Archive For September 30, 2023
If you can fill the unforgiving minute, with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, and – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son! – Rudyard Kipling The Masters Runner By Steve Trew The athlete was old now, very old. He had run and competed…
Yet another gift catalog shows up in the mail. And the catalog is filled with a bunch of stuff you don’t need. Signs, t-shirts, pillows, magnets, placards. But many of them inscribed with wisdom you DO need. Life’s journey is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well preserved body but rather to…
The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith, and to become one’s own person, utterly and completely. – George Sheehan Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa, erstwhile 800m specialist, obliterated the women’s marathon world record…
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss A Nature Valley morning with coconut butter. When we get outside, something amazing happens. You can feel it. It can make us feel more energized, helps manage stress, and strengthen our families. We…
“If you are a colossal fan of epic poetry serving up a metaphorical tour of the Collapse of Western Civilization and have ever seen an actual boner with your own eyes, maybe even touched one…” here Barker Ajax stopped. A Promethean quest to grow the male member leaves some men desperate and disfigured. THEY WANTED…
My feelings for Kenny as a friend were only exceeded by my amazement that one person could be so gifted in two different venues. There was that magic he made with words and then the physical/mental package that allowed him to run faster and longer than all but two or three other people on planet…
We are now in a post-fact world. I can’t even talk to a lot of friends and family members and people I care so much about and I have for my whole life. It was never this bad. How did it get this bad? – Joe Scarborough It’s alway been this bad. Almost came to…
morning grasswater hardens and garbage cans fall silent. The bees bury their own. October 16, 1974 Flagstaff, Arizona USA
All I want to do is drink beer and train like an animal. – Rod Dixon Think it was 1980, in Purchase, New York, at the headquarters of a carbonated beverage company, when Rod Dixon and I first crossed paths. He was an invited athlete and I was happy just to get in the door….
Being himself, however, really meant not just a Jew or just an American but both and neither…. An exile, he sits down by the waters of Manhattan to weep; a wry smile comes over his face, for he realizes that he is home. And then he really weeps. – L.S. Dembo Charles Reznikoff was born in…