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Forty-five years ago, the editor of “The Thinking Runner’s Magazine” was likely looking for any hints at getting faster and maybe some free content. The deep dive into the last box of archives offered up a two-page handwritten letter. Two lined sides of a single sheet from a three-ring binder. In ink with corrections. Remember…
Albert Einstein once said that ‘insanity’ was ‘Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting to achieve different results’. He was a clever chap, that Einstein fella. And, according to him, I must have been insane. Because I kept on working hard, and I kept on expecting to be rewarded, even though my hard…
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. – Umberto Eco So, anyway, I came across some notes from about 1995. Deep in the Siuslaw forest, feet from the river. Imagine you…
I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff which I call the bullshit. I told him that it was crazy stuff and they were wasting their time, and was doing grave, grave disservice to the country. – Trump’s Attoady General Bill…
Furtive behavior is always noticed and, when noticed, inevitably raises an alarm. On the other hand, a man acting boldly and directly is viewed as honest and harmless, is not remarked upon, and is later forgotten altogether. – Dean Koontz He had tried to get along. When all his neighbors were terrified a caravan of MS-13…
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. – Antonio Porchia Pardon me if I ramble a bit. Even more than usual, I mean. All my life, people have been asking me, what the hell do you do all day? Happened again and as bad as my memory might be, I thought, I’ve been here…
Don’t be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. You’re saying it’s a falsehood, and they’re giving — our press secretary, Sean Spicer, gave alternative facts to that. – Kellyanne Conway The flags started going up more than a couple of years ago and I did not like it. Even if I agreed with the ideology,…
The past is what you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. – Harold Pinter This seems a good time for a flashback in case your memory, like most Americans, has gotten hazy. Remember Auqilino Gonell, the U.S. Capitol sergeant who testified about the attack on January 6? “My fellow officers and I were…
A delusion is a false fixed belief that is not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, hallucination, or some other misleading effects of perception, as individuals with those beliefs are able to change or readjust…
Childhood is that state which ends the moment a puddle is first viewed as an obstacle instead of an opportunity. – Michael K. Williams Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn’t…