Life is very weird right now.

 You have to be careful who you trust and allow yourself around.

Bye

If Adam Picked the Apple, by Danielle Coffyn

 If Adam Picked the Apple

There would be a parade,

a celebration,

a holiday to commemorate

the day he sought enlightenment.

We would not speak of

temptation by the devil, rather,

we would laud Adam’s curiosity,

his desire for adventure

and knowing.

We would feast

on apple-inspired fare:

tortes, chutneys, pancakes, pies.

There would be plays and songs

reenacting his courage.

But it was Eve who grew bored,

weary of her captivity in Eden.

And a woman’s desire

for freedom is rarely a cause

for celebration.

(daily ex, morning stretching, morning 1.6 mi walk, pm slow jog 2.1 mi)

“An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.” ― Madalyn Murray O'Hair

 (daily ex., morning yoga, afternoon 1.5 mi walk, pm tm jog 2.5 mi)

“Love is what you've been through with somebody” ― James Thurber

 (daily ex, morning yoga, pm slow jog/walk 5.3 mi)

Hard times require furious dancing.

 (daily ex, morning tm jog 1.1 mi,  a.m. pumpkin pie relay walk 0.5 mi, a little stretching)

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” ― Margaret Atwood

That is why women always choose the bear.

(daily ex, morning stretching, 15 min easy step aerobics, 1.1 mi jog streak saver, 1.5 mi walk)

Don’t walk too far away from the child within you, and never abandon the sense of wonder that magnifies the smallest of things into mountains of joy. For one day, when you lose sight of happiness, that child within can guide you back to the things that once nourished your heart .. ~ Dodinsky ~

 (daily ex., morning stretching, pm 1 mi slow streak saver jog)

Your roots are intact. You'll flower again.

 (daily ex., morning stretching, pm jog 1.5 mi, slow walk 2.5 mi, trying to heal my knee)

”Nothing is less important in life than the score at halftime.”

 (daily ex, yoga/gentle stretching, pm slow streak saver jog 1 mi, slow walk 3 mi., rehabbing knee)

Never seek revenge. Rotten fruit will fall by itself.

 (daily ex, brief stretching, pm very slow jog 1 mi, slow walk 4.6 mi., I re-injured my knee yesterday)

“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.” ― Marcus Aurelius

 (daily ex., morning stretching just a bit, pm streaksaver jog)

“You're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them-if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.” ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

(daily ex, tm jog 1.2 mi, morning walk 3 mi, afternoon stretching)

"Less Noise, More Green," JRR Tolkien

 (daily ex, morning stretching, pm jog 4.6 mi slowly)

 "Each year they parade her about, The traditional Halloween witch.

Misshapen green face, stringy scraps of hair, A toothless mouth beneath her disfigured nose. Gnarled knobby fingers twisted into a claw protracting form. A bent and twisted torso that lurches about on wobbly legs.

Most think this is abject image to be the creation of a prejudiced mind or merely a Halloween caricature, I disagree, I believe this to be how witches were really seen.

Consider that most witches were women, were abducted in the night and smuggled into dungeons or prisons under secrecy of darkness and presented by the light of day as a confessed witch.

Few, if any saw a frightened normal looking woman being dragged into a secret room filled with instruments of torture, to be questioned until she confessed to anything that was suggested to her, and to give names or say whatever would stop the questions.

Crowds saw the aberration denounced to the world as a self-proclaimed witch. As the witch was paraded through the town, in route to be burned, hanged, drowned, stoned, or disposed of in various, horrible ways, all created to free and save her soul from her depraved body.

The jeering crowds viewed the result of hours of torture. The face, bruised and broken by countless blows, bore a hue of sickly green. The once warm and loving smile gone, replaced by a grimace of broken teeth, and torn gums that leer beneath a battered disfigured nose.

The disheveled hair conceals bleeding gaps of torn scalp from whence cruel hands had torn away the lovely tresses. Broken, twisted hands clutched the wagon for support. Fractured fingers locked like cropping claws to steady her broken body.

All semblance of humanity gone. This was truly a demon, a bride of Satan, a witch.

I revere this Halloween Witch and hold her sacred. I honor her courage and listen to her warnings of the dark side of humanity.

Each year I shed tears of respect."

- Angel (Petals & Thorns poetry by Angel 6-26-1999)

(daily ex., morning stretching, afternoon 15min step aerobics, pm tm jog 4.1 mi)

Evil destroys even itself. - Aristotle

 (daily ex, morning yoga and stretching, pm tm jog 4.2 mi)

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." —Ernest Hemingway, The Wild Years

 (Tuesday daily ex, morning yoga, lots of walking while shopping, pm 2 mi streaksaver slow jog)

 I THINK IT WAS JUST WOMEN

It must have been a terrifying sight to behold,

a group of witches gathered by firelight,

chanting, conjuring spirits, creating spells…

No wonder some were afraid.

But I think it was just women.

Being women.

Coming together, as they very much must,

to support one another,

to share their battles and pull each other

through the flames

they faced daily.

Sharing remedies, medicines

and ways to heal.

And believing they were so much more than told,

than allowed.

It is little wonder that the power of this union would appear like magic, to the unknowing eye.

But I think it was just women.

Doing what we do,

every day.

Donna Ashworth

(daily ex, morning yoga and stretching, pm jog tm 3.2 mi)

 Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah on knowing what matters:

“In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.”

(daily ex, morning stretching, 1.1 mi walk, pm jog 3.1 mi tm)

“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.” ― Rollo May

“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.”
― Rollo May

(daily ex, morning tm 1.1 m, am walk 3.5 mi, afternoon stretching)

“Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.” ― Paulo Coelho

 (daily ex, morning yoga and stretching, pm tm jog 3.4 mi)

“The less I needed, the better I felt.” ― Charles Bukowski

 (daily ex, morning yoga, afternoon tm jog 2.5 mi, afternoon step aerobics 30 min)

“Creativity is Intelligence having fun.” ~ Albert Einstein

 (daily ex, morning yoga, pm tm jog 3.1 mi)

“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.” ― Emma Goldman

 (daily ex, morning yoga, pm slow jog 2 mi)

When I'm caught between a rock and a hard place, let me be water.

 (daily ex, morning walk 1.5 mi, pm slow streaksaver jog 1 mile, rest day)

I won’t curse you, but I won’t wish you well either. I wish you nothing, and may our planets never touch again. Please be happy, please be sad, be in peace, or afflicted by your reality, please feel anything and everything, whatever it may be, do it far away from me. — Shi Collantes

 (daily ex, morning yoga, 1mi walk, pm 2.1 mi tm jog)

And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T.S.Eliot

 (daily ex, morning yoga, afternoon jog 3.5 mi)

“People pay to see others believe in themselves.” —Kim Gordon, founding member of the band Sonic Youth, on the power of going for it

 (daily ex, morning yoga, 15 min step aerobics, pm tm jog 3.3 mi)

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.” ― Emily Dickinson

 (daily ex., morning yoga , pm tm jog 3.1 mi)

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,

 (daily ex, morning yoga, 0.5 mi walk, afternoon step aerobics, pm 2.1 mi jog tm)

“I shut my eyes in order to see.” ― Paul Gauguin

When you realize that true luxury is having time, slow mornings, and the freedom to choose what you want to do. The best things in life aren't expensive. They're the moments when you can take your time, enjoy a quiet morning, and do what makes you happy. It's about having the freedom to make your own choices and savor the simple pleasures. These are the real luxuries that make life truly rich and fulfilling. ~ Lj. Blossoms, Writer’s Blossoms

 (daily ex, morning stretching, walk 1 mi, pm jog streaksaver 1.1 mi)

“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,

 (trying to get back to a bit of exercise, morning walk 0.5 mi, stretching, pm jog 3.5 mi)

“Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.” ― C.S. Lewis

 (daily ex, morning tm 1.1 mi, morning walk 3.5 mi, afternoon stretching)

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 (daily ex, morning stretching, morning walk 3mi, pm streak saver slow jog 1 mi)

"I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist." -Fernando Pessoa

 (daily ex., morning walk 5.1 mi, a bit of stretching, pm streaksaver slow jog 1.1 mi)

“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” ― Dr. Mae Jemison

 (daily ex, morning yoga, morning walk 4.7 mi, afternoon 15 min step aerobics, pm tm jog 3.1 mi)

“We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

 (daily ex, morning yoga, walk 3.2 mi, pm jog 2.2 mi)

"It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.'" ~Aldous Huxley

 (daily ex., morning stroll 3 mi, afternoon yoga, pm jog 2 mi,  very tired today)

"And all at once, summer collapsed into fall." 🍁 Oscar Wilde

 It really is suddenly autumn!

(daily ex, morning yoga, pm tm jog 5 mi)

/ Louis Pasteur / . "Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word."

 Now that's depressing science.

(daily ex, morning 3 mi walk with Fleet Feet group, afternoon yoga and stretching, pm jog 2 mi streak saver)

“Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.” ― J. Nozipo Maraire

 (daily ex., morning yoga/stretching, pm tm jog 3.5 mi)

“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.” ― Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas

 (daily ex, morning yoga and stretching, morning walk 3.1 mi, pm jog 4.3 mi)

“when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.” ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

What a great quote.  I may have to reread "The Wind in the Willows," it may be lost on children.

(daily ex., morning yoga and stretching, 15 min step aerobics, pm jog 4.2 mi)

“I’m not interested in being fearless. I’ve met fearless people. I think they’re sociopaths. I’m interested in becoming brave, and there’s a big difference there. And to be fearless means you don’t even know what fear is, which means you’re missing a huge part of what it is to be a human being. To be brave means that you keep going anyway.” — Elizabeth Gilbert, writer

 (daily ex, morning walk 2.5 mi,  some yoga and stretching, pm streaksaver slow jog 1.1 mi) 

“I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.” — Natsuki Takaya

 (daily ex, morning yoga and stretching, pm tm jog 4.5 mi)

 “There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated. … To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.”

― Edward Abbey

(daily ex, morning walk with friends 6.2 mi, morning yoga)

Drew Dellinger

 it’s 3:23 in the morning

and I’m awake
because my great great grandchildren
won’t let me sleep
my great great grandchildren
ask me in dreams
what did you do while the planet was plundered?
what did you do when the earth was unraveling?

surely you did something
when the seasons started failing?

as the mammals, reptiles, birds were all dying?

did you fill the streets with protest
when democracy was stolen?

what did you do
once
you
knew?

(daily ex, morning group walk 3 mi, , morning yoga, pm jog/walk 2 mi)

Enjoy this day. It's the last time you''ll be this young.

 (home again after class reunion and family visits, yoga/stretching 1/2 hour, jog 3.2 miles)

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ― William James

 (daily ex, walking 1.5 mi, afternoon, stretching, tm jog 7.3 mi.  run streak day 4054, starting year 11)

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better! Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982), actress (Casablanca)

 (daily ex, not much, morning yoga, pm slow jog 1.1 mi streak saver)

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

 (daily ex., morning yoga, pm tm jog 4.1 mi)

“Dearly beloved. We are gathered here today. To get through this thing called life.” ― Prince

 (daily ex., morning walk 2 mi., afternoon yoga, pm long jog tm 8.1 mi)

“Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself” ― Plato

 “In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself.”

— Mantak Chia

(daily ex., morning walk 3 mi, afternoon stretching and yoga pm slow jog 2 mi)

.... we could just go forward with curiosity, wondering where this experiment will lead. Pema Chodrun

 (daily ex., morning walk 2.6 mi with 0.5 mi jog, afternoon yoga, pm jog walk 2 mi)

“What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.” – Toni Morrison

 I'm thinking of the Palestinian children in Gaza. They won't ever forget.

(daily ex., yoga, 1.1 mi streaksaver jog)

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

 Stephen Fry

(daily ex., morning yoga, pm tm jog 4.5 mi)

"It's just life, so keep dancing through." ~Fiyero

 (daily ex, morning walk 2.6 mi with 1.5 mi of slow jogging, afternoon yoga, pm slow jog 2 mi tm)

“I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us...” ― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2

 (daily ex, morning walk 3 mi, afternoon short yoga/stretching, pm slow jog/walk 3.2 mi)

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt

 (daily ex., morning tm jog 1.2 mi, morning walk 3 mi )

“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.” ― Simone de Beauvoir , The Second Sex

 (daily ex, morning walk 3 mi, afternoon tm jog 4.5 mi,)

When the debate is lost, insults become the loser’s tool. - Socrates

 (daily ex., morning walk 1.2 mi, afternoon yoga, pm jog/walk 5.1 mi during DNC)

I understand the assignment.

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton

 (daily ex. update, morning yoga/stretching,  pm slow jog 2 mi while watching DNC)

“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.” ― Epictetus

 (daily ex., morning walk 1.7 mi, afternoon tm jog 4 mi, pm slow walk 2.1 mi watching DNC)

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

(daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, pm jog/walk slow 5.2 mi while watching DNC)

“I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.” ― Georgia O'Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe

 (daily ex., morning yoga, tm jog 4.5 miles)

Change does not begin as a landslide, but the falling of the first domino.

 (daily ex., morning stretching/yoga, morning group walk 3 mi, pm jog walk 1.5 mi)

“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

 (daily ex, morning yoga/stretching, afternoon 15 min easy step aerobics, pm tm jog 2.5 mi with 0.5 mi cooldown walk)

“Maybe it’s not about happy ending. Maybe it’s about the story.” Albert Camus

 (daily ex, morning walk 1.5 mi,  late morning yoga, pm slow jog/walk 3.1 mi)

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” - Toni Morrison

 (daily ex, morning stretching and yoga, pm 1.5 mi slow streaksaver jog)

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.” ― Emily Dickinson

 (daily ex.,  morning yoga/stretching, pm slow jog/walk 4 mi)

“When one must, one can.” — Charlotte Whitton

 Just watched the men's Olympic marathon.  Tola from Ethiopia was incredible.

(daily ex, morning walk 3 mi, afternoon yoga, end of day slow jog 1.1 mi streaksaver)

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We boil at different degrees.....Clint Eastwood

 (daily ex., yoga/stretching, 15 min step aerobics, slow jog streaksaver 1.3 mi)

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

 (daily ex., morning walk 3.5 mi, afternoon yoga/stretching, pm tm jog 2.5 mi)

“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?” ― Michel Foucault

 (daily ex, morning yoga,stretching; pm slow jog/walk 5.2 miles)

“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.” ― George Carlin

 (daily ex, morning walk 3.3 mi, afternoon tm jog 3.4 mi, pm a little stretching)

Strange to think that an embryo can lose its rights if it develops into a female.

 (daily ex., morning walk 1.6 mi, afternoon yoga, pm tm jog 4.2 mi)

Indra Nooyi on leaving your crown in the garage:

 “I drove home. It was about 10 p.m., and the wintery roads were peaceful and dark. In those fifteen minutes behind the wheel, I let myself enjoy my accomplishment. I had worked so hard, learned so much, and earned my place. I entered our house through the kitchen door and dropped my keys and bag on the counter. I was bursting with excitement—so eager to tell everyone. Then my mother appeared. “I have the most incredible news!” I exclaimed. “The news can wait,” she said. “I need you to go out and get milk.” “Why didn’t you ask Raj to go get the milk?” I asked. “It looks like he came home a while ago.” “He looked tired, so I didn’t want to disturb him,” she said. I picked up my keys, went back to the car, drove to the Stop & Shop a mile away, and bought a gallon of whole milk. When I walked into the kitchen again, I was hopping mad. I slammed the plastic bottle on the counter. “I’ve just become president of PepsiCo, and you couldn’t just stop and listen to my news,” I said, loudly. “You just wanted me to go get the milk!” “Listen to me,” my mother replied. “You may be the president or whatever of PepsiCo, but when you come home, you are a wife and a mother and a daughter. Nobody can take your place. “So you leave that crown in the garage.”

[...]

Still, my mother’s comment that night has stuck with me—just vague enough to interpret in myriad ways. First, I think she said something deeply important about how we combine work and family. She was right, of course, that no matter who we are or what we do, nobody can take our place in our families. I was enjoying big success, but the stability of our home meant I would be equally valued and important whether or not I had been named president of PepsiCo, she indicated.

[...]

The “crown in the garage” comment also speaks to the broader relationship between power and humility. This is an incredible lesson for those who rise in their careers and end up in roles that give them real authority in the workplace and in society.”

— Source: My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future

(daily ex, yoga, stretching,  pm jog 2 mi, walk 1 mi)

“If a person does not keep pace with their companions, perhaps it is because they hear a different drummer. Let them step to the music they hear, however measured or far away.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

 (daily ex, morning tm jog 1.2 mi, morning Fleet Feet Walk 3 mi, afternoon yoga, stretching,  eyes burning all afternoon from this morning's smoky walk)

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards

 “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” – Steve Jobs

(daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, pm slow jog/walk to get a few steps in)

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.

 The quote "Conventionality is not morality" is from the preface of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, published in 1848.

There were very intelligent women even back in 1848. 

(daily ex, not much, walk 1.6 mi to check out wildfire but very smoky out,  afternoon yoga and stretching, 15 min of  easy step aerobics, 1 mi tm jog to keep streak alive)

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” ― Anton Chekhov

 (daily ex, morning walk 1.6 mi, morning stretching and yoga, pm slow jog 4.1 mi,, still rehabbing my knee)

"If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people." ~ Christopher Walken

 (daily ex.,morning early walk 3 mi, mid day yoga and stretching, pm slow jog streak saver 2 mi, still rehabbing my knee)

Bourdain, on what it means when governments put up walls to separate people: “I’ve been to a few places where they do have a wall. Few things are uglier in the entire world, of all the places I’ve seen. Few things have been more an indication of an utter failure of otherwise smart people to figure shit out.”

 (daily ex., morning yoga, stretching, knee rehab; pm tm jog 5.2 mi)

Aldous Huxley / born 130 years ago, July, 26th . "Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched."

 (daily ex, morning tm run 1.1mi, afternoon stretching, 2 walks 4.5 mi)

In 1987, during the Howard Stern Show, Frank Zappa said a phrase that we should all always keep in mind: "The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life".

 (daily ex., morning yoga, pm slow jog 1.1 streak saver mile)

"Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up." ~George Carlin

 

“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”

― A.J. Liebling

It is so difficult to believe anything you read any more on any news channel.

(daily ex., morning yoga and stretching, afternoon short easy step aerobics for 1/2 hr, pm slow jog 5 mi)

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

 (daily ex, morning stretching and yoga, pm slow indoor jog walk, hot day with terrible air quality here)

"The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does.” -Terence McKenna

 (daily ex,, morning walk 2 mi, afternoon yoga/stretching, pm tm jog 2 mi)

“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want.” —Hannah Arendt, German historian and philosopher (1906–1975)

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman

 I know I've shared this quote before, but it needs to be repeated often.  The dragons can be beaten!

I feel the need to go out and buy some black Converse Chuck Taylors! Power shoes to smash glass ceilings.

(daily ex., yoga stretching in the morning, pm slow jog/walk to get in some steps for the day)

“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.” ― Orson Scott Card, Alvin Journeyman

 (daily ex, morning walk with fleet feet group 3 mi, afternoon stretching/yoga 30 min, tm run 1 mi, pm slow jog/walk 3.1 mi)

“Recognize that your struggle and your suffering is the same as everyone else’s, I think that’s the beginning of a responsible life. Otherwise, we are in a continual savage battle with each other with no possible solution, political, social, or spiritual.” –Leonard Cohen

 (daily ex, morning walk 2 mi,  30min stretching, afternoon tm jog 5.5 mi, pm 15 min step aerobics, I think my injured knee may be on the mend finally)

Forever – is composed of Nows –......Emily Dickinson

 (daily ex., morning yoga, afternoon slow jog/walk 3.1 mi)

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.” ― Søren Kierkegaard

 (daily ex., morning yoga and stretching, afternoon slow tm jog 3.5 mi, pm walk group 3 mi)

"A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." - Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5.

 (daily ex. update, morning walk 4 mi, morning stretching, pm slow jog 2.1 mi)

“At the present time, I long only to sleep and to remain silent. I am sick of humanity.” Albert Camus

 (daily ex., morning walk 2 mi, morning stretching, pm slow jog 3.5 mi)

What is to give light must endure burning. Viktor Frankl (1905-1997), Austrian neurologist, psychologist, philosopher, and Dachau survivor

 (daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, pm tm jog 3.5 mi with 1.6 mi cooldown walk,  another very hot day)

"We treat them with condescendence for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having formed so far below us." And in this we are wrong, and we are wrong greatly. Because man is not the measure of the animal. In a world older and more complete than our own, they evolve finished and complete, with expansions of the meanings we have lost or never reached, living through voices we will never hear. "They are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates; they are other nations, caught with us in the net of life and time, companions of the splendor and fatigue of the Earth." (Henry Beston)

 (another hot day, morning walk 1.5 mi, morning tm jog 1.5 mi, midday stretching and yoga, pm slow walk 2 mi)

"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

 (daily ex, morning stretching,  pm slow jog/walk 5.1 mi, very hot day)

“Censorship is the child of fear the father of ignorance and the desperate weapon of fascists everywhere.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

 (daily ex, morning walk 1.2 mi, morning stretching afternoon 15 min step aerobics, pm slow jog/walk 4 mi)

Alan Watts / . "The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."

 (daily ex, 2 walks=4.5 mi, slow tm jog 2 mi)

“The temple bell stops But the sound keeps coming out of the flowers” ― Matsuo Bashō

 (daily ex., morning jog-walk 3 mi, morning stretching, pm tm jog 2.5 mi)

Time and distance are sanctuaries. Everything that goes wrong will have time to change........Brian Donnelly

 (daily ex,  stretching, walk 4.5 mi, pm slow jog 1.5 mi)

Dogs die. But dogs live, too. Right up until they die, they live. They live brave, beautiful lives. They protect their families. And love us. And make our lives a little brighter. And they don't waste time being afraid of tomorrow. Dan Gemeinhart, The Honest Truth

 Missing my beautiful dog Charleigh who was by my side for 12 years.

Dogs have no idea how wonderful they are. They just wander around making the world a better place.

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” — Calvin Coolidge

 (daily ex., morning yoga, dog walk only 0.6 miles as she didn't want to go, pm tm only 2.1 miles, not in the mood)

“It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.” ― Plutarch

 (dsily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 1.1 mi, afternoon walk 2.2 mi, pm slow streaksaver jog 1.2 mi tm)

Neighborhood fireworks happening, my poor trembling dog......

I think it's a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators, that dolphins have accents, that lions can be scared silly by a lone mongoose, that otters hold hands, and ants bury their dead. That there isn't their life and our life. Nor your life and my life. That it's just one teetering and endless thread and all of us, all of us, are entangled with it as deep as entanglement goes. Anon.

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 0.5 mi, afternoon easy step aerobics, pm slow tm 4.2 mi)

True confidence is living in uncertainty......Phil Stutz

 (daily ex, morning stretching, dog walk 1.2 mi, pm tm slow jog 6.3 mi, my long run for the week)

“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.,morning stretching, dog walk 1.6 mi, pm slow tm jog 3.3 mi with 0.7 mi cooldown walk)

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

 (daily ex, morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.2 mi, 20 min easy step aerobics, pm tm jog 3.1 mi slow)

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be”. - Leonard Cohen.

 (daily ex., dog walk 0.7 mi, tm jogs 1 mi plus 1.5 mi, morning walk/jog 3.5 mi, some stretching)

“We are all just a work in progress.” — Mary J. Blige

(daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 1.2 mi, pm tm jog 4.5 mi) 

The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 1.2 mi, pm jog tm 4.5 mi with cooldown walk 0.5 mi)

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” – J.B. Priestley

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 1.1 mi, pm jogs totalling 3.5 mi)

“Time is a thief of memory” ― Stephen King

 (very hot day, morning dog walk 1.6 mi, morning stretching, pm tm jog 4.5 mi)

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

 (daily ex, morning stretching still rehabbing my knee, dog walk 1.3 mi on a very hot morning, pm slow jog 4.1 mi. just to get it done)

The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary. Having that real though limited power to put established institutions into question, imaginative literature has also the responsibility of power. The storyteller is the truthteller.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 1.7 mi, pm tm jog 6.5 mi)

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” —Albert Einstein in a letter to Carl Seelig, March 11, 1952

 (daily ex., 2 walks 3.5 mi, 2 jogs 4.1 mi, stretching)

I find it amusing that we're all pretending to be normal when we could be insanely interesting instead -Unknown

 (daily ex, morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.5 mi,  15 min step aerobics, pm jog 5.1 mi)

 I am so tired of waiting.

Aren’t you,

for the world to become good

and beautiful and kind?

Let us take a knife

and cut the world in two—

and see what worms are eating

at the rind. ~Langston Hughes

(daily ex, morning stretching, dog walk 1.2 mi, pm slow streaksaver jog 2 mi)

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

 (daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.2 mi, pm tm jog 5.6 mi with 1.2 mi cooldown walk)

"And how should we behave during this Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don’t already have one." Kurt Vonnegut - The Idea Killers, 1984.

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 1.6 mi, pm tm jog 2.8 mi)

But if this whale be a king, he is a very sulky looking fellow to grace a diadem......Herman Melville, Moby Dick

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 1.5 mi, pm slow tm jog 4.5 mi with 0.8 mi cooldown walk)

"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well." - G. K. Chesterton

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 1.7 mi., pm tm 6.5 mi with 2 mi cooldown walk)

“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...” ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

 (daily ex., a little morning stretching, a.m. walk 2.2 mi, tm jogs 4.5 mi)

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone. Rod Serling's closing narration Twilight Zone "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" 1960

 (daily ex., stretching, step aerobics, tm jog 4.3 mi, cooldown walk 1.5 miles)

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

 (daily ex., morning stretching, 1.2 mi dog walk, pm tm 5.5 mi, cooldown walk 1.5 mi)

I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to. In my heart, I know that this is not true. Life is not leading up to anything, nor are we headed anywhere in particular. We are just wandering, circling around each other, we are all, in the end, just walking each other home. ~Khaled Hosseini

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 mi, pm slow jog 2 mi., rest day, very hot)

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” – Harper Lee

 (daily ex., morning stretchng, morning dog walk 2.2 mi, pm slow tm jog 6.2 mi)

“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.” ― E. B. White

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 2.5 mi, pm tm jog 3.1 mi)

"Compulsive liars shouldn't frighten you. They can harm no one, if no one listens to them. Compulsive believers, on the other hand: they should terrify you. Believers are the liars' enablers." - Nick Cohen

(daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 2.1 mi, pm tm jog 3.1 mi)

"Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.” ~George Carlin

 (daily ex., morning tm jog 1 mi, 30 min stretching,  do walk and brc group walk 3.7 mi)

“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” ― Confucius

 (daily ex., morning slow dog walk, pm tm jog 3.1 mi, 1.5 mi cooldown walk)

“I was laying in bed one night and I thought ‘I’ll just quit...to hell with it.’ And another little voice inside me said ‘Don’t quit...save that tiny little ember of spark.’ And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.” ~Charles Bukowski

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 mi., pm tm jog 5.5 mi. with 0.5 mi cooldown walk, then my tm broke down again)

When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about changing the present by doing small things, but pretty much no one in the present thinks that they can change the future by doing something small.

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 2.1 mi, pm tm jog 5.6 mi,  rest day tomorrow, must go refrigerator shopping)

“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.” ― Ulysses S. Grant

 (daily ex, morning stretching, dog walk 3.2 slow miles, pm very slow jog 3.1 miles)

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” ― Colette

(daily ex., morning dog walk 2.6 slow mi., morning stretching, pm tm jog 4.5 mi)

“The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.” — Kurt Vonnegut

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 2.1 mi, morning yoga and stretching, pm slow tm 6.5mi)

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.” ― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

  One day, when it's safe,

when there's no personal downside

to calling a thing what it is,

when it's too late to hold

anyone accountable,

everyone will have always been 

against this.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ~ Desmond Tutu

(daily ex., morning stretching, walk total of 3.5 mi, pm slow jog 3.5 mi on tm)

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” ― J. B. Priestley

 (daily ex., morning dog walk, gentle stretching and yoga, trying to fix injured knee., pm tm jog 3.8 mi)

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.---Carl Sagan

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”

― Edward O. Wilson

(daily ex., morning dog walk 2.9 mi, stretching, pm jog 1.1 mi streaksaver, rest day)

“You know I am really stupid. For years I have looked for the perfect pencil. I have found very good ones but never the perfect one. And all the time it was not the pencils but me.” —John Steinbeck

 (daily ex, morning stretching, yoga, dog walk 1.5 mi, pm tm jog 4.1 mi with 0.5 mi cooldown walk)

“People who bet on themselves tend to win.” —Billie Jean King, tennis great

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 2 mi, pm tm 4 mi jog, 0.5 mi cooldown walk)

Prayer is talking to the universe. Meditation is listening to it.

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 1.2 mi, pm tm jog 6.3 mi)

“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive” By Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

(daily ex., morning stretching, 1.5 mi dog walk, pm 1.1 mi , rest day)

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall

 (daily ex., dog walk and group Fleet Feet walk 3.8 mi., tm jogs 5 mi, a little morning stretching)

Rust never sleeps..Rust-oleum slogan

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 1.5 mi, pm tm jog 3.6 mi)

“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.” ― Truman Capote

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 1.3 mi, pm slow tm jog 5.2 mi, cooldown walk .4 mi)

Be kind to the trees. They are busy saving the world.

 (daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.7 mi, pm tm jog 2.5 mi followed by 2 mi cooldown walk)

“In general, indeed, the wise in all ages have always said the same thing, and the fools, who at all times form the immense majority, have in their way too acted alike, and done just the opposite; and so it will continue.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 1.5 mi, pm slow tm jog 3.1 mi, cooldown walk 1.1 mi., chilly damp day)

Arthur C Clarke / . "Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale."

(daily ex., morning dog walk 2.3 mi, followed by stretching and yoga, pm slow jog tm 3.5 mi)

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” ~Herman Melville,

 

“We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.”

― Grace Paley

(daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.5 mi, pm slow tm jog 4 mi, 0.5 mi cooldown walk)

“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.” – Confucius

 Not sure I agree. Confucius may have gotten this one wrong. Life is not a spectator sport.

(daily ex., morning stretching, 3 walks = 4.9 mi, pm jog 1.6 mi)

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets” is a quote by Arthur Miller, the author of The Crucible.

 (daily ex.,morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.1 mi, pm tm jog 3.1 mi, 1 mi cooldown walk)

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

 (daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.7 mi, pm slow jog 2.8 mi.  Trying to get back into the routine) 

“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.” ― Mary Oliver

 (daily exercise, I'm back home, morning yoga, dog walk 1.1 mi, pm jog 2.1 mi)

“And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.” Maya Angelou

 (daily ex., brief morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.5 mi, pm tm jog 4.7 mi)

Every day when I wake up, I don't let the old man in. Clint Eastwood

 

                                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc5AWImplfE

(daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.4 mi, pm tm jog 3.1 mi)

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.” — Pete Seeger

 (daily ex.,morning stretching, 0.6 mi dog walk, pm 2 tm runs of 3.7 and 1.5 mi)

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” ― Graham Greene

 (daily ex., 3 walks=4.5 mi, 1 mi tm run, a little stretching)

“Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.” ― A.S. Byatt, Possession

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1 mi, then stretching and yoga, pm slow jog-walk 4 miles, tired legs today)

/ Arthur C Clarke / . "If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods."

 (daily ex.,morning yoga and stretching, dog walk 1.7 mi, afternoon tm jog 6.2 miles)

“Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.” ― Terry Pratchett

 (daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, morning dog walk 3.2 mi., pm slow jog 4 mi)

“The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.” ― Pierre Bonnard

 (daily ex. morning dog walk 1.7 mi, morning yoga and stretching, afternoon walk 1.5 mi, eve slow streaksaver jog 1 mi, tired today)

/ Ayn Rand / . "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."

 (daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, dog walk 1.7 mi, pm tm jog 3.2 mi, 2 walks 2.3 mi)

Happy Birthday Sir Terry Pratchett

 'I didn’t have white hair in those days,’ said Granny.

‘Everything was a different colour in those days.’

‘That’s true.’

‘It didn’t rain so much in the summer time.’

‘The sunsets were redder.’

‘There were more old people. The world was full of them,’ said the wizard.

‘Yes, I know. And now it’s full of young people. Funny, really. I mean, you’d expect it to be the other way round.' — Equal Rites

(daily ex., morning dog walk 2 slow miles, yoga and stretching, pm jog 4.2 miles with 1.3 mi cooldown walk)

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” ― Abraham Lincoln

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 0.6 mi in rain which turned to snow. tm am jog 1.5 mi, tm pm jog 3.5 mi, cooldown walk 1.5 mi.. after all that my garmin tells me I had an easy day and need to exercise)

“What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.” — Ray Charles

 (daily ex., morning yoga, 2 walks = 3 mi, pm slow jog 3.5 mi)

To hold a pen is to be at war.----Voltaire

 (daily ex., morning stretching and yoga, 1.4 mi dog walk, pm slow mile.  Take it easy day)

“Innocent sleep. Sleep that soothes away all our worries. Sleep that puts each day to rest. Sleep that relieves the weary laborer and heals hurt minds. Sleep, the main course in life's feast, and the most nourishing.” ―William Shakespeare, Macbeth

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 2.8 mi, a.m. yoga, pm slow jog-walk 3.3 mi)

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage we have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. Charlie Munger.

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 mi., yoga and stretching, pm slow jog 5 mi)

"A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburn, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches, that is the right and privilege of any free American.” ~Edward Abbey

 (daily ex., morning yoga followed by 1.6 mi dog walk, pm very slow jog-walk 3.5 miles)

“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.” ― Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

 (daily ex., morning yoga, 1.2 mi dog walk, pm slow jog 3.1 mi)

"We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective." ~ Kurt Vonnegut.

 

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:

“Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.

I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is - we're here on Earth to fart around.

And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

(daily ex., dog walk plus group walk 3.5 mi, 2 jogs=3 mi)

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. ~Ernest Hemingway

 (daily ex.,morning dog walk 0.9 mi, pm slow tm jog 5.8 mi. It is snowing!)

“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” — Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby (1826-93)

 (daily ex., tm jog 3.1 mi, cooldown walk 1.4 mi, rainy cold day)

You can’t skip chapters, that’s not how life works. You have to read every line, meet every character. You won’t enjoy all of it. Hell, some chapters will make you cry for weeks. You will read things you don’t want to read, you will have moments when you don’t want the pages to end. But you have to keep going. Stories keep the world revolving. Live yours, don’t miss out.

 Courtney Peppernell

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 mi, afternoon walk 1.5 mi, pm jog t.m. 3.1 mi)

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” ― Robert Frost

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 0.6 mi, pm t.m. jog 5.5 mi)

 

Of the Empire | Mary Oliver

We will be known as a culture that feared death
and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
for the few and cared little for the penury of the
many. We will be known as a culture that taught
and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke
little if at all about the quality of life for
people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All
the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a
commodity. And they will say that this structure
was held together politically, which it was, and
they will say also that our politics was no more
than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of
the heart, and that the heart, in those days,
was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 slow miles, pm jog 4.5 slow miles)

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.” ― E.E. Cummings

 (daily ex.,morning dog walk 1.7 mi, pm tm jog 2 mi)

“Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise” . W.B. Yeats.

 (daily ex., morning walks 3.7 mi., pm slow jogs to get some steps in 3.5 mi.)

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” – Willa Cather

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.2 mi, pm tm jog 3.2 mi, cooldown walk 2.1 mi., I am 35 mi behind where I need to be at this time of year to run/walk 2024 mi. in 2024)

 Don't Hesitate

by Mary Oliver

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy,
don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty
of lives and whole towns destroyed or about
to be. We are not wise, and not very often
kind. And much can never be redeemed.
Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this
is its way of fighting back, that sometimes
something happens better than all the riches
or power in the world. It could be anything,
but very likely you notice it in the instant
when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the
case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid
of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

(daily ex., yesterday 1 mi walk, 1.1 mi jog, today 1.4 mile dog walk, 6.2 mi tm jog, 1.4 mi cooldown walk)

“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” – John Steinbeck

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

Jordan Maxwell / . “That's the most dangerous thing you can do: educate people. Because when people become educated, you cannot control them, you cannot frighten them. People who are educated know their own power, and don't surrender it to others.”

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 mi, pm jog 3.4 mi, cooldown walk 1.2 mi)

The older I get, the more I see how women are described as having gone mad, when what they’ve actually become is knowledgeable and powerful, and really fucking furious. ~Sophie Heawood

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.3 mi, pm streaksaver slow jog 1 mi)

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." ~ Aldous Huxley

(Winds of up to 91 mph so far.  Crazy day.  daily ex. = 2 walks=3.5 miles, 2 tm jogs=3 miles)

The reason why our families are not the same anymore, is because we buried the ones who used to keep the family together.

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.2 slow miles, pm jog 6.3 miles)

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.” ― Disraeli

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.1 mi, afternoon walk 2 mi., pm tm jog 3 mi)

Things take the time they take. Don't worry.----Mary Oliver

 (daily ex., morning dog slow walk 1.2 mi, pm tm jog 4 mi, 1.5 mi cooldown walk)

“Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

 (daily ex, morning dog walk 0.6 miles only as she didn't want to walk today, pm jog tm 4 mi, cooldown walk 1.5 mi)

“I once believed, as most do, that if arguments are to be won, the opponent must be pummeled into submission and silenced. You can imagine how that idea played at home. If, in accordance with such a definition, I won an argument, I began to lose the relationship.” — Gerry Spence

 (daily ex, 2 walks= 3mi, pm slow jog/walk 3.5 miles)

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” ― H.G. Wells

 (daily ex., 2 walks=2.2 mi, pm slow jog 4 miles)

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Mary Oliver

 (daily ex., morning walks 3.6 mi, pm streak saver jog 1 mi)

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 miles, pm jog 4.2 mi)

Some people want to see you fail. Disappoint them.

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1 mi, pm streak saver jog 1 mile)

Believing facts and trusting science doesn't mean you're a "liberal." It means you're "literate."

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 miles, 30 min yoga, pm slow jog 3mi)

“I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.” — Charles Bukowski

(daily ex., morning dog walk 0.5 mi, pm tm jog 6 mi)

“Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race--small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.” ― Chief Sitting Bull tags: 1877, inequality, powder-river-conference, sitting-bull

 Monday 3-25, daily ex, , shovel snow 30 min, 0.5 mi dog walk, pm slow streak saver jog 1 mi)

 

“LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT
(PERCY THREE)

He puts his cheek against mine
and makes small, expressive sounds.
And when I'm awake, or awake enough

he turns upside down, his four paws
in the air
and his eyes dark and fervent.

Tell me you love me, he says.

Tell me again.

Could there be a sweeter arrangement?
Over and over
he gets to ask it.
I get to tell.”

― Mary Oliver

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 miles, morning yoga, pm tm jog 2 miles)

 "I am so tired of waiting,

Aren't you,

For the world to become good

And beautiful and kind."

- Langston Hughes

(daily ex., 3 short walks=3.6 miles, pm tm jog 3.5 miles)

Hanlon’s razor: not attributing to malice what can likely be explained by incompetence.

Occam's razor: keep it simple, stupid.

Hanlon's razor: People make mistakes. This does not make them evil.

Hitchen's razor: If it can't be backed up, dismiss it.

Grice's razor: Understand the true meaning, not the face value.

(daily ex., morning slow dog walk 2.1 mi, pm slow jog 4.1 mi)

“Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the butt. It's like an athletic event. You've got to train for it. You've got to eat right. You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out. Exercise is king and nutrition is queen: together, you have a kingdom.” — Jack LaLanne 1914 – 2011 CE

 Jack La Lanne had an fitness tv show from 1951 to 1985, the first and longest running nationally syndicated exercise program..  I remember watching him.

One of La Lanne's sayings was “If man made it, don’t eat it”.

(daily ex, morning dog walk 1.8 mi, pm tm slow jog 4.7 mi., I am 23 miles behind where I should be for the year)

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” ― C.S. Lewis

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.1 mi, pm slow jog 5.1 mi just to get some steps in)

/ Robert Frost / . "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.2 mi, pm tm jog 5 mi)

Woke

 You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

                                        Inigo Montoya from “The Princess Bride”

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1 mi, pm tm jog 6 mi)

That's the dance.

 "If you really want to be great at something, you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it. A lot of people say they want to be great, but they're not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve greatness. They have other concerns, and they spread themselves out. ... Greatness isn't easy to achieve. It requires a lot of time, a lot of sacrifices. It requires a lot of tough choices. It requires your loved ones to sacrifice, too. So you have to have an understanding circle of family and friends. People don't always understand just how much effort from how many people goes into one person chasing a dream to be great. There's a fine balance between obsessing about your craft and being there for your family. It's akin to walking a tightrope. Your legs are shaky, and you're trying to find your center. Whenever you lean too far in one direction, you correct your course and end up over leaning in the other direction. So you correct by leaning the other way again. That's the dance. You can't achieve greatness by walking a straight line."

— Kobe Bryant

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.1 mi, pm tm jog 5.1 mi)

Cat logic is so simple yet so effective. dont like something? smack it as far away from you as possible. literally flawless reasoning.

 (daily ex., 05 mi dog walk, pm streaksaver jog 1 miles)

“But I've also learned there's no point in actively trying to quote unquote defeat your enemies. Trash takes itself out every single time.”---Taylor Swift

 (daily ex, 30 min of snow shoveling in a.m., pm jog 1.5 miles)

What's worse than a monster making fun of someone stuttering? The audience that laughed.

(blizzard day with hours without power, daily ex. slow jog-walk 2 miles)

Michel de Montaigne / . "On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom."

 (daily ex.,morning dog walk 1.3 mi.,pm slow and easy jog-walk 2 miles treadmill)

“Fitness is feeling like you are dying at a much faster pace than you used to feel like you were dying at.” —Sabrina B. Little

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1 mi, pm jog 7.7 mi on tm during long movie)

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” ― George Carlin, Brain Droppings

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.1 mi, pm streaksaver jog 1.1mi)

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” –Ursula Leguin”

 The creative adult is the child who survived.

The creative adult is the child who survived after the world tried killing them, making them “grown up.” The creative adult is the child who survived the blandness of schooling, the unhelpful words of bad teachers, and the nay-saying ways of the world.

The creative adult is in essence simply that, a child.

(daily ex., morning dog walk 0.7 miles, pm streaksaver jog 1.3 mi)

“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” – Paulo Coelho

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.1 miles, pm slow jog-walk to get in a few steps.  Started collecting tax info for CPA.  Lots of questions)

International Women's Day

 

“If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”

― Shirley Chisholm

Celebrate Women's history month by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get mad about it, tell them they sound hysterical and need to smile more.

(daily ex., morning dog walk 0.9 miles, afternoon tm jog 5.6 mi, pm tm walk 3.5 miles, procrastinating to avoid working on my taxes)

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.” ― Anais Nin

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 0.7 miles very slow, afternoon tm jog 5.8 miles, pm cooldown walk 1.5 miles)

Blaise Pascal / . "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.8 mi, pm slow walk-jog 4.5 miles, tired today)

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.” ― Kait Rokowski

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 slow miles, pm tm jog 5 miles. plus 1 mi cooldown walk)

Decide to be arc-benders

 Yes, the arc of the moral universe is long and it bends toward justice, but make no mistake it will bend far less severely and far more slowly if we simply wait for it to do so.

We are the arc-benders.

John Pavlovitz

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

Henry D Thoreau / . "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

 (daily ex., morning very slow dog walk 1.5 miles, pm jog tm 6.5 miles)

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

 (daily ex., 2 walks=3.5 mi, pm streak saver slow jog, rest day, read a great book)

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” ~Ursula K. Le Guin

 (daily ex. update, morning very slow dog walk 2.1 miles, pm jog tm 5.5 miles)

As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations. Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes (by Bill Watterson)

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 mi, slow jog/walk pm 4.7 mi, rest day)

Anyone want to meet up and just scream? We can get food after.---unknown

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.3 miles, pm jog 5.7 miles)

“For me, family is the definition of gravity.” ― Kate Stewart,

 (daily ex. update, snowy morning dog walk 0.4 miles, pm tm jog 6.2 miles)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn / . ""In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers , we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundation of justice from beneath new generations. "

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 mi, pm slow jog 5 mi)

"Never pick a fight with a woman over 40. They're full of rage and sick of everyone's [bullshit]." -- Cate Blanchett

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 mi, pm jog 5.7 miles tm)

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.” ― Erma Bombeck

 “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”

― Erma Bombeck

(daily ex., 2 walks=4 miles, pm streaksaver jog 1 mi)

“This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.” ― Nina Simone,

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.2 miles, pm slow jog-walk 2.1 miles, rest day, tired)

Unfortunately I read the headlines today. I am disgusted.

 I gotta stay in shape

Just in case things go further south and I have to run messages for the resistance.

Nobody will suspect a little old lady.

                      Alison Bechdel

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 miles, pm tm jog 6.5 miles)

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

 “I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers. In the long hours of church--was it then I learned? I could not remember not being able to read hymns. Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces. I could not remember when the lines above Atticus's moving finger separated into words. But I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills to Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow--anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

― Harper Lee

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.7 slow miles, pm slow jog/walk 4.8 miles)

"We don't realize how strong we actually are," said Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.

 "If they decide to kill me, we are incredibly strong," he said

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.2 very slow miles, pm tm jog 6.3 miles)

“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.” ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

 (daily ex., 2 dog walks=2 miles, pm tm jog 5.3 miles)

/ Anais Nin / . "Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity."

 (Sun, 2-18, morning dog walk 1.5 mi, pm slow jog-walk 5 mi)

Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once--Marcus Aurelius

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 0.8 mi followed by 15 min of shoveling snow, 3 mi walk at noon with  a friend, pm 2 mi tm jog with 1 mi cooldown walk)

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will

 “Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will; indeed, it has led many people into dangers which mere physical courage would shudder away from, for hunger and love and curiosity are the great impelling forces of life.”

— Brian Grazer

(daily ex., morning slow dog walk 1.2 miles, getting slower every day.  pm tm jog 3.2 mi with 1.3 mile cooldown walk)

George Orwell / . "However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing."

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 0.8 mi, pm tm 4.2 mi)

“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., morning slow dog walk 1.5 mi, pm slow jog 4.7 mi)

Kurt Vonnegut / . "You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society."

 (daily ex. morning dog walk 1.3 miles, pm slow streaksaver 1.1 miles)

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” ― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 slow miles, pm slow jog to get steps in 3.2 miles)

Intelligent people know how to get what they want. Wise people know what's worth wanting.

 (Sun. ex., morning dog walk 1.4 mi, pm slow streak saver 1.1 mi)

“Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 0.5 mi., some snow, pm slow jog 2.5 miles)

“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself” ― Henry Miller

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.4 miles, pm jog 1.6 miles tm, plus 4 mi walk tm)

“She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.” ― Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden

 Such an awesome quote!

(daily ex., morning dog walk 0.8 mi., pm slow streaksaver jog walk 1.2 miles. tired today so didn't do much, treated it as a rest day, then my smart watch tells me I had a rough day and need to rest more so guess I made the right call)

Marcus Aurelius / . "Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?"

 (daily ex., 2 dog walks =1.7 miles, pm jog-walk 5.3 miles)

I dwell in possibility.---Emily Dickinson

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.7 mi, pm jog 2.5 mi)

“This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.” ― Maya Angelou

 (daily ex., morning very icy walk w dog 0.75 miles, pm streaksaver slow jog 1.1 mi)

The North wind made the Vikings......Scandinavian proverb

 (daily ex., 60 min. shoveling snow, 0.6 mi dog walk, pm tm jog 1.2 miles and 3.3 miles tm walk)

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold. -Unknown

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 0.5 miles in the cold rain, major snowstorm all day, pm walk 3 miles and 1.1 mile slow streaksaver jog, over a foot of snow which I will have to deal with tomorrow. It is pretty out)

“I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.” ― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

 I believe in critical thinking and honest skepticism, but one must also have an open mind.

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.2 miles, pm treadmill run 1.1 mi., pm tm walk 4.7 miles.  so glad to have my treadmill repaired)

“You don’t want to hear the story of my life, and anyway I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen to the enormous waterfalls of the sun. And anyway it’s the same old story - - - a few people just trying, one way or another, to survive." ........Mary Oliver

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 mi, pm slow jog/walk 5.5 miles)

I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam. Popeye the Sailor

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.3 slow miles, pm slow jog 5.2 miles)

“I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.” ― Gilda Radner

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 0.7 mi, pm jog 2.3 mi)

“Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess.” ― George Saunders, Tenth of December

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.5 miles, pm slow jog 3.5 mi, walk 1.1 miles)

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.” ― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland

 (daily ex., morning slow dog walk 1.4 miles, pm streak saver jog 1.1 mi, walk 4 miles)

If every day is a gift, then today was socks.

 Luckily, I love socks.

(daily ex., morning walks 3.5 miles, pm slow jog 3.1 mi)

“What do you hang on the walls of your mind?” — Eve Arnold

 (daily ex., 30 min of shoveling snow, 0.5 mi dog walk, pm slow jog-walk 2.5 miles)

“Patience is also a form of action.” — Auguste Rodin, French sculptor

 (daily ex., very slow morning dog walk 1.5 miles, pm jog-walk 5 miles) 

“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” – Isaac Asimov

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.2 mi, pm streaksaver jog 1.3 miles, basically a rest day)

“I don’t like the word retirement,” she said. “I like to say a departure from the tour, or just stepping back, or switching gears, or, like, evolving.” Carissa Moore

 (daily ex. update, 2 dog walks = 1.9 miles, pm slow jog 3.1 mi, with 1.2 mi cooldown walk)

"What if your markers of success were how well you slept at night. How many books you read. How easily you laughed. How much time you spent storytelling, feeling warm in the arms and homes of people you adore." - Unknown

 “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”

Alan Bennett

(daily ex., 2 dog walks 2.4 miles, pm jog 3.2 mi with 1 mi cooldown walk)

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

 and that is why they are banning books.

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.3 miles, pm slow jog-walk 5.3 miles)

“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.” ― Andy Warhol

 (daily ex., morning walks 3.5 miles, pm slow jog 3 miles) 

“You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” — Bonnie Prudden

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.2 miles, pm slow jog-walk 5 miles)

/ William Shakespeare / . "What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind."

 (daily ex., morning slow dog walk 1.5 miles, pm streaksaver 2.6 miles run/jogged to get in some more steps)

Everybody knows everybody is dying; that's why people are as good as they are. Henry Wiggen, Bang the Drum Slowly

 

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.4 miles, pm slow jog/walk 4.1 miles. Gotta get those steps in)

Isaac Asimov / . "The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress."

 (daily ex., 30 min. scooping snow, 2 one mile dog walks, pm jog 4 miles with 0.5 cooldown walk)

“The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

 

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

Always inspiring, every single year.

Word of the day:  Xenodochial, being friendly to strangers. (antonym, xenophobia, fear or dislike of anything foreign or strange)

(daily ex. update, snowing and even colder, no dog walk. evening jog 2.6 mi, walk 5 mi to get the steps in)