i just ran 9 miles with anna, through the snowplowed streets with knee and waist-high drifts all around us! we ran down along rt. 5 to st. gabriel's manor rd. and back. i feel great, minus some knee pains, that i am optimistic that if i treat gently, they will heal well ( Read more... )

"I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time."
-Forrest Gump

"And there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22angi.html?ref=nutritionRead more... )

i like this year's MAT-ers :)

more from everything is illuminated...

I walked to the Brod, without knowing why, and looked into my reflection in the water. I couldn't look away. What was the image that pulled me in after it? What was it that I loved? And then I recognized it. So simple. In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and ( Read more... )

from everything is illuminated by jonathan safran foer... at a jewish sabbath service at a congregant's house. i have no idea what it means in terms of jewish ritual and it probably makes just as much sense reading the excerpt out of context as it does to me in context (by which i mean very little), but i sort of like it.

"There we go. Memory. ( Read more... )

also, i'm finding myself listening to music and thinking about how it could be remixed to make fresh dance beats. hahahahahahaaaaaaaaa oh no i'm lost.

dancing is near-invariably the most excellent idea.

i just found this on some random food blog     (food for the thoughtless... been there, anna? i think the commentary is even better than the recipes... :) ), and thought it was hilarious. that's all... no real reason for posting it ( Read more... )

From an article on Zen meditation in the NYTimes ( Read more... )