Oh Hey! Happy Thursday!

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

This time of year, the ride, and these things recently inspired me:

• 12 Stoic Questions That Will Change Your Life. We use “stoic” to describe a behavior or mood that has nothing to do with Stoicism. That’s too bad because I really learn so much from Ryan Holiday’s practical application of Stoic philosophy. I’ll be honest, I only made it through the first six questions. They’re powerful.

• How to Breathe While Running Using a Rhythmic Method. “This means that if you begin to exhale every time your left foot hits the ground, the left side of your body will continually suffer the greatest running stress.” Yep, I experience this when running. I’m still not excited to go for a run...

• More Disease Than Dracula: How the Vampire Myth Was.Born. I love the relationship between science and story—that story comes first out of a desire to understand and explain a thing. Then science helps our stories evolve.

• The English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8,000 Years. Rhymes with box.