Excellent things

• Excellent runs

  • Fresh Pond - beautiful 2.25 mi. loop
  • Charles River - paved trails - distance varies
  • Heart Break Hill - 3 mi. round trip from Walnut St.
  • Wellfleet OysterFest - 5K
  • Mt. Auburn Club or YMCA - not excellent but ...

• Excellent reading

  • Love & Respect, Emerson Eggerichs (pl. send good examples of respect in literature)
  • The Secret of the Pink Carnation, Lauren Willig (historical fiction chick lit)
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling

• Excellent food

  • Amarin of Thailand of Wellesley, especially the Fresh spring rolls
  • Spice Thai Cuisine - Massaman curry to beat all
  • Flemings - best steak in Boston

• Excellent sports

  • Red Sox - how can you not love them?
  • Patriots - how can you not love them? Peyton whoever doesn't COMPARE

• Excellent meditation

  • Shambala, Brookline - Wed. p.m. weekly open house
  • Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, Tues. p.m. weekly sitting and dharma talk
  • Our Lady Help of Christians, Newton, Sun. 6 p.m.
  • Daily reflections, prayer according to St. Ignatius, online study guide
  • Campion Renewal Center, also Jesuit