“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)