 252.6 miles,  pm tm run 3.2 miles, ytd run 554.8 miles)

This time, the disaster was somewhere else. The disaster was always somewhere else, until it wasn’t. Liza Katz Duncan

 (daily ex. update, morning run with dog 4 miles and walk 0.5 miles.  pm tm run 7 miles.  ytd run 551.6 miles, ytd walk 251.6 miles)