The muscle between your ears is what keeps you going when the going gets hard. The opposite is true, too. When life is kicking your ass, being physically strong helps you muster the mental strength you need to persevere.
I Don’t Ever Feel Bad After Doing It
All I know is that after all the miles on bikes and all the pounds lifted, I never felt bad after doing it. Not once. Every effort brought its own reward, every single time. In moving myself, I somehow lifted my soul.
16 Pairs of Shoes (The Pandemic Diaries)
I’m not going to write about what the pandemic took from me. It took so much from all of us.
To write about what we have lost is like trying to catch a waterfall. Your hands can only hold so much.
But I’d be a liar if I said the pandemic didn’t give to us.
The Year of a Thousand Days
This is the Year of Thousand Days … but we’re still here. And that’s pretty damn beautiful, darling.
It Still Starts With You
If you want something more, if you’re aching from waiting so long to start a new and better life, then don’t let this pandemic take that dream from you.
You Will Get Through This
Magical thinking is all the rage now. And I can kind of understand it, even as I don’t. States are opening back up. People are interacting without masks. Our federal …
What Should You Be Building Your Life Around Now?
Until a handful of weeks ago, many of us spent our lives sleepwalking.
Keep Rowing for the Shore
We’re all operating at the limits of our human existence.
You, me, and everybody else in this pandemic.
The Two Lessons We Just Learned
The coronavirus just smashed down a big ruler on society’s desk and yelled like a mean old schoolteaching nun, “PAY ATTENTION!”