"If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us." ~ Franz Kafka

 (daily ex. update, wild high winds and fire danger day, morning dog walk 1.2 miles, pm jog 1.5 miles)

Martin Luther King, Jr., reminded us that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

 Today is an example of that. 

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, pm tm run 4.4 miles.  It was a high wind and high fire danger day, tomorrow will be the same.)  

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." H.G.Wells

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 miles, pm tm run 2.5 miles)

Thoughts and prayers are useless to dead children.

 (daily ex. update, nicer day, morning dog walk 3.1 miles, pm tm run 4.5 miles)

“Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small—small” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.6 miles, pm jog 1.1 streak saver miles)

And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.” ― Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

 (daily ex, update, morning dog walk 2 miles and jog w dog 1 mile,  pm long run tm 7 miles)

“An evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes” Sun Tzu

 (daily ex., morning walks with dog and Fleet Feet group 4.1 miles, pm tm jog 2.6 miles)

“People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.” - Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

 (daily ex. update, morning WOG with my dog 3.7 miles, pm tm run 3.5 miles)

 Sometimes to stop

 Eating all the 

 Chocolate,

 One must first

 Eat all the chocolate.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.3 miles, afternoon tm run 3.7 miles, tired today)

We have deep depth.......Yogi Berra

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.1 miles, pm tm run 4.5 miles)

“The first day of spring is one thing and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.” ― Henry Van Dyke

 

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.3 miles, pm tm run 3.7 miles)

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.” ― George Bernard Shaw

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.2 miles, pm jog 2.3 miles. Did get all my tax info together and turned in to a cpa)

 It is the job of the creator to explode. It is the task of the academic to walk around the bomb site, gathering up the shrapnel, to figure out what kind of an explosion it was, who was killed, how much damage it was meant to do and how close it came to actually achieving that.......Neil Gaiman

(daily ex update, morning brisk walk with dog, 1.1 miles, pm jog 2.2 miles, spent the day collecting financial info for doing my taxes)

I know this is a shocker to some, but if there is a book you don't want to read....you don't have to check it out. You don't have to burn down the whole library.

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 4 miles, pm tm run 5 miles)

“Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine,” is an Irish saying that translates literally as “People live in each other's shadows.” Meaning, we are shielded from the sun by each other, we rely on each other for shelter. People need each other.

 Happy St. Patrick's Day.

(daily ex., dog walk .5 miles,  pm tm 4.5 miles, have been out of town this week, sorry for no daily updates)

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away. Sir Terry Pratchett

 (daily ex. morning dog walk 2.1 miles, afternoon tm run 3.6 miles)

"Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything." Leonardo Da Vnci

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.7 miles, pm slow jog 5.2 miles)

Maybe actually plants are farming us, giving us oxygen until we eventually die, decompose and they can consume us

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 2.5 miles, pm jog 4.6 miles slow)

A sense of destiny is a terrible thing. Jim Harrison

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.1 miles, pm jog 3.2 miles)

“Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.” ― Kahlil Gibran

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.7 miles, pm tm run 4.7 miles)

“Here’s to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.”

 Happy International Women's Day.

Here's to strong women.

May we know them.

May we raise them.

May we run with them.

(daily ex. morning dog walk 3.6 miles, afternoon slow tm jog 5.2 miles)

“Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.” ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Miles in Love

 (daily ex., morning chilly dog walk 2.5 miles, pm slow jog 3.1 miles)

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

 (daily ex. update, 2 dog walks = 3 miles;  pm tm slow run 3.2 miles,tired today)

“Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” ― Chinese Proverb

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 3.5 miles, pm tm run 5.2 miles)

“He famously defended fairy stories against those who said they told children that there were monsters; children already know that there are monsters, he said, and fairy stories teach them that monsters can be killed. We now know that the monsters may not simply have scales and sleep under a mountain. They may be in our own heads.” — #TerryPratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 3.5 miles, pm tm streak saver run 1.1 miles, ytd run and walk total =400 miles towards 2023 mile goal)

“First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit is persistence in practice.” —Octavia Butler, award-winning science fiction author

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.1 miles, pm tm run 4.5 miles)

 

Sanctuary

My land is bare of chattering folk;
 The clouds are low along the ridges,
And sweet's the air with curly smoke
 From all my burning bridges.

             Dorothy Parker

(daily ex. morning dog walk 2 miles, pm tm 3.1 miles)

“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.” ― C. S. Lewis

 (daily ex. update, chilly morning walk with dog 1.8 miles, pm tm 4.5 miles)