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28:37.7 at the Butte to Butte 5K. Best of 14 in age group. Thrilled. Major goal is to snag the 80-84 age group record, three plus minutes slower than the 28:37. Details.

Books read in June. Favorites with astericks.

Fabulous Small Jews by Joseph Epstein*
The Golden Boys by Joseph Epstein
Life Sentences by Joseph Epstein*
Being There by Jerzi Kosinski
Steps by Jerzi Kosinski
The Ocean and the Stars: A Sea Story by Mark Helprin*
Would It Kill You To Stop Doing That? by Henry Alford
The Concise Book of Lying by Evelin Sullivan
Salt and Steel: Reflections of a Submariner by Edward L. Beach
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity by Peter Attia, M.D.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Meet My Maker The Mad Molecule by J.P. Donleavy*
Mrs. Lee’s Garden: The True Story…of Arlington by Carlo DeVito
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More… by Gretchen Rubin
Teddy and Booker T. by Brian Kilmeade
Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
Bones of the Master: Journey To Secret Mongolia by George Crane*

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time—proof that humans can work magic. —Carl Sagan