Happy Halloween!

1987; Falls Church, Va.
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Simple Things

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Guts

"Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." -Sylvia Plath


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Navajo Nation

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Freedom

"It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do." -writer Alan Sillitoe
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Baby Steps

"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow." - author Doug Firebaugh
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Desire

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Bitter

"Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience." -A.J.
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Moon Shoes

"That's why you're doing so well -- you're wearing Hokas!" -random guy I passed during Sunday's Dogwood Canyon 50K
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Smiles

"She just lit up the room. Blondes do that sometimes." -our admin assistant about our potential future boss. Can't say I disagree with that :)
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Even Keeled

"I haven't got any violent feelings about anything. I just love writing." -P.G. Wodehouse
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Not Very Nice

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Early Eater

"Let's make this quick, you're interrupting my dinner." -a Pulitzer-Prize-winning author after answering my phone call ... at 4:30 p.m.
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Self Aware

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Branching Out

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." -author Brian Tracy
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Crucify Your Mind

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Moving

"Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare fiddle?" -Katherine Mansfield
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I'm Sending You All My Love

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Mascot Love

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Action

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Actions breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." -author Dale Carnegie
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Mind's Eye

"You never know what you'll want to write until it starts writing itself in your head." -Jill Ker Conway
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Proactive

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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USA

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Flying

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Books

"A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun." -John Steinbeck
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A Mess

"If you organize chaos, you organize as much as you can to show that it's chaos. It's the way I do it. To pretend it's not chaotic is a lie." -Irwin Shaw
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Informed

"Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent." -Gore Vidal
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Going Back

"All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the love to the love he has forsaken." -Thomas Wolfe
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Aware

"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use." -Emily Post
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Amen

"I love a good wedding just as I love any part with an open bar and "The Electric Slide." But unless you are wealthy, come from a family that has never known strife, enjoy giving up an entire year of your life to planning, and can smile in the face of any possible wedding disaster (and mean it, not just for pictures), you should elope. That's because weddings -- even small-scale ones -- are more pageant than sincerity." -article on Slate.
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On the Road

As seen driving around Columbia.
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