Archive For January 31, 2022
Vital lives are about action. You can’t feel warmth unless you create it, can’t feel delight until you play, can’t know serendipity unless you risk. – Joan Erickson Back in the day, the old man was hired to provide security on a, how should I put this, oh, yeah, an organic farm in the foothills of…
For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight. – George Sheehan My second favorite running magazine in the world is Mystical Miles in Holland. New…
I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.”― John D. MacDonald, The Deep Blue Good-By Overcast. Cloudy. Gray. I filled the gas tank in case there’s a war….
Even after the capitulation it was generally accepted as a fact by the population that the quislings were mainly recruited among psychopaths and intellectually deficient persons. – From the Cambridge English Corpus quis·ling/ˈkwizliNG/ noun 1.a traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country. Synonyms: apostate, backstabber, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, Judas, recreant, serpent, snake, traitor, turncoat. Vidkun Quisling Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (/ˈkwɪzlɪŋ/, Norwegian: [ˈvɪ̂dkʉn ˈkvɪ̂slɪŋ]; 18…
He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. – Gabriel García Márquez An informed guide to the pandemic, with the latest developments and expert advice about prevention and treatment. Or not….
To understand a phenomenon, we need to make sure we understand the shape of its curve. By assuming we know how a curve continues beyond what we see, we will draw the wrong conclusions and come up with the wrong solutions. – Hans Rosling Over 22% of U.S. Supreme Court Justices have been credibly accused of…
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. – Covert Bailey Somewhere there is a semblance of an article about a fitness conference in Reno, Nevada and I somehow got…
“It’s not drinking alone if the dog is home.“ “There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer. That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens, you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens, you drink…
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the White moderate who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion…
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too…. – Rudyard Kipling Why Republican Voters Think Americans Have to Get Over Jan. 6 By Patrick Healy and Adrian J. Rivera for The New…