Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. ~Joseph Campbell

 (daily ex. update, walk 4.2 miles over 3 walks, pm jog 2.1 miles)

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.” ― Emily Dickinson

 (daily ex., morning slow dog walk 1.2 miles, pm slow jog 4.3 miles)

 

Luke and the Frog: An American Fairytale OR What It Feels Like to Be a Parent in America

Jasminne Mendez

On the Monday after Mother’s Day,  after another mass shooting,  I pick up my daughter from school  and on the ride home while she munches  on veggie chips and looks out the window,  she tells me a modern day fairytale: “Luke killed a frog today  at the playground during recess the frog was small not a baby frog a teenage frog because he had a medium-sized body  not a small body a green & blue medium-sized spotted body  Luke stepped on it & stepped on it until there was blood & the teacher had to call the frog ambulance & Luke was put on the naughty list & I was the only one who yelled stop!  Stop! Don’t kill it!  but Luke wouldn’t listen & the others joined in on the stomping & I yelled stop!  but no one would listen & they stomped & stomped & killed the frog  & and it bled red out of its eyes out of its head & it made me sad & can we buy the frog flowers because when someone dies they should get flowers & Mami, what if that frog was supposed to be a prince  but now he’s dead & now we’ll never know” (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 miles, pm slow jog 3.5 miles)

Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.

 (daily ex., walk 3.2 miles over 3 walks, pm jog 3 miles)

I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains. ―Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

 (daily ex update, 2 dog walks = 1.5 miles, pm jog 4 miles)

“How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

 (daily ex., morning walk 1.6 miles, only partially with my dog, pm jog 2.7 miles)

Beware. I walk my talk.

 (ex. update, walk 2 miles, run/jog 3.2 miles)