Though I dress for every situation.

Julius Caesar, Act II, scene i

Making plans for an informal play reading tomorrow night, taking in summer furniture, rolling up the new awning for the season.

The season turns, we move indoors. 

Distance: 3 miles

Duration: 25:06

Route: rec center
Temperature: 47°
Climate: dark clouds and breezy
Mood: all right

Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Weight: 162 lbs.

Planks: TBA
Push-ups: TBA

Sit-Ups: TBA

What's That Lyric?

Situation - Yazoo

When it rains it rains all the colors in my paintbox.

shadow combover

We rest. We read. We write. We breathe. We drink water. We plot. We scheme. We live. We love. We view. We cook. We dine. We try. We try so hard. We try so very hard. We tell our stories. We create.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 28:44
Pace: 9:16

We take the bus. If there is no reason to have a car available during the day, we take the bus. It has been the summer of bus. Takes twice as long as driving, but in that time I can read, or think. It’s better for the environment. It’s going that way, anyhow, why not get on board?

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 73°
Climate: misty & light rain
Mood: all right?

We work. We make dinner. We pack lunch. We dine together. We talk. We watch TV together. We sleep well. It gets cooler, now the rains. The leaves begin to turn. The last official month of summer begins today. One more month, but it's already gone.

But that's okay. We like the the fall. Fall is for endings, but it's for beginnings, too.

Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Weight: 162 lbs.(-0-)

My right heel. Still. Tight, I do stretches, the first quarter mile is still so difficult, then it eases off. I need some PT, this just isn't going away on its own.

Planks: yes
Push-ups: yes

Sit-Ups: yes

155-164 BPM Playlist

Ballet For a Rainy Day - XTC

Black Star - Radiohead

Lost Track - Haim

A Bar Song (Tipsy) - Shaboozey

Giving Up On You - Wild Belle

Classical Gas - Mason Williams

She's Tight - Cheap Trick

Sleepless - Soul Coughing

Boo'ed Up (Remix) - Ella Mai ft. Nicki Minaj & Quavo

That's good bpm.

Dark and getting darker all the time.

Every three years since we began courting, I have created a mixtape/CD/playlist for my beloved, which drops during the summer, usually in time for a big road trip. They are a chronological document of the songs we enjoyed together, concerts we attended together, movies we had seen together, moments that surprised us together, even times that we had suffered together.

The series is called Music From the Big Love, this year I created collection number ten. That's thirty years for those of you scoring at home (and if you are scoring at home, knock it off). The past three years have seen us from the closing of the quarantine through the emptying of our nest and so many other occasions.

Things that go to make up a life.

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 28:49
Pace: 9:17

"Kiss Me While the World Decays"

(Music From the Big Love 2021-2024)

Disc One:

Chaise Lounge - Wet Leg

Benny's Dispatch from "In the Heights"

America from "West Side Story" (2021)

Radioactivity - Kraftwerk

Wedding Song from "Hadestown"

Cracker Island - Gorillaz ft. Thundercat

Nothing Left to Lose - Everything But the Girl

Theme from Succession - Nicholas Britell

Route: Boulevard Loop
Temperature: 52°
Climate: cool
Mood: all right
Stretches: yes 
Water: yes

Pain Reliever: yes

First morning for the new year of the residency. Poor sleep (the cat visited me a half dozen times) but I rose early to have a run before we begin. I plan to continue in this way for the next several weeks. I hope that I do. Every other day, a run.

And the world has turned. Literally. I must run through the city, where there are lights, and not through the woods, where it remains dark. I will return to them over the weekend.

Upper body: 

Core Strength: 

Baseline: 185 lbs.

Weight:  174 lbs. (+1.0)

Goal: 170 lbs.

Breakfast: coffee w/cream, bagel & cream cheese

Coffee Break: coffee w/cream, oatmeal cookie

Lunch: sushi & salad, Fruit Snacks

Snack:: Cheez-Its

Dinner Prep: Nosferatu, almonds

Dinner: Gazpacho, crusty bread