Alis Volat Propriis----She flies with her own wings.

 What a great phrase.

(incidentally this is the Oregon State motto as well)

(I was away for the weekend. I'm trying to get back into a routine and catch up on sleep. Daily ex. update pm tm run 3.2 miles.  Over the weekend I did minimal streak saver runs on hotel tm) 

Teaching children about ideas you may not agree with isn't indoctrination. Teaching children only about ideas you agree with, that's the very definition of indoctrination.

(daily ex. update, getting ex. out of the way early, treadmill run 1.2 miles, dog walk 1 mile)

“The important thing about “brave” is, it doesn’t mean you’re not terrified.” — Sinead O'Connor

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

You don't become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way of being cool. This is called the Geezer's Paradox.

 (daily ex. morning dog walk 3.8 miles, pm tm jog 3.5 miles)

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” ― Victor Borge

 (daily ex., hot morning dog walk 1 mi., pm tm jog 3 miles)

“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.” – J.P. Morgan

 (daily ex. update, early morning dog walk 2.2 miles while it was still cool, pm streaksaver jog 1.1 mile)

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it." -Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk in the heat 2 miles, pm tm jog 5 miles)

 The little girl just could not sleep because her thoughts were way too deep, her mind had gone out for a stroll and fallen down the rabbit hole – Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland

(daily ex. update,morning walks 4 miles, pm tm 2.6 miles)

 

“Motto"

In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.”

― Bertolt Brecht

and more:

“First of all, they came to take the gypsies
and I was happy because they pilfered.
Then they came to take the Jews and I said nothing,
because they were unpleasant to me.
Then they came to take homosexuals,
and I was relieved, because they were annoying me.
Then they came to take the Communists,
and I said nothing because I was not a Communist.
One day they came to take me,
and there was nobody left to protest.

Bertold Brecht, inspired by Emil Gustav Friedrich Martin Niemöller”
― Bertold Brecht

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

I am not strong on perfection.----Jasper Johns

 (daily ex., not much, morning dog walk only 0.3 miles plus 20 min of pulling weeds before thunderstorm rolled in, pm slow streaksaver jog 1.1 mile)

“Good morning. Eyes up. Hearts up. Minds sharp. Compassion on full blast. Okay, let's go.” ― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.1 miles, pm jog 2.1 miles)

“Fear is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.” —Renata Adler, author, journalist, and film critic.

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk in the heat 1.6 miles, pm tm jog 5 miles)

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” Frida Kahlo

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2 hot miles, pm streak saver jog 1.1 miles)

Best things I read today......

 The cost of inaction is the status quo.

Action is expensive, but inaction costs a fortune.

The difference between failure and success is often just staying with a problem a little longer.

One more rep.

One more step.

One more minute.

One more revision.

One more attempt.

The difference between average and outstanding is often just one more.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1 mile, pm tm jog 6 miles)

Haba haba, Hujaza Kibaba

 Swahili for "little by little fills the measure"

(daily ex. update, morning walk 3.7 miles, pm tm jog 3 miles)

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 miles, pm tm slow jog 5 miles)

“Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.” ― Rabindranath Tagore

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.2 miles, slow, my dog is still limping, we kept to the shade;  pm tm jog 2.3 miles)

 Do not ask your children

to strive for extraordinary lives.

Such striving may seem admirable,

but it is the way of foolishness.

Help them instead to find the wonder

and the marvel of an ordinary life.

Show them the joy of tasting

tomatoes, apples and pears.

Show them how to cry

when pets and people die.

Show them the infinite pleasure

in the touch of a hand.

And make the ordinary come alive for them.

The extraordinary will take care of itself. ~William Martin

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.2 miles, very slow, my dog is suddenly limping today, and it is very hot. pm tm jog 5.6 miles)

“Fear is the little dark room where negatives are developed.” ― Michael Pritchard

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.1 miles, pm tm jog 3 miles)

“For most of history, anonymous was a woman.” ― Virginia Woolf

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.1 miles, pm tm jog 5.1 miles with cooldown walk 1.5 miles)

Kurt Vonnegut / . "If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off."

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2. miles, pm tm jog 4.7 miles with 2.2 miles cooldown walk)

Nothing can be done except little by little. Charles Baudelaire

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 3.7 miles, pm slow jog 3.1 miles)

My ducks are absolutely not in a row. I don't even know where some of them are. And I'm pretty sure one is a pigeon.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.6 miles, pm slow jog 4.1 miles.  ytd total run walk 1129,8 toward 2023 mile goal) 

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” ― Terry Pratchett

 and other animals as things, as well.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.5 miles, pm tm jog 4.5 miles)

It's probably my age that tricks people into thinking I'm an adult.

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1 mile, pm jog 4 miles, drizzly day)

“To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.” ― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.1 miles, pm streak saver jog 1.1 miles)

Rudyard Kipling / . "Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for non of these things. Then you will know how poor you are."

 (daily ex. morning dog walk 4.2 miles to wear out my dog,  pm tm 6.5 miles watching loud movie to keep my dog from being frightened by nearby fireworks, one more day of this and she'll be safe)

“We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.” ― Winston S. Churchill

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

Ayn Rand / . "Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell."

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 3.7 miles, pm tm 3.5 miles)