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)