“The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.” – Queen Elizabeth II

 (daily ex. update, morning walk dog walk on a cooler day 5.2 miles, ytd walk 565.7 miles, pm tm run 4.5 miles, ytd run 1067.6 miles)

“The more you know, the less you need.”

 —Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, in “Let My People Go Surfing.” Chouinard, a crotchety old outdoorsman known for walking the talk and putting his money where his mouth is, gave away his company last week in order to preserve Patagonia’s values in perpetuity and fight the environmental crisis.

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.8 miles, ytd walk 560.5 miles.  pm tm jog 3.3 miles, ytd run 1063.1 miles)

“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.” – Cicero

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.3 miles, ytd walk 556.7 miles, pm tm 3.2 miles run, ytd run 1059.8 miles)

"It's the road signs, 'Beware of lions.' " Kip Lagat, Kenyan distance runner, during the Sydney Olympics, explaining why his country produces so many great runners.

 (daily ex. update, morning hike with dog 3.2 miles, ytd walk 553.4 miles.  pm tm run 3.6 miles, ytd run 1056.6 miles)

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself." Virginia Woolf

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 miles, plus 5.6 mile hike with friends at Staunton State Park, pm tm streaksaver run 2 miles.  ytd walk 550.2 miles, ytd run 1053 miles)

"The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.” Arnold Bennett

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 1.5 miles, ytd walk 543.1 miles, pm tm run 1.5 miles, ytd run 1051 miles)

“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be... This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages... Far too many people misunderstand what 'putting away childish things' means, and think that forgetting what it is like to think and feel and touch and smell and taste and see and hear like a three-year-old or a thirteen-year-old or a twenty-three-year-old means being grownup. When I'm with these people I, like the kids, feel that if this is what it means to be a grown-up, then I don't ever want to be one. Instead of which, if I can retain a child's awareness and joy, and 'be' fifty-one, then I will really learn what it means to be grownup.” Madeleine L'Engle

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 2.5 miles, ytd walk 541.6 miles,  afternoon tm run 5.6 miles, ytd run 1049.5 miles)