🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 Thought for the Day

[It Takes Eleven]

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein

 

[TerryP]

Quite. It's a lost art.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
- Paul Harvey

 

[TerryP]

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
- Paul Harvey

You have outdone yourself.

 

[64Tide]

The same things that win have always won. We just have a bunch of different excuses now.

Coach Bryant

 

[rick4bama]

The same things that win have always won. We just have a bunch of different excuses now.

Coach Bryant

Very So True Today!

 

[footballer]

Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after tomorrow.

Or

After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
- John Buchan

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Maps are not reality at all - they can be tyrants. I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

- John Steinbeck

Steinbeck wrote this of paper maps in 1962. I can only imagine his view of mapping programs and a populace consumed by their phones, never noticing the world around them.

 

[rick4bama]

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Dick Van Dyke

 

[It Takes Eleven]

The long distance hiker, a breed set apart
from the life of the usual pack.
A hoist in his gear, he knows in his heart
he's gone, long before he'll come back.

- Nimblewill Nomad

 

[Bamabww]

Nimblewill Nomad

Tim, Patsy and I shared a shelter with him several years ago on the AT. A very interesting man. We got very little sleep that night enjoying his stories and conversation.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Tim, Patsy and I shared a shelter with him several years ago on the AT. A very interesting man. We got very little sleep that night enjoying his stories and conversation.

That's awesome! I missed meeting him when we did the Flagg Mountain portion of the Pinhoti a few years back. I was more active in the trail community when he did his Key West to Canada hike. Have you ever seen the short film chronicling his thru-hike a couple of years ago? At 83, he set the record for the oldest thru-hike. Funny, he didn't start hiking seriously until retiring at 61, I believe, and he's logged over 30,000 miles.

PBS12 Presents | The Last Last Hike

83-year-old Nimblewill Nomad is about to become the oldest person to thru-hike the Appalac

www.pbs.org

 

[24and7]

GO NAVY BEAT ARMY!

 

[Bamabww]

Have you ever seen the short film chronicling his thru-hike a couple of years ago?

No! I'll look it up though. Thanks for mentioning it.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

No! I'll look it up though. Thanks for mentioning it.

I included the link to it above! It's less than twenty minutes.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

A good comb-over is not meant to falsify, but is a guileless celebration of what remains.

- Rachel Kushner

 

[It Takes Eleven]

There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen.

- attributed to Vladimir Lenin, origin unknown

 

[rick4bama]

"It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself."

Patty Duke

 

[It Takes Eleven]

An empty altar receives no fire.

- Frank Bartleman