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Cape Cod The footsteps of Thoreau. I am browsing through a copy of Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod that I received as a gift. He wrote consistently through his life. He read consistently too. He read in many languages and had a broad, scholar’s grasp of the available literature of antiquity. I have read Walden, …
Strengthsfinder 2.0 Lifelong learning includes learning about you. I recently read a book and took the assessment for a methodology called StrengthsFinder 2.0. I make it a practice to continually learn and especially continually learn about myself. There are a number of these social psychology type methodologies available that try to organize the messiness of …
Inner Peace It’s that time of year. It’s that season. Where people are stressed. Ironically the time of year where you are supposed to be celebrating family and togetherness is when there is the most stress. The holidays are where, even if you’re not prone to stress, you start to feel it. Unfortunately, this time …
Beep Beep! The timer goes off… When I jog-walked the Chicago Marathon this year at the way back of the pack with Zen Runner and Eddie Marathon one of the interesting things was the cacophony of beeping going back there. It was like being in a microwave oven convention. The vast majority of participants in …
The barefoot weights workout A nice twist on pumping iron When I was in my twenties, before I was a marathoner, I spent a year or so lifting weights. There was a gym within walking distance of my office. I’d walk over at lunch and workout 4 or 5 days a week. I’d do chest, …
