Archive For June 30, 2022
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. – George Orwell, 1984 Many many people are asking, is Florida the world’s first…
Zen prayer includes intimacy with the ground of Being, making yourself whole through honest self-reflection, clarifying your deepest spiritual intentions, wishing for the welfare of the world, and affirming the essential goodness of people and life. Prayer can release you from your habitual self-centered tendencies and can open the gates to your miraculous and wondrous…
In a new study published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, regular walkers turned out to be healthier than their running counterparts. Risk for hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, and heart disease all dropped more significantly among walkers, compared with runners. My goal when I first began running was to go as fast as I could at all distances up…
Not sure all these White Christian Jihadists – bent on regime change at home – are going to be as happy with authoritarianism as they think they are. – Barker Ajax The Ginni Thomas Supreme Court this morning took away a woman’s right to physical autonomy. As if the rape itself was somehow insufficient. When…
History is written by the winner, so it largely depends on who’s writing the history. – Bill Barr When I first learned about the Old West, it was the 1950s. When America was great and beatniks roamed the earth. My grandparents were born in the 1800s and so it was possible to hear true stories…
Forty-five years ago, the editor of “The Thinking Runner’s Magazine” was likely looking for any hints at getting faster and maybe some free content. The deep dive into the last box of archives offered up a two-page handwritten letter. Two lined sides of a single sheet from a three-ring binder. In ink with corrections. Remember…
Albert Einstein once said that ‘insanity’ was ‘Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting to achieve different results’. He was a clever chap, that Einstein fella. And, according to him, I must have been insane. Because I kept on working hard, and I kept on expecting to be rewarded, even though my hard…
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. – Umberto Eco So, anyway, I came across some notes from about 1995. Deep in the Siuslaw forest, feet from the river. Imagine you…
I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff which I call the bullshit. I told him that it was crazy stuff and they were wasting their time, and was doing grave, grave disservice to the country. – Trump’s Attoady General Bill…
Furtive behavior is always noticed and, when noticed, inevitably raises an alarm. On the other hand, a man acting boldly and directly is viewed as honest and harmless, is not remarked upon, and is later forgotten altogether. – Dean Koontz He had tried to get along. When all his neighbors were terrified a caravan of MS-13…