Not Above One’s Business by William Thayer

Here is the chapter I read this morning from “Gaining Favor with God and Man” by William Thayer (originally published in 1893). 

 The fascinating thing about this book is that it was written for children.  Amazingly, you would be hard pressed to find more than 80% of the U.S. adult population who could manage the vocabulary in this book today.

The following is an excerpt from this chapter:

“Peter the Great laid aside the robes of royalty, and entered the East India dockyard at Amsterdam, in disguise, to learn…(read the rest here)“

Not Above One’s Business

Response to High Noon Walking…

In response to Chris’ post on walking his neighborhood, you know that if you walk the southern perimeter it is almost exactly 1 mile.

Morning Walk…

Merry Christmas Eve.  It’s a cold one in Kannapolis, NC today.  I slept in until 5:30 am today as the past few days of <6 hours sleep per night begins to take a toll.  It would have been much later except that Jack woke me to help him find a bathroom.

Today, my body was sending every signal it could to my brain that this was just not worth it and I needed to return to the house as soon as possible.  Everything (muscles, bones, ligaments) was in pain including my lungs from the cold air.  I recalled the article on PUSH that I just published the other day and encouraged myself to continue.  Within the first .25 mile, everything had changed.  It was amazing.  Everything in my body felt as though it was actually “craving” the walk, pushing me to continue.

Took a slightly different route today.