I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down / until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.