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  • starting lines

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    In my lil’ beginner running series on Nike Run Club, Coach Bennett briefly talks about how finish lines aren’t really a thing, so much as the next starting lines (I’m paraphrasing). I am really enamored with this idea. As a recovering perfectionist, the freedom from worrying about my finish time or outcome is…freeing? LOL. Perfectionism…

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  • greedy little hobbitses

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    While I love writing, the business of writing feels gross to me. But I get seduced by it, I do. It starts purely. “I want people to enjoy this thing I made, but how do I get it to them?” But, it’s a short trip from that genuine excitement to a…lust for attention. The “C”…

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  • solo spaceship

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    Whenever I am by myself in a room, and I know I will be in that room for awhile, I have a mental container: I pretend I’m in a spaceship. It’s not just any spaceship. It’s a little solo craft, and the living capsule/habitat is about as big as a room (whatever room I’m in).…

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  • Golden by Zorn & Marz

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    Golden articulates the zietgeisty feeling that our world and our minds are too daggum noisy. We need less less less, and we need things to quiet down. In this book, authors Zorn and Marz diagnose the problem, look at the benefits of silence, and then provide examples of how to bring more silence into our…

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  • running down a dream

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    I signed up for a 5k in February. Three point one miles sounds like something that one should be able to do without having to do any preparation. It sounds like just, a, you know, a basic fitness thing. Unfortunately, I’m so sedentary and overweight and out of practice that I’m tre slow. I doubt…

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  • words words words

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    I have started and stopped putting words on the world wide web since the 1990s. At first, I created my own websites through HTML 1 coding (and tested them in glorious Netscape Navigator), then I used templates on places like Geocities, Angelfire, CJB, etc. As “blogging” became a thing, I moved on to Xanga, Blogger,…

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