Neal A. Maxwell

"Within the swirling global events- events from which we are not totally immune- is humanity's real and continuting struggle: whether or not, amid the cares of the world, we really choose, in the words of the Lord, to "care for the life of the soul." Whatever our anxious involvements with outward events, this inner struggle proceeds in both tranquil and turbulent times. Whether understood or recognized, this is the unchanging moral agendum from generation to generation."


Friday, August 20, 2010

Antarctic Ice Marathon





http://www.icemarathon.com/


This is completely crazy. Maybe someday when I have an extra $15,000 lying around, I'll sign myself up and go rub elbows with the most granola people on earth. And for the whole race I'll reflect on how feminine I actually am. I'll feel relieved that I decided to get eyelash extensions before I left. I'll reach up and, finding sparkly earrings hanging from my earlobes, I'll think that the minor irritation is totally worth it. I won't feel embarrassed that I'm wearing a pink, tulle bow around my beanie. I'll love all the things that keep me from being identified as a grossy granola... because surely traveling all the way to the south pole to run a marathon in sub-zero temperatures pushes me closer to granola than I have ever been.

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