"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes." -Buddha
Good mantra for marathon training...
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Oh, Buddha
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Cute
"That sounds like a movie. I'd watch that movie." -a new friend's response to how Matt and I met. It is a pretty good story :)
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Pocket Protected
"It's not survival gear if it's not on your body...that's what this whole story is all about." -Chief Iditarod vet Stuart Nelson, a Columbia native who was lost in the wild last summer. Read my article here!
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Friday, January 28, 2011
Co-operation!
"A symbol of economic development made more significant because it's all funded through local investment." -thoughts on the new Los Alamos Co-op. Article here.
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Dusty & Dry
"It was as thought they lacked the retinal nerve that allowed them to see the land for what it was; they could see it only for what it refused to be -- namely, the green picturesque scenery and tillable farmland of the settled world from which they had come." -how the men of the Washington Expedition viewed the American Southwest during their quest to subdue the Navajos in 1849. Quote from Blood & Thunder.
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Inside My Phone
"I live you a message in your voice mail." -an e-mail from a woman in Mexico regarding a story I was fact checking. If only my Spanish were as good as her English (but hey, I did buy a Spanish-English dictionary this weekend!).
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Bad Mail
"Why did you send me a textbook?" -Jackson questions me about the package I mailed him. Apparently someone removed the goodies I sent and inserted an engineering book. Weird; makes me mad :(
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Monday, January 24, 2011
Too cold for recess?
"One northern Minnesota school says it has to be 15 below zero before kids are kept inside. But in areas along the East Coast, temperatures below 35 to 40 degrees could keep inside." -from a USAToday article. Read the whole thing here.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Bluegrass
"Would you dance with me Molly, it's a Saturday night. There's a chill in the air; do you think that you might? Want to dance with me Molly to an old fiddle tune playing soft like the wind through Virginia in June. "-cover of "Poor Boy's Delight" by the Railyard Reunion, who played at the Cowgirl yesterday afternoon.
A clip from their Web site:
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Yup.
"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid." -John Wayne, as quoted in The Week.
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Friday, January 21, 2011
Thoughts
"I have many unwritten books to fly to for my preservation." -Mark Twain
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Christmas
"Red or green?" -state question of New Mexico (referring to chilies). Apparently, NM might get a state necklace soon, too.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Hurry Up!
Matt and I aren't the only people excited for the Los Alamos Co-op to open! This was on the front window...
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Monday, January 17, 2011
Descent
"Though the movie sometimes focused on team rivalry and the need for speed, its real power came from four powerful narratives that had little to do with miles per hour or placing." -My Hood to Coast review is up on OutsideOnline!
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Sunday, January 16, 2011
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Friday, January 14, 2011
Red
"I've got a bottle of wine waiting for you." -text from my wonderful husband during a stressful week .... and no, I didn't drink the whole bottle.
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Coasting
"The idea was that 12 people would divide themselves into two groups of six, run three legs each and cover the nearly 200 mile distance from the mountain to the ocean." -premise behind the Hood to Coast doc.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Outside my Window
"In every direction rose mountains, an embarrassment of them, erupting in incremental shades of blue from the burnt yellow plains -- mountains of every description and geological origin, some volcanic, some forged by faults and violent uplifts, some stand-alone monadnocks, others tied to the Rocky Mountain chain. They all had Spanish names and had had them since before the pilgrims sailed to Plymouth Rock: The Sandias. Manzanos. Ortiz. Jemez. Los Cerrillos. Sangre de Cristos. San Mateos. Atalaya. Some seemed so close they could be plucked as effortlessly as pendulous fruit, others were more than a hundred miles off, thin blue phantoms rising from the Navajo country in the hazy west." -Santa Fe's mountains, as described in Blood & Thunder.
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Inside You & Me
"The end result is a dry, odorless, permanently preserved specimen containing no toxic chemicals. It retains the look of the original, but functions as if it were rubber." -explanations of the "Bodies" exhibit; saw it yesterday in Albuquerque.
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Sunday, January 9, 2011
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Santa Fe Showshoe Classic
"Nature had no mercy at all. Nature says 'I'm gong to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.'" -Maya Angelou.
Good think I have on the snowshoes and no bikini. Trying my luck at snowshoe racing today.
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Friday, January 7, 2011
Bloggerific
"Win your dream mountain biking adventure." -one of my three (short & sweet) blog posts for Outside. Hardly anything out of the ordinary, but hey, we all gotta start somewhere!
Happy Friday :)
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Another Day
"My birthday was good. I'm just having them too often." -e-mail from Jan. At what point do they start coming too quickly?
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Crazy Kitty
"We're all mad here." -the Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland; Winkley is probably a distant relative.
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Anniversary
"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, a beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two humans is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life." -British novelist Hugh Walpole.
Married for one lovely year today!
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Frozen Fingers
"I checked the weather, and the weather said 'brrrrrrrrrrr!'" -Eric on Santa Fe's recent cold streak. This morning we ran in about 5 degree temps.
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
Hello, 2011!
"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." -Ben Franklin.
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