Versatile

• Very cool post ranking the most impressive multiport athletes in US History. Jim Thorpe, Bo Jackson, Jackie Robinson. Some amazing accomplishments. 

Podcast

• I recently appeared on the PXSpace podcast. Linda Robinson and I had some deep discussions on emergency medicine (she was an ER nurse for years!), lifestyle medicine, the opioid epidemic, and many other topics. 

Recovery … shoe?

• Thanks Campbell for showing me this souped up Croc-looking gem from Kane footwear. They really are comfortable, water proof, and don’t look too bad.

Anabar

• Check out this protein bar, Anabar. 25ish grams of carbohydrate, but also 20 grams of protein. Their gimmick is that they don’t add fake stuff, so the bars have some very real…sugar. But they taste amazing, and still much healthier than a Snickers. Eat one after a big workout. 

More shoes

• A friend whose family business sells shoes told me that your shoes are the only part of your wardrobe that impacts wellbeing. Our feet are extremely important, the body parts that contact the outside world constantly. 
• Back in April 2021, I linked to an exceptional podcast interview with Irene Davis, PhD. Listen to the episode for her rationale, but she recommends minimalist shoes such as Xero and Vivobarefoot. I highly recommend Xero, especially if you can find them on sale. 
• Another brand that is “zero drop” (no drop in the shoe from heel to toe) is Altra. I just received my first pair of these (trial running shoes) and love them. Similar to Xero but with more padding. Amazon has several Altra shoes >40% off right now. 

The Shepherd

• We recently attended the funeral of a family member who died too young. It was beautiful to hear about his nursing vocation, his marriage and family, and his involvement in their church community. The excellent sermon included a story that I had never heard before. It really is worth following the link and reading.

Quotes

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring—it was peace.”
— Milan Kundera​

For the first time I understood Goethe’s laughter, the laughter of the immortals. It was a laughter without an object. It was simply light and lucidity. It was that which is left over when a true man has passed through all the sufferings, vices, mistakes, passions and misunderstandings of men and got through to eternity and the world of space. And eternity was nothing else than the redemption of time, its return to innocence, so to speak, and its transformation again into space.
– Herman Hesse