“Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.” ― Jane Austen, Emma

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“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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― George Washington

     Above are two quotes I read today that remind me of the Trump family.

     

Some days are harder than others.

 

(ex update, pm tm jog 4.2 miles, ytd 1496.5 miles.  Dog walk, 3 miles, ytd 702.3 walk miles.  Run/walk total = 2198.8 miles)

“Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. ” ― Suzanne McMinn

 

(daily ex. update, jog 2.1 miles tm, streak saver run. ytd 1492.3 miles.  Dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 699.3 miles.  Run/walk total ytd = 2191.6 miles. Only 2 weeks to go for this year.)

Herzensangelegenheit,, a matter of the heart. This sums it up.

                                               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N2eSsIWtNI

Lumiere brothers 1897

                                             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQMMDGd4ciA

(daily ex. update, pm tm 3.2 miles, ytd 1490.2 miles.  Walk 2 miles, ytd walk 696.8 miles.  Scooped snow but no snowball fights in sight.  I did talk to several neighbors also out scooping.  In this time of quarantine, it is one of the few opportunities to see them.)

I want to break free...a nice ad

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFMsIrS4YqU

(daily ex update, tm 3.5 miles pm, ytd 1487 miles.  Morning dog walk 2.5 miles, icy out, ytd walk 694.8 miles. And it is snowing again.)

 By Kurt Vonnegut:

“When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”

And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

(daily ex. update, pm tm 3.1 miles, ytd run 1483.5 miles. Morning dog walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 692.3 miles. Also a little snow scooping.)