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Monday, October 29, 2012

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Sunday Afternoon Ponderable

"Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don’t mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. The new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable and open."

--Stephen Russell

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Nice

Wait, what?!?

Heh

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Classy

Uh...

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Saturday Evening Ponderable

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Indeed

Saturday Afternoon Ponderable

"Forgiveness is a part of unconditional love. Forgive yourself throughout the day for all the moments when you are not high, not loving, and not wise. Forgive others for all the moments they are not high, loving, and wise. As you forgive, you make it easier to become those things you want to be, and you make it easier for others to become them also."

--Orin

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Uh...

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Uh, let me think. No.

Friday, October 26, 2012

Friday Evening Ponderable

"Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future."

--Yehuda Berg

Pretty much...

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Classy

Friday Afternoon Ponderable

Hmm...

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Thursday Evening Ponderable

“Each man has only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself. His task is to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else is only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity; and fear of one’s inwardness.”

--Hermann Hesse

Uh...

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Whoops

Hmm...

Funny how that works...

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Wait, what?!?

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Complete shit run, yet not...

I ran this afternoon...

I didn't feel like running.

I had to talk myself into it.

It was relatively warm and humid, and I figured it'd be as buggy as hell.

I went anyway.

Buggy, warm, humid, tons of trash on the trail since it is Fall and the leaves are dropping like crazy.

I *hated* this run as I started it...

It was too warm, and very humid, and my Garmin was glitching, so I couldn't even get it to give me my mile pace...

I got the Garmin to behave around the end of mile 1, but that was annoyingly late...

I hit a spot several miles in where there was this wasp orgy going on, on the trail, and I almost landed my left foot on it, but instead I did this instinctive lateral off my right foot that made me land on my left foot with leftward momentum that *really* made my left ankle go "WTF!"

I had to walk that out, but it went away, and I started again...

I hated this run, but I finished it. And strangely, ended up thinking it was what it was supposed to be. And I ended up loving it for what it was, since it was more than I ever expected when I started out. :-)

Wednesday Evening Ponderable

"See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness."

-- Eckhart Tolle