“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” ― Anton Chekhov

 (daily ex, morning walk 1.6 mi, morning stretching and yoga, pm slow jog 4.1 mi,, still rehabbing my knee)

"If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people." ~ Christopher Walken

 (daily ex.,morning early walk 3 mi, mid day yoga and stretching, pm slow jog streak saver 2 mi, still rehabbing my knee)

Bourdain, on what it means when governments put up walls to separate people: “I’ve been to a few places where they do have a wall. Few things are uglier in the entire world, of all the places I’ve seen. Few things have been more an indication of an utter failure of otherwise smart people to figure shit out.”

 (daily ex., morning yoga, stretching, knee rehab; pm tm jog 5.2 mi)

Aldous Huxley / born 130 years ago, July, 26th . "Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched."

 (daily ex, morning tm run 1.1mi, afternoon stretching, 2 walks 4.5 mi)

In 1987, during the Howard Stern Show, Frank Zappa said a phrase that we should all always keep in mind: "The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life".

 (daily ex., morning yoga, pm slow jog 1.1 streak saver mile)

"Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up." ~George Carlin

 

“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”

― A.J. Liebling

It is so difficult to believe anything you read any more on any news channel.

(daily ex., morning yoga and stretching, afternoon short easy step aerobics for 1/2 hr, pm slow jog 5 mi)

I am not strong on perfection.---Jasper Johns

 (daily ex, morning stretching and yoga, pm slow indoor jog walk, hot day with terrible air quality here)