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2009-07-04

• 13:51 UTC (new) (history) Not Always So . . . . zz – A collection of Shunryu Suzuki lectures that I find at the library—Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen—is a diamond mine of insight and humor. From "Jumping off the 100-Foot Pole", for instance: ...
• 13:44 UTC (new) (history) 2009-06-24 - Balls Hill Rd . . . . zz – === ~4 miles @ ~10 min/mi The lawn sprinkler beside the sidewalk is like a tiny oasis as I run through its mist. I'm on my way toward Langley . . .

2009-07-03

• 11:39 UTC (new) (history) 1 Comment on 2009 Summer-Fall Tentative Race Calendar . . . . Caren Jew – Wow...throwing down the gauntlet on The Ring! I like it!
• 08:12 UTC (new) (history) 2009 Summer-Fall Tentative Race Calendar . . . . zz – One dear friend-by-correspondence has kindly told me that my interminable running reports here are not her cup of tea. //Point taken!// I can't . . .

2009-07-02

• 08:38 UTC (new) (history) 2009-06-23 - Langley Lap . . . . zz – === ~4 miles @ ~10 min/mi I squint my eyes and hold my breath like a sounding whale as I dive through the dust cloud thrown up by a leaf-blower. . . .

2009-07-01

• 09:25 UTC (new) (history) Japanese Boyfriend Scale . . . . zz – A decade or two ago in a book of Japanese slang I read a list of terms that trendy young ladies can use to rank their boyfriends. "Mr. Reliable" was . . .

2009-06-30

• 08:51 UTC (new) (history) 2009-06-21 - Father's Day in the Park . . . . zz – === ~4.5 miles @ ~10.5 min/mi & ~12 miles @ ~10.7 min/mi Comrade Caren Jew is preempted Saturday and we can't go trail running, so on Sunday . . .

2009-06-29

• 09:05 UTC (new) (history) Short and Sweet . . . . zz – Thinking about the über-prestige factor of short names brings to mind: * **g** = the hypothesized "general intelligence" factor . . .

2009-06-28

• 08:29 UTC (new) (history) 2009-06-18 - Mormon Temple Hillwork . . . . zz – === ~8 miles @ ~10 min/mi "It gets easier after a while!" I reassure a suffering lady as I jog past her on the slope that, at this point of her . . .

2009-06-27

• 07:41 UTC (new) (history) Wobbly Bits . . . . zz – A delightful new British slang phrase rose above my horizon last week, as mentioned in the fashion section of the New York Times: "wobbly bits". Yes, the term could be a euphemism for ...

2009-06-26

• 08:46 UTC (new) (history) 2009-06-16 - Georgetown Pike . . . . zz – === ~3.5 miles @ ~10 min/mi It's cloudy and humid this afternoon as I jog from the office down Georgetown Pike, circle the local high school, and . . .

2009-06-25

• 09:10 UTC (new) (history) Larger Context . . . . zz – In isolation it's easy to make fun of many short poems. Take William Carlos Williams famous: | So much depends upon a red wheel . . .

2009-06-24

• 08:55 UTC (new) (history) 2009-06-14 - UM Loop . . . . zz – === 10+ miles @ ~9.9 min/mi The signature scene of today's run appears near the end, as I'm cantering past the . . .

2009-06-23

• 23:20 UTC (diff) (history) 2 Comments on Falling Asleep . . . . zz – Oooh, good point, Caren—I forgot all about those weird semi-dreams, bizarre connections of ideas, etc.—when I used to read aloud . . .

2009-06-21

• 00:23 UTC (diff) (history) [[rollback]] . . . . (minor)

2009-06-19

• 19:20 UTC (diff) (history) 0 Comments on MigraineVisions . . . . zzzzz – Rollback to 2009-06-19 08:54 UTC
• 19:20 UTC (diff) (history) 1 Comment on ToThePain . . . . zzzzz – Rollback to 2009-06-19 08:54 UTC
• 08:41 UTC (new) (history) MINI Cooper Wiper Ratio . . . . zz – The rear window wiper blade on Paulette's MINI Cooper goes slower than the front windshield wipers. It also moves sporadically, not constantly. That . . .

2009-06-18

• 08:38 UTC (new) (history) 2009-06-09 - Heat Acclimation . . . . zz – === ~4.5 miles @ ~9.5 min/mi "And I thought //**I**// was crazy!" the friendly pedestrian says to me as I jog past. The temperature is in the . . .

2009-06-17

• 10:33 UTC (new) (history) Breath as Vehicle . . . . zz – **The Miracle of Mindfulness** by Thich Nhat Hanh is a thoughtful little book that I read a few decades ago and then largely forgot. Maybe putting it . . .

2009-06-16

• 08:53 UTC (new) (history) 2009-06-07 - Capital Crescent 5k . . . . zz – === 3.1 miles @ 7.2 min/mi In the post-finish-line chute the fellow in front of me ducks under the side rope, crosses the path to a small tree, . . .

2009-06-15

• 08:52 UTC (new) (history) Carpe Spiram . . . . zz – "Seize the Breath!" Paying attention to one's inhalations and exhalations is a classic way to develop mindfulness—deliberate, nonjudgmental . . .

2009-06-14

• 13:47 UTC (new) (history) 1 Comment on FractalFeynman . . . . zz – Years back, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the Feynman lecture series of books, but lucky you, to have had the experience live. Regarding the . . .
• 13:42 UTC (new) (history) 2009-06-06 - Catoctin Sunrise . . . . zz – === 11+ miles @ ~17 min/mi In case young bikini-clad ladies are cavorting in the parking lot //(cf. 2009-05-31 - Schaeffer Farms)// I arrive . . .
• 00:35 UTC (new) (history) 1 Comment on AwesomelySimple . . . . comment move – I noticed that in physics, for example, the big goal seems to be to make simple rules that are very powerful. These are things like Newton's laws, . . .
• 00:33 UTC (new) (history) 1 Comment on MorningMourning . . . . comment move – It is inspiring that in the middle of the tragedies of our time your spirit strains to appreciate the beautiful and the ordinary. Ordinary. That . . .
• 00:29 UTC (new) (history) 1 Comment on MinorImp . . . . zz – It's been remarked that the appreciation of humor (or perhaps more to the point here: //wit//) mainly requires the mental juxtaposition of //how . . .

2009-06-13

• 07:25 UTC (new) (history) Love Story . . . . zzz – "Love Story" is a popular song by Taylor Swift that steps to the brink of greatness and then backs off. It's ostensibly "country" music but gets . . .
• 07:21 UTC (new) (history) How to Back Up the ZhurnalyWiki . . . . zzz – This note is mostly for myself //(but then, so is everything else here!)// to help me remember. There are several ways to make a backup, but one of . . .

2009-06-12

• 08:39 UTC (new) (history) 2009-06-03 - Lake Artemesia T-Storms . . . . zzz – === ~6.5 miles @ ~9 min/mi "Make Way for Ducklings!" Or rather, ducklings make way for me, hastily escorted by their parents off the path and into . . .

2009-06-11

• 08:54 UTC (new) (history) If We Remembered . . . . zzz – If we remembered it all, Every flare, flash, flicker, New images every moment: ...

2009-06-10

• 20:47 UTC (new) (history) 1 Comment on 2009-05-31 - Schaeffer Farms . . . . bugfarm – Yo, ^z & family! After talking with Fred H. (my ex) over the weekend, your names started popping into my head. So I just googled you and made . . .
• 09:19 UTC (new) (history) 2009-05-31 - Schaeffer Farms . . . . zzz – ~8.5 miles @ ~16 min/mi "Slow down! You're going too fast!" the voice shouts at Caren Jew and me as we trot along the mountain bike path. We look around, expecting to see a cyclist zooming toward us—but it's Mark McKennett, parked at a trail junction and pulling our legs. I last saw Mark at 2am on Massanutten Mountain, at the fire ring for the Gap Creek Aid Station where ...

2009-06-05

• 08:48 UTC (new) (history) Posture . . . . zz – From the chapter "Posture" in **Wherever You Go, There You Are** by Jon Kabat-Zinn: Mindful sitting meditation is not an attempt to escape from problems or difficulties into some cut-off "meditative" state of absorption or denial. On the contrary, it is a willingness to go nose to nose with pain, confusion, and loss, if ...