“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)