Bits and Pieces"

If you have satellite TV you will have had the experience of the picture breaking up during bad weather. Sometimes it gets all fragmented whereby the entire picture is there but all scattered around the screen in bits and pieces. I think sometimes life can be like that. Everything is there, your loved ones, your job, your finances, perhaps your faith, but it's all jumbled and unclear. The good thing/bad thing is that you can still see the possibilities and still have hope that it will all become clear any minute/day/year...

So I admit that my picture is a little fragmented right now with perhaps the exception of my physical self. I was just telling Claudette last night that never in my life have I felt so "all together" in that regard as I do now. The combination of training for the 3 triathlon disciplines along with the rresistacne training I do now has left me feeling strong and tight in almost all regards, and it's starting to show up in my workouts more and more.

Today I rode 150 kms in 4 hours 50 minutes and then ran 5 kms in 25 minutes. I admit I was tired when I finished but I suppose that's pretty normal. Last October I did the same bike distance in 5 1/2 hours. Today was a very good day for riding mind you, but I'm still very happy with it. Plus I can tell you that last October I could not have run a single step after a ride of that distance. So yes physically my picture is generally fairly clear. I still have to work on my flexibility but I am committed to improving on that element of fitness as well.

I wish to dedicate day 231 to my wife for her indefatigable efforts to help our collective children become happy people. She is the first to admit that she makes mistakes like everyone, but she never, ever stops trying.

“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."---Anais Nin

“There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather."---Martin Luther

love
peter