3/14/22
Today I completed a 365 day run streak. I have run at least one mile per day for the past year. To mark the occasion, below are some initial reflections, interesting stats from the past year, plus a thought about what comes next. Initial Reflections You can do just about anything once a day. Most days it was inconvenient to fit in a run. Some days it was nearly impossible.
An observation after having run every day for 297 days in a row:
The first mile is almost always the worst/hardest mile of any run.
That’s why he and two co-authors—Dweck and Greg Walton of Stanford—recently performed a study that suggests it might be time to change the way we think about our interests. Passions aren’t “found,” they argue. They’re developed.
From a much appreciated article by Olga Khazan—especially for those of us in the world of K-12 Classical Education.
Change your name, and fool the angel of death. Read more from my recent article for the Feast of the Holy Name here.
I have to imagine that those who work towards developing or are in any way excited about the Metaverse have only ever watched the first five minutes of a Black Mirror episode.
The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is essential background reading for the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1-13). The parallels and inversions between the two are uncanny.
Catholicism is a very tangible business—it's about seeing and hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling as much as it's about texts and arguments and ideas.
George Weigel, Letters to a Young Catholic