“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” ― Antonio Gramsci

(daily ex. update, morning walk 3.7 miles, pm tm jog 4.7 miles) 

Some people were not put here to evolve. They are here to remind you what it looks like if you don't.

 (daily ex. update, Thursday 4 miles jog, Friday 3.6 miles jogged)

I spent 2 days waiting around the house for repairs to be done, but I at last have home phone and internet again!

“Every dogma has its day.” ― Anthony Burgess

 We can only hope!

(daily ex., update, morning rainy dog walk 1.5 miles, pm jog 4.4 miles)

“Nothing in this world operates the way you think it does. Banks do not loan money, governments are not empowered to protect you, the police department is not there to serve you, institutions of higher learning, colleges and educational institutes, are not there to educate you. The entire superstructure of civilization in the Western world is a combination of brilliantly put together and planned, well-planned, schemes to direct the minds of the people in such a way as to serve their masters.” ― Jordan Maxwell, Matrix of Power: Secrets of World Control

(daily ex. update, Tuesday, morning dog walk 3.5 miles, pm tm jog 5.5 miles)

/ Thomas Eliot / . "Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

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

“In diversity there is beauty and strength” — Maya Angelou

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 3.1 miles, pm tm jog 3.4 miles,)

You have 2 homes: Earth plus your body. Take care of them. Happy Earth Day.

 (daily ex. update, yesterday walk 1.6 miles, streaksaver jog 1.1 mile.  Today pm tm jog 4.5 miles.)

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” —André Gide

 (daily ex., windy chilly day, morning dog walk 2.2 miles, pm streak saver jog 1.1 miles)

One of the greatest pleasures found deep in nature is the sheer lack of Man.

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 3.5 miles, pm tm jog 2.5 miles, tired tonight)

“How I go to the wood

 

Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single
friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore
unsuitable.

I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds
or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of
praying, as you no doubt have yours.

Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit
on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds,
until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost
unhearable sound of the roses singing.

If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love
you very much.”

― Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

(daily ex., morning dog walk 2.6 miles, pm tm run 5.1 miles)

I will neither grow up or grow old. I will just age disgracefully...with a smile

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 2.5 miles, pm jog 4.5 miles)

“Let it go, let it leave, let it happen. Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway.” ― Rupi Kaur

 (daily ex, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, pm jog 4.2 miles)

Philip K Dick / . "Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don’t."

 (daily ex. update, yesterday walk 1.1 miles, pm jog 1.1 miles.  today walk 3.5 miles, pm jog 1 mile)

“Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.” ― Wole Soyinka, Selected Poems

 

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”

― Dwight D. Eisenhower

(daily ex., morning dog walk 3 miles, pm tm jog 3.5 miles)

I don't know if we will ever see a few together, but a group of porcupines is called a prickle.

  (daily ex. update, morning dog walk of 1.6 miles and jog of 2.4 miles)

“To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.” – Angela Davis

 Excellent quote!

(daily ex., morning dog walk 3 miles, pm jog 4.2 miles)

Chuckle of the day

  Jerome D Salinger /

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"All morons hate it when you call them a moron."

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles plus jog 1 mile, pm jog 3.2 miles)

“This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.” — St. Augustine

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.2 miles, pm jog 4.5 miles)

Buckminster Fuller / . "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 3.7 miles, pm jog 2.1 miles)

"Anything you can do, I can do vegan"...heard on a podcast today.

 After reading that quote, the Ethel Merman version of the song "Anything you can do" has been stuck in my brain all day.

                                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-bgYxMO5cY

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 4 miles, pm jog 2.5 miles)

“Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.” – Walter Cronkite

 We really need independent investigative journalism again.

(daily ex,update, morning dog walk 3.3 miles, pm streaksaver slow jog 1.1 miles)

“Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

 (daily ex, update, morning dog walk 0.5 miles, pm tm run 5miles)

"Haba na haba hujaza kibaba." —Swahili proverb meaning “little by little fills the pot,”

 (daily ex. update, snowy cold morning dog walk 1.2 miles, pm jog 2.5 miles)

There are no kings in America. Only gilded men we can topple again and again.

There are no kings in America

Aileen Cassinetto

 we are not that kind of country.

We are sanctuary for the hungry,

the homeless, the huddled,

held together by an idea

our immigrant fathers believed in.

Rendered, it meant independence.

Pursued, it kindled war, ordinance,

a fighting chance. Forty thousand

musket balls, by themselves, did not

shape the boundaries on which we

map our days. To draw our borders,

we needed more than firecakes.

More than a pound of meat

with bone and gristle,

or salt fish and a gill of peas.

We needed the faith and grit of people

who were not yet Americans.

To be an American is to

recognize the sacrifice

of the widow and the orphan;

it is to understand the weft of tent

cities expecting caravans,

and the heft of a child in a camp

not meant for children, or sitting

before a judge awaiting judgement.

What do we say to the native

whose lands we now inhabit?

What do we say to our immigrant

fathers who held certain truths

to be self-evident?

Do we now still pledge to each

other our lives, our fortunes,

our sacred honor.

There are no kings in America.

Only gilded men we can topple

again and again.

/ Voltaire / . "Every man is a creature of the age in which lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of time."

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 4.5 miles, pm slow run tm 2.5 miles)

Marcus Aurelius: You Can Commit Injustice By Doing Nothing

 (daily ex. morning dog walk 2.1 miles, pm tm long jog 8.4 miles)

“Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we're here we may as well dance.” ― Jeanne C. Stein, Blood Drive

 (beautiful day today, morning dog walk and fleet feet walk, 4.5 miles, pm slow jog 3 miles)