twenty-seven years and one million words
My wife and I won a three-legged-race - I think it was the first I'd ever run. This was at the "undokai", the annual gymnastics day of the kids' Japanese school. We, the adults of red team won all three tug-of-wars. Ken's relay team won their match. It was a good day.
Ken had a bit of a sunburn, and I think we all had a bit of fatigue from the wind.
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.