The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” ― Arundhati Roy, War Talk

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2 miles, ytd walk 497.8 miles,  pm tm jog 2 miles, ytd run 979.5 miles)

My favorite childhood memory is having energy.

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2 miles, ytd walk 495.8 miles, pm tm jog 4 miles, ytd run 977.5 miles)

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 493.8 miles,  pm tm jog 4.5 miles, ytd run 973.5 miles)

“Never fool yourself, and remember that you are the easiest person to fool.” ― Richard Feynman

 

“We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules.”
― Richard Feynman

“The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is the most interesting.”
― Richard Feynman

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.1 miles, ytd walk 491.3 miles.  pm tm jog 3.5 miles, ytd run 969 miles)

“If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.” ― Francois Rabelais

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 4. miles, ytd walk 488.2 miles, pm tm jog 4.5 miles, ytd run 965.5 miles)

There are roughly 6500 spoken languages in the world, but we all sound the same when laughing.

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 484.2 miles, afternoon tm jog 3.5 miles, ytd run 961 miles)

We are all just a work in progress.

 (ex update, morning dog walk 3.6 miles, ytd walk 481.7 miles.  pm tm slow jog 5.5 miles, ytd run 957.5 miles)

"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." Bertrand Russell

 (daily ex. update, walk 3.6 miles, ytd walk 478.1 miles.  afternoon tm jog 3.4 miles, ytd run 952 miles)

Sometimes....money costs too much.

 This was my fortune cookie fortune from lunch.   Wisest fortune ever!

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.7 miles, ytd walk 474.5 miles, pm tm jog 5.1 miles, ytd run 948.6 miles)

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 471.8 miles, pm tm jog 3.1 miles, ytd run 943.5 miles)

“Don’t let anyone treat you like regular glue. You’re glitter glue, baby!” ✨ - Bradley Rose

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 4 miles, ytd walk 468.8 miles,  pm tm jog 5.3 miles, ytd run 940.4 miles)

 “It will never get easier,”

What happens is you handle hard better.”

(daily ex. update, morning walk 3.8 miles, ytd walk 464.8 miles, pm tm 2.2 miles run, ytd run 935.1 miles)

History is a vast early warning system. Norman Cousins

 Of course in Republican states it is not allowed to be taught in schools.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 461 miles,  pm tm 4 miles, ytd run 932.9 miles.  The morning walk totally tired out my dog! )

"I came home and my dog peed a little because she was so happy to see me.  None of my friends pee when they see me.  I am surrounded by fakes."

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.” ― Neil Gaiman, A Game of You

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 458 miles. afternoon tm jog 3.5 miles, ytd run 928.9 miles, getting back at it)

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 455 miles,  pm tm jog 3.5 miles, ytd run 925.4 miles)

“A poem will not stop a bullet, a novel cannot defuse a bomb,” Salman Rushdie said. But writers can still “sing the truth, and name the lies.”

      I'm sorry I've been away so long but I've had no internet service until today. I really missed the online connections.

      Also I've taken a slowdown in running to heal some niggles in my hip (my medical diagnosis).  But I'm back.

      (exercise update, today I walked the dog only 0.5 miles as I was awaiting the internet line technician for most of the day, but I ran 3.8 miles this eve. on the treadmill.  My ytd walk total is 452.5 miles, ytd run total is 921.9 miles.)

Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way! - Valentina Tereshkova.

To be silent the whole day, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. ~Henry Miller

 Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said..

A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made..

Or a garden planted..

Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die,

and when people look at that tree

or that flower you planted, you're there..

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something

from the way it was before you touched it

into something that's like you

after you take your hands away..

The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said..

The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all..

the gardener will be there a lifetime..

-Ray Bradbury

(daily ex. update, morning walk 4.1 miles, afternoon tm run 1.2 streaksaver miles)

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence.” ― R. Arnold

(daily ex. morning dog walk 1.8 miles, afternoon tm run 3.2 miles)

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.” – Zora Neale Hurston

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2 miles, pm tm run 4.6 miles)

“We should all be eating fruits and vegetables as if our lives depend on it – because they do.” — Michael Greger

 Also from Dr. Michael Greger:  The best-kept secret in medicine.  Sometimes, given the right conditions, the body can heal itself.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.2 miles, ytd walk 430.2 miles, pm tm run 5.3 miles, ytd run 894.3 miles. am trying to front load my week's miles as I won't be running much on the weekend or next week)

“It reached the boat. Long clammy fingers grabbed the side, and a lugubrious face rose level with Nanny Ogg’s. ‘’ullo,’ it said. ‘It’sss my birthday.” — Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett

 It'sss my birthday!

I want to age like sea glass.

Smoothed by tides, not broken. I want the currents of life to toss me around, shake me up and leave me feeling washed clean.

I want my hard edges to soften as the years pass , made not weak but supple. I want to ride the waves, go with the flow, feel the impact of the surging tides rolling in and out.

When I am thrown against the shore and caught between the rocks and a hard place, I want to rest there until I can find the strength to do what is next. Not stuck . just waiting, pondering, feeling what it feels like to pause. And when I am ready, I will catch a wave and let it carry me along to the next place that I am supposed to be.

I want to be picked up on occasion by an unsuspected soul and carried along , just for the connection, just for the sake of appreciation and wonder. And with each encounter, new possibilities of collaboration are presented, and new ideas are born.

I want to age like sea glass so that when people see the old woman I’ll become, they’ll embrace all that I am. They’ll marvel at my exquisite nature, hold me gently in their hands and be awed by my well-earned patina. Neither flashy nor dull, just a perfect lustre. And they’ll wonder, if just for a second, what it is exactly I am made of and how I got to this very here and now. And we’ll both feel lucky to be in that perfectly right place at that profoundly right time.

I want to age like sea glass. I want to enjoy the journey and let my preciousness be, not in spite of the impacts of life, but because of them ..

~ Bernadette Noll ~

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.3 miles, afternoon tm run 7.1 miles for my birthday)

“No matter what the fight, don’t be ladylike!” — Mother Jones

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, pm tm run 3.1 miles)