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Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain. – Emil Dorian When Covid came to town, I’ll be honest, I was already completely busy growing old. Fully occupied slowing down. When nothing is going on, every day continues to amaze me – don’t need no…
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. – Markus Zusak I hurt. Say that the same way I say, I am tall. Well aware many people are taller. Started decades and decades ago. Just thought that was part of my job as the World’s Slowest Professional…
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. – Ray Bradbury “It’s like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink…
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun” – Pablo Picasso Picasso said, why should I blame anybody but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about? Picasso asks a good question. Offers a…
If women governed the entire world, it is my theory that soon we would have world peace and healing of the entire planet. – Leland Lewis Former President Donald Trump gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a bizarre rave review on Tuesday after Russian military forces began moving into Ukraine and threatening the civilian population ― while simultaneously claiming nothing like…
I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy…
I’m not an accomplisher. I’m like a spider spinning my web. It’s all I can do. What we do we do out of a natural instinct. We don’t even know why we are doing it, if we did we couldn’t do it. Striving is destructive. I don’t believe in control, in studying, in learning. I…
“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” – M.T. Me, Too. See yourself in others. See others in your self. Know the difference and change. – Valentine’s Day 2022
“I couldn’t neglect my 10-mile run just because I was getting married. If you can get away with it the morning you’re married, you can get away with it anytime, ’cause then they know you mean business.” I don’t remember running with Bill Emmerton, but I imagine it was something of a big deal for…
In all, 242 athletes trained in Flagstaff for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympic Games. If these athletes had competed as “Flagstaffians,” the city would’ve placed 10th in the world – just below Italy – in the overall medal count. – Pine: The Alumni Magazine of Northern Arizona University (Fall 2021) Flagstaff, Arizona. August 6, 1973….