"A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburn, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches, that is the right and privilege of any free American.” ~Edward Abbey

 (daily ex., morning yoga followed by 1.6 mi dog walk, pm very slow jog-walk 3.5 miles)

“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.” ― Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

 (daily ex., morning yoga, 1.2 mi dog walk, pm slow jog 3.1 mi)

"We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective." ~ Kurt Vonnegut.

 

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:

“Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.

I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is - we're here on Earth to fart around.

And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

(daily ex., dog walk plus group walk 3.5 mi, 2 jogs=3 mi)

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. ~Ernest Hemingway

 (daily ex.,morning dog walk 0.9 mi, pm slow tm jog 5.8 mi. It is snowing!)

“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” — Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby (1826-93)

 (daily ex., tm jog 3.1 mi, cooldown walk 1.4 mi, rainy cold day)

You can’t skip chapters, that’s not how life works. You have to read every line, meet every character. You won’t enjoy all of it. Hell, some chapters will make you cry for weeks. You will read things you don’t want to read, you will have moments when you don’t want the pages to end. But you have to keep going. Stories keep the world revolving. Live yours, don’t miss out.

 Courtney Peppernell

(daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 mi, afternoon walk 1.5 mi, pm jog t.m. 3.1 mi)

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” ― Robert Frost

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 0.6 mi, pm t.m. jog 5.5 mi)