“I came to believe that heroism is neither being perfect, nor doing something spectacular. In fact, it’s just the opposite: it’s regular, flawed human beings, choosing to put others before themselves, even at great cost, even if no one will ever know, even as they realize the walls might be closing in around them…People are wrong to say that we have no heroes left. Just as they have always been, they are all around us, choosing to do the right thing, no matter what.” —Heather Cox Richardson, historian, professor, and author,

 (daily ex. update, morning icy, snowy dog walk 1.5 miles,  pm tm 2.7 run miles. Snow flurries all afternoon)