Quote of the Day

I am so weak and I'm so tired
It's hard for me to
Find enough strength to feed the fires
That fuel my ego
And consequently all my pride has all but died
Which leaves me
Down on my knees
Back to the place I
Should have started from


Been beat up
Been broken down
Nowhere but up
When you're facedown
On the ground
I'm in last place
If I place at all
But there's hope for this underdog!


- "Underdog" by Audio Adrenaline

With Two of My Heroes

Dr. Suzy and soon-to-be nurse Corey:

Surfing 7/22

Count That Day Lost

by George Eliot

If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard,
One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went —
Then you may count that day well spent.


But if, through all the livelong day,
You've cheered no heart, by yea or nay —
If, through it all
You've nothing done that you can trace
That brought the sunshine to one face —
No act most small
That helped some soul and nothing cost —
Then count that day as worse than lost.

What We Value

Mark E. Smith is someone I gather great inspiration from. He has a blog in which he writes about life from the perspective of someone with a disability. I appreciated a recent post entitled No Moments Slip By. Check it out.

Teaser:

The relationships we form and the fond memories we make are what truly matters. And, when we move beyond living to impress others with our careers or material possessions, we move closer to lives of true merit, of true meaning, of true connections, where our true net worth is based on who we love and how deeply we love.

Bob Ross Remix

http://youtu.be/YLO7tCdBVrA

Quote of the Day

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. 

- Winston Churchill

Quote of the Day

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. 

- Jewish Proverb

Quote of the Day

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." 

- Carl Gustav Jung

Quote of the Day

"For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering. I believe really great men must experience great sadness in the world."

- Crime and Punishment

5 x 50

This morning was my 77th day in a row running. I celebrated by cutting 5 inches off my belt since it has gotten too long now that I have lost 43 pounds (28 in the past 77 days). Although it isn't really a goal of mine, it would be neat to join the Running Streak Association if I manage to run at least a mile 365 days in a row so I am putting in at least a mile everyday.

RunKeeper tells me that I have been averaging 3.36 miles a day or just over a 5k (3.1 miles) every day for the past 77 days.

Well today I saw this!:



Yep - I registered.

Quote of the Day

"Oh, yeah, I'm a gym member. I try to go four times a week, but I've missed the last... twelve hundred times."

- Friends

Quote of the Day

Miracles are a retelling in small letters the very same story which is written across the world in letters too large for some of us to see.

- CS Lewis

Summer Days

Quote of the Day

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

- CS Lewis

Quote of the Day

If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too.

- Tupac Shakur

Quote of the Day

When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what is happening to it.

- Danny Pudi (plays Abed on Community)

Happy 4th!

Quote of the Day

"It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you." 

- M. Grundler

Amen

An Immigrant's point of view

At Gettysburg

by Linda Pastan

These fields can never be
simply themselves. Their green
seems such a tender green,
their contours so significant
to the tourists who stare


towards the far range of mountains
as if they are listening
to the page of history tearing
or to what they know themselves of warfare
between brothers. In this scenery


cows and cannons stand side by side
and motionless, as if they had grown here.
The cannons on their simple wheels
resemble farm carts, children
climb them. Thus function disappears almost entirely


into form, and what is left under
the impartial blue of the sky is a landscape
where dandelions lie in the tall grass
like so many spent cartridges, turning
at last to the smoke


of puffballs; where the only red
visible comes at sunset;
where the earth has grown so lovely
it seems to forgive us even as we are learning
to forgive ourselves.

Quote of the Day

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are

- Kurt Cobain

DIY Summer-time Fun

I can't stop watching this and laughing



http://youtu.be/4AF6dPEx7jI