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NY Times 11 Ways to Be a Better Person in 2017:
Second annual semi-serious list of self-improvement tips, gleaned from the Styles stories that resonated most with readers in 2017. Here’s how to be healthy, happy and a little bit Canadian in 2017.” (And if you’d like to go deeper, our 15 tips for 2016 still hold up.)”
Notes:
“A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that is where you want to go. … The only sermon that counts is the one that is formed by our actions. She would quit drinking and thereby show Kyle life is what you make it. A person can grab hold of her life and change things for the better. This happens all the time.
We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.”
~ Pontoon by Garrison Keillor
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Make up your mind that nothing is more important than how I feel now, because now is everything. Now is the whole enchilada. Now is the power of me. Now, now, now, now, now… You might as well start somewhere, and it might as well be now. Why not start improving your life now, now, now?
~ Abraham
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This photo was taken on my run this morning. Yes, I know, “Amateur hour” and completely unremarkable (borderline trash). I took me a bit to post it as my mind raced to the incredible photographers that I follow and the word association games that I play to keep going…Bill Pevlor (Mother Earth)…Tracie Louise (Surreal)…David Wetzel (Photographer, Painter, Writer), Robert Santafede (Pause), Vicky Taylor-Hood (Home)…and many others I’ve neglected to mention.
Yet, this photo is remarkable to me in other ways. Here’s the journey on the run this morning.
I set Mr. Endomondo to the workout mode of “Beat Yourself” – competing against my time from last Sunday. (Endomondo destroyed me yesterday by a whopping 3 minutes. Heat. Humidity. Excuses. Stack them up. I can’t use yesterday as a base line. That’d be cheating…)
I strap on my Garmin GPS. (You just don’t know when you’ll need the back-up.)
5:42 am. I hit the start/go buttons on my gadgets. And down the road we go. (LaDona is training for a half marathon in Victoria, B.C. The least I can do is get 5 miles in before the thermometer hits 90°F.)
I’m less than 1/2 mile out, and Endomondo tells me that I’m 16 minutes ahead of Friday’s pace. (Argggghhhhhhhh. I must have pressed the WRONG button. BAD Endomondo! Here’s exactly why you have a contingency plan.)