Don't be afraid of witches. Be afraid of the ones who burned tham.

 (daily ex update, am tm 1.2 miles, ytd run 1091.9 miles, walk 1 mile, ytd walk 597.3 miles)

I'd rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.3 miles, ytd walk 596.3 miles, afternoon run 3.2 miles on tm, ytd run 1090.7 miles)

“Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy.” —H.L. Mencken

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.5 miles, ytd walk 594 miles.  pm slow streak saver run 1.1 miles, ytd run 1087.5 miles.  covid booster shot today)

A person's a person no matter how small......Dr. Seuss

 A few GOP governors need to re-read their Dr. Seuss! Or have they banned that too?

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 4.8 miles, ytd walk 590.5 miles, pm tm run 1.8 miles, ytd run 1086.4 miles)

“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience. Deepak Chopra.

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 4.5 miles, pm tm run 1.5 miles)

 As life goes on it becomes

tiring to keep up the character

you invented for yourself ...

And so you relapse into individuality

and become more like yourself

everyday.

- Agatha Christie, An Autobiography

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 4.7 miles, ytd walk 581.2 miles, p.m. tm run 6.7 miles, ytd run 1083.1 miles)

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wow! I've never looked at it this way.

(daily ex. update, morning walk 3.6 miles, ytd walk 576.5 miles, pm tm streaksaver run 1.3 miles, ytd run 1076.4 miles) 

 It may not be a pleasure exactly,

but it’s your solemn duty

to live one more day

to spite the enemy.

—Nâzim Hikmet

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.7 miles, ytd walk 572.9 miles. pm tm 4.4 miles run, ytd run 1075.1 miles)

“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.” ― Rumi

 (daily ex update, morning misty dog walk 3.5 miles, ytd walk 569.2 miles,  pm tm run 3.1 miles, ytd run 1070.7)

“The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.” – Queen Elizabeth II

 (daily ex. update, morning walk dog walk on a cooler day 5.2 miles, ytd walk 565.7 miles, pm tm run 4.5 miles, ytd run 1067.6 miles)

“The more you know, the less you need.”

 —Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, in “Let My People Go Surfing.” Chouinard, a crotchety old outdoorsman known for walking the talk and putting his money where his mouth is, gave away his company last week in order to preserve Patagonia’s values in perpetuity and fight the environmental crisis.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.8 miles, ytd walk 560.5 miles.  pm tm jog 3.3 miles, ytd run 1063.1 miles)

“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.” – Cicero

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.3 miles, ytd walk 556.7 miles, pm tm 3.2 miles run, ytd run 1059.8 miles)

"It's the road signs, 'Beware of lions.' " Kip Lagat, Kenyan distance runner, during the Sydney Olympics, explaining why his country produces so many great runners.

 (daily ex. update, morning hike with dog 3.2 miles, ytd walk 553.4 miles.  pm tm run 3.6 miles, ytd run 1056.6 miles)

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself." Virginia Woolf

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 miles, plus 5.6 mile hike with friends at Staunton State Park, pm tm streaksaver run 2 miles.  ytd walk 550.2 miles, ytd run 1053 miles)

"The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.” Arnold Bennett

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 543.1 miles, pm tm run 1.5 miles, ytd run 1051 miles)

“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be... This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages... Far too many people misunderstand what 'putting away childish things' means, and think that forgetting what it is like to think and feel and touch and smell and taste and see and hear like a three-year-old or a thirteen-year-old or a twenty-three-year-old means being grownup. When I'm with these people I, like the kids, feel that if this is what it means to be a grown-up, then I don't ever want to be one. Instead of which, if I can retain a child's awareness and joy, and 'be' fifty-one, then I will really learn what it means to be grownup.” Madeleine L'Engle

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 541.6 miles,  afternoon tm run 5.6 miles, ytd run 1049.5 miles)

HaHaHaHa

 “There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw

(daily ex update, morning dog walk 1.5 miles, pm streak saver 1 mile jog)

You can't burn out if you never catch fire.....Bob Hodge

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3. miles, pm cooldown tm walk 1.2 miles,  pm tm run 4.8 miles, ytd walk 537.6 miles,  ytd run 1042.9 miles)

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. Segal's Law

 (history:Supposedly, the saying was coined by the San Diego Union on September 20, 1930: "Confusion.—Retail jewelers assert that every man should carry two watches. But a man with one watch knows what time it is, and a man with two watches could never be sure." Later this was — mistakenly — attributed to Lee Segall of KIXL, then to be misquoted again by Arthur Bloch as "Segal's Law)

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.5 miles, ytd walk 533.4 miles.  pm tm run 2.7 miles, ytd run 1038.1 miles)

"When you see someone doing something that doesn’t make sense to you, ask yourself what the world would have to look like to you for those actions to make sense." — @ShaneAParrish

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3 miles, pm tm long run 11 miles)

‘Look, we talk a lot about winning and losing in our society and the real thing is to endure, and to stick around, and to stay in the game.’

 “But you cannot control everything...All you can do is face the world with quiet grace and hope you make a sliver of difference...You must trust that you being the best possible you matters somehow...That being an attentive and generous friend and citizen will prevent a thread or two of the social fabric from unraveling.”

― Brian Doyle

(daily ex. update, morning walk 3.7 miles, pm cool down tm walk 1.2 miles, pm tm run 1.1 streak saver miles. )

"But what can I do, I am just one person" said 7 billion people.

 (First chilly day.  Morning dog walk 3.5 miles, plus pm tm cooldown walk 1 mile, pm tm run 2.5 miles)

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.....Jimmy Buffett

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, pm cooldown walk 1 mile.  ytd walk 517.5 miles.  pm tm jog 5 miles, ytd run 1020.8 miles)

"You don't have to win all your fights, but you must fight them all." - Damon West

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.7 miles, ytd walk 514 miles, pm jog tm 5.3 miles, ytd run 1015.8 miles)

“Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.” ― Terry Pratchett

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.2 miles, morning slow jog with dog 2.5 miles, pm tm run 3.1 miles)

“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.” Maya Angelou

 (daily ex update, morning dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk 509.1 miles. pm tm jog 3.6 miles, ytd run 1004.9 miles)

We don't talk about trees getting older, we say they are growing. Let's use the same language for ourselves. We are not getting older, we are growing. ~ Sue Fitzmaurice.

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.3 miles, ytd walk 506.1 miles.  pm tm slow long run 10.6 miles, ytd run 1001.3 miles.  this was run streak day 2924, 8 years done, starting year 9, over those 8 years I've run a total of 14,452 miles or 4.94 miles per day average)

...unless I am myself, I am nobody. Virginia Woolf

 (morning dog walk 2.7 miles, pm slow jog 1 streak saver mile)

Cleaning with a dog in your house is like brushing your teeth while eating oreos. So Much Dog Hair.

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 501.1 miles.  pm tm run 4.4 miles, ytd run 989.7 miles)

I love how the air changes....you can feel it, you can smell it, and suddenly it is autumn. Melody Lee

 (morning dog walk 0.8 miles, ytd walk 498.6 miles.  pm tm jog 5.8 miles, ytd run 985.3 miles)