“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 424.2 miles. pm tm long run 6.5 miles, ytd run 878.8 miles.  run/walk total=1303 miles toward 2021 mile goal)

Even monkeys fall from trees.....Japanese Proverb

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 4.1 miles, ytd walk 421.7 miles, pm tm run 4.6 miles, ytd run 872.3 miles)

“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” – W.H. Auden

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.6 miles, ytd walk 417.6 miles.  afternoon tm run 5 miles, ytd run 867.7 miles)

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 415 miles.  pm tm run 5.5 miles, ytd run 862.7 miles)

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.” ― Ellen Glasgow

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.2 miles, pm jog 1.3 miles)

“I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.” ― Anaïs Nin

 (daily ex. update morning dog walk 2.1 miles, pm slow jog 1.1 miles to save streak)

“Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.” ― Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.2 miles, pm tm run 2.6 miles)

Your patience is your power ~ k tolnoe .

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.1 miles, ytd walk 407 miles.  pm tm long run 6.2 miles, ytd run 852.2 miles.  total = 1259.2 miles toward 2022 goal)

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.” ― Aldous Huxley

 (daily ex. update, walk 4 miles over 2 walks, ytd walk 404.9 miles.  pm tm 3.3 miles run, ytd run 846 miles)

“When people throw stones at you, don't throw them back. Collect them all and build an empire.” ― Anonymous

 (daily ex. update, dog walk a.m. 2.2 miles, ytd walk 400.9 miles,  pm tm run 3.4 miles, ytd run 842.7 miles)

“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” — Robin Williams

 Robin Williams   July 21, 1951 - August 11, 2014

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 398.7 miles, afternoon tm run 4.6 miles, ytd run 839.3 miles)

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.” ― Terry Pratchett

 (daily ex. update, walk dog 2.4 miles, ytd walk 396.2 miles.  pm tm run 2.6 miles, ytd run 834.7 miles)

“Scars are the proof you're stronger than what tried to hurt you, duckling. Don't be ashamed of them” ― August Clearwing, Never Have I Ever

 (daily ex. update, walk 1.7 miles, ytd walk 393.8 miles.  pm tm 4.5 miles, ytd run 832.1 miles. total 1225.9 miles, on my way to 2022 miles in 2022)

“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.” – Plato

 Clearly!

(daily ex. update, dog walk 2.2 miles, pm slow jog 1.1 miles streak saver)

"And the boy loved the tree... very much. And the tree was happy." - 'The Giving Tree' by Shel Silverstein.

 (daily ex. update, walk 4.7 miles, ytd walk 389.9 miles.  2 runs = 5.6 miles, ytd run 826.5 miles)

"You've got more than money and sense, my friend: you've got heart."

 (daily ex. update, walk 4.1 miles, ytd walk 385.2 miles.  pm tm run 1.4 miles, ytd run 820.9 miles. Injury improving but still needing ibuprofen, but it is better)

Something to think about:

 “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.”--Paul Coelho

(daily ex. update, walk 2.7 mi, ytd walk 381.1 miles,  pm tm run 4 miles, ytd run 819.5 miles)

“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.” – Thomas Hardy

 (daily ex update, morning walk 2 miles, pm tm 4.5 mi)

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” – Isaac Newton

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 376.4 miles,  pm tm jog 2.3 miles, ytd run 811 miles)

“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come depend on what you do today. It’s been that way all this year. It’s been that way so many times.” —Ernest Hemingway, For Whom The Bell Tolls

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 3 miles, ytd walk 373.9 miles, pm tm jog 3.3 miles, ytd run 808.7 miles)

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” – Elbert Hubbard

 (daily ex. update, dog walk 2.2 miles, pm tm slow jog 3.1 miles)

Eleanor Roosevelt:

 “One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

(daily ex. update, dog walk 2.3 miles, pm tm slow run 4 miles)

"Man’s inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals." — George Bernard Shaw

 (daily ex. update, walk 4.1 miles in 3 walks, pm slow tm run 3.4 miles)

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.” ― Vincent van Gogh

 (daily ex., 2 walks=3 miles, pm tm 2.2 miles)

“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.” – Henry David Thoreau

 (daily ex., 2 walks=3.7 miles, pm tm 3.2 miles)

“You cannot save anyone. You can be present with them, offer your groundedness, your sanity, your peace. You can even share your path with them, offer your perspective. But you cannot take away their pain. You cannot walk their path for them. You cannot give answers that are right for them, or even answers they can digest right now. They will have to find their own answers…" Jeff Foster

 (daily ex., 2 slow walks of 2.1 mi each, pm slow jog 2.4 miles)

“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” ― Maximilien Robespierre

 (ex. update, dog walk 1 mile, pm jog 1.1 mile)

“To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.” ― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

 “This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”

Walt Whitman - Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.7 miles, pm slow jog 2.3 miles, still trying to shake this back/hip injury. skipped my July 4th 5k race, I thought it was prudent)

Due to a shortage of actual independence, July 4th has been moved to November 8th this year.

 (daily ex. walk 1.8 miles, pm jog 1.5 miles,  still injured, painful, but trying)

Embrace the glorious mess that you are......Elizabeth Gilbert

 (daily ex., walk 3.3 miles,  pm slow jog 1.1 mile, hip/back worse)

I'm older now but still running against the wind........Bob Seger

 (daily ex. update, walk 1.5 miles in 2 walks, tm run 4.7 miles, still trying, injury maybe better)