Born to Run by Christopher McDougal

Absolutely fascinating chapter on the anthropology of running, explaining how our species adapted to running after we split from chimps, giving up speed and strength in exchange for endurance. The best answer he has for this is persistence hunting, though the evidence for this is rather slim.

I wish I had run barefoot my entire life, but now, with my achilles tendinitis, I don't really know where to go. My achilles have to stretch over large bone spurs on my heals, themselves probably a result of shoe wearing. At least I won't feel the need to buy new running shoes so often.

Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

Author reminds me of my dad, saying so many things that just don't make sense yet with some really profound wisdom interspersed.

The most important subject that this book stirred in me was "how to make love last", and taking about what that exciting mystery is in new romances and what happens to it later on. Romance in solitude, romance in mystery, romance in new things and forgotten things. Overall hopeful, but with plenty of realism. Reminds us that the mystery will tempt us in "the next pair of eyes that smile at us". But in the end, as in real life, there is no single answer for how to make love stay.