“Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy.” —H.L. Mencken

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.5 miles, ytd walk 594 miles.  pm slow streak saver run 1.1 miles, ytd run 1087.5 miles.  covid booster shot today)

A person's a person no matter how small......Dr. Seuss

 A few GOP governors need to re-read their Dr. Seuss! Or have they banned that too?

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 4.8 miles, ytd walk 590.5 miles, pm tm run 1.8 miles, ytd run 1086.4 miles)

“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience. Deepak Chopra.

 (daily ex. update, morning dog walk 4.5 miles, pm tm run 1.5 miles)

 As life goes on it becomes

tiring to keep up the character

you invented for yourself ...

And so you relapse into individuality

and become more like yourself

everyday.

- Agatha Christie, An Autobiography

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 4.7 miles, ytd walk 581.2 miles, p.m. tm run 6.7 miles, ytd run 1083.1 miles)

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wow! I've never looked at it this way.

(daily ex. update, morning walk 3.6 miles, ytd walk 576.5 miles, pm tm streaksaver run 1.3 miles, ytd run 1076.4 miles) 

 It may not be a pleasure exactly,

but it’s your solemn duty

to live one more day

to spite the enemy.

—Nâzim Hikmet

(daily ex. update, morning dog walk 3.7 miles, ytd walk 572.9 miles. pm tm 4.4 miles run, ytd run 1075.1 miles)

“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.” ― Rumi

 (daily ex update, morning misty dog walk 3.5 miles, ytd walk 569.2 miles,  pm tm run 3.1 miles, ytd run 1070.7)