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Winds-Day

No run for me today, I’m alternating run and rest days right now to try not and overdo it. Which naturally leads to glancing at the weather just now and realizing it is about 10 degrees cooler today than it was yesterday, in other words a much better day for me to run. So it goes P

I like this, from the Hitchhiker’s Guide text game (yes, we played when it was released):

You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.

And as long as I’m quoting Douglas Adams, might as well toss this one on the pile:

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Don’t read much into my selection of quotes, I may be on a down beat but that’s just par for the course and I’ll be bouncing along again soon. I’m off to start my day and hopefully not eff it after all.

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Monday

Saw this quote in an email:

The future comes one day at a time.

- Dean Acheson

It’s common sense but so easy to forget. Today is another new day. Let’s see what I can do with it.

first things first

“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”

“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”

“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.

Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said.”

— A.A. Milne

maybe a couple stray cats

Saw this today:

If you know the art of breathing you have the strength, wisdom, and courage of ten tigers.

- Chinese adage

Not there yet.

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