Now > All Times Before

[d-johann-h]

“Who can say of a particular sea that it is old? Distilled by the sun, kneaded by the moon, it is renewed in a year, in a day, in an hour.” -Thomas Hardy . . Reading “The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth” by Hugh Aldersey-Williams aloud to Harper. She was truly devouring the words. Quote above is used in the book.

[d-johann-h]

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

[d-johann-h]

Stunning. Absolutely stunning, the vastness of a world so intense with growth and birth, in the season of life between the dormant winter and the baking heat of summer.

Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

[bobcronkphotography]

The Rising Sun - Caught the sunrise this morning from the West Hills in Portland, Oregon.  2-13-2015.  The black specks you see on occassion are birds flying through my shot. :)

[d-johann-h]

Poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment.

Ian McEwan, Saturday

[d-johann-h]

...when a powerful imperium--Assyrian, Roman, American--makes war and claims just cause, history will not be impressed.

Ian McEwan, Saturday

[d-johann-h]

If I were called in To construct a religion I should make use of water.

Philip Larkin, "Water"

[d-johann-h]

Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.

Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

[d-johann-h]

Sleepless in the early hours, you make a nest out of your own fears--there must have been survival advantage in dreaming up bad outcomes and scheming to avoid them.

Ian McEwan, Saturday

[d-johann-h]

She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she exhaled, and then she had no more needs, no more reason; she was released from her body, and being released, she continued her journey elsewhere, high in the firmament where soul material gathers and plays out all the dreams and joys of which we temporal beings can barely conceive, all the things that are beyond our comprehension, but even so, are not beyond our attainment if we choose to attain them, and believe that we truly can.

Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

[d-johann-h]

To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.

Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

[d-johann-h]

The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles--preferably of his own making--in order to triumph. A hero without a flaw is of no interest to an audience or to the universe...

Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

[d-johann-h]

...the physicality of our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak; a true champion can accomplish things that a normal person would think impossible.

Garth Stein, The Art of the Racing in the Rain

[d-johann-h]

...the city is a success, a brilliant invention, a biological masterpiece--millions teeming around the accumulated and layered achievements of the centuries, as though around a coral reef, sleeping, working, entertaining themselves, harmonious for the most part, nearly everyone wanting it to work.

Ian McEwan, Saturday

[d-johann-h]

My 2014 Running Stats

1,762.02 miles

254 hours, 42 minutes, 18 seconds running

248 runs

7.10 miles/run average

4.75 runs/week

4.83 miles/day

Marathons: Boston, Anchorage Mayor's Midnight Sun, Bellingham Trail

Ultramarathons: Beacon Rock 50k (1st Ultra!), Volcanic50

New Half Marathon PR: 1:25:13 at Mercer Island Half 

2014  Boston Marathon

2014 Volcanic50, circumnavigating Mt. St. Helens

[foresthoney]

White House Petition

To charge and prosecute Darren Wilson for 1st degree murder for the murder of Michael Brown HERE.

It needs 100,000 signatures to be addressed. It only has 35,013 as of 11/25/14 @ 10:20pm EST.

Please sign and signal boost this.

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

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