…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 fucking furious. Sophie Heawood

 (daily ex. update, walk 3.3 miles, ytd walk 263.9 miles.  pm jog 2.3 miles, ytd run 573.1 miles)

“The more laws, the less justice.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 260.6 miles.  pm jog 2 miles streak saver, ytd run 570.8 miles)

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2 miles.  ytd walk 258.1 miles.  pm tm run 6.5 miles, ytd run 568.8 miles)

“What fresh hell is this?” ― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

 “Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”

― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.”

― Methodist Pastor David Barnhart

(daily ex. update, chilly damp day, no walk.  pm slow treadmill run 2 miles, ytd run 562.3 miles)

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” ― Albert Einstein

     When it doesn't seem right, go left.

(daily ex. update, walk 3.5 miles from 2 walks, ytd walk 256.1 miles.  afternoon treadmill run 5.5 miles, ytd run 560.3 miles)

“People change and forget to tell each other.” ― Lillian Hellman

 (daily ex. update, morning chilly dog walk 1 mile, ytd walk 252.6 miles,  pm tm run 3.2 miles, ytd run 554.8 miles)

This time, the disaster was somewhere else. The disaster was always somewhere else, until it wasn’t. Liza Katz Duncan

 (daily ex. update, morning run with dog 4 miles and walk 0.5 miles.  pm tm run 7 miles.  ytd run 551.6 miles, ytd walk 251.6 miles)