“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” ― Confucius

 (daily ex., morning slow dog walk, pm tm jog 3.1 mi, 1.5 mi cooldown walk)

“I was laying in bed one night and I thought ‘I’ll just quit...to hell with it.’ And another little voice inside me said ‘Don’t quit...save that tiny little ember of spark.’ And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.” ~Charles Bukowski

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 1.6 mi., pm tm jog 5.5 mi. with 0.5 mi cooldown walk, then my tm broke down again)

When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about changing the present by doing small things, but pretty much no one in the present thinks that they can change the future by doing something small.

 (daily ex., morning stretching, dog walk 2.1 mi, pm tm jog 5.6 mi,  rest day tomorrow, must go refrigerator shopping)

“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.” ― Ulysses S. Grant

 (daily ex, morning stretching, dog walk 3.2 slow miles, pm very slow jog 3.1 miles)

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” ― Colette

(daily ex., morning dog walk 2.6 slow mi., morning stretching, pm tm jog 4.5 mi)

“The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.” — Kurt Vonnegut

 (daily ex., morning dog walk 2.1 mi, morning yoga and stretching, pm slow tm 6.5mi)

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.” ― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

  One day, when it's safe,

when there's no personal downside

to calling a thing what it is,

when it's too late to hold

anyone accountable,

everyone will have always been 

against this.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ~ Desmond Tutu

(daily ex., morning stretching, walk total of 3.5 mi, pm slow jog 3.5 mi on tm)