Don's Diary

The McCloud River Trail

Don and Sean hiking 5 miles at Panther Meadows and Bunny Flat

Site was down. Obviously, not now.

Undefeated in age group (now 80). Won Skandia 5K, new age group record (30:34.2), won $100.

Tonight I won age group on a tough 3K XC course at Lane County Community College. 21:09.5. Outkicked by a 7 year old girl in the last 20 yards.

Books read in February. Favorites with astericks.

The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton*
How To Live or A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell*
True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart by Thich Knah Hahn
The Wise Men by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas
A Diary From Dixie by Mary Boykin Chesnut
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography*
The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn M. Brodie
The War on Warriors by Pete Hegseth
El Greco to Valazquez: Art During the Reign of Phillip II by Sara Schroth
Right Things, Right Now. Good Values, Good Character, Good Deeds by Ryan Holiday

Bach: Essays On His Life And Music by Christoph Wolff
When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know That She Is Not Playing With Me? Montaigne and Being In Touch With Life by Saul Frampton*

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The author needs a chill pill.

Couples Classic 5K on the streets of Eugene, 29:10.6. 1st in age group. Oldest (oddest?) participant.

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Books read in January. Favorites with astericks.

The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer*
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer*
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin S. Sharma
Shrapnel In The Heart: Letters…from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Laura Palmer
A Line Out For a Walk by Joseph Epstein
In A Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage by Joseph Epstein
Obscure Destinies by Willa Cather
This I Believe : Edited by J Allison and V. Merrick*
This I Believe II: Edited by J. Allison and V. Merrick
Karla’s Choice: A John Le Carre Novel by Nick Harkaway
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law by Neil M. Gorsuch
Safe Enough: And Other Stories by Lee Child
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles
T. Munger Edited by Peter T. Kaufman*
Plain and Simple by Sue Bender
A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Ngu
In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you know, the more places you’ll go. ~Dr. Seuss

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