The original proverb says if you want peace, prepare for war, and I first met it in a military sci-fi paperback where things were about to go very badly for everyone. Good line. Slightly dramatic for my life, in which the wars are a heavy grocery haul, a fifth-floor walkup, and being forty someday. So: amended. If you want peace, prepare the body. Every quiet capability you build in the gym is a conflict that never happens later. The tweaked back, the winded stairs, the couch that eats a decade. I train for peace. Peace, it turns out, has a program. Three days a week, minimum.

Printed on the Comfort Colors 1717, a garment-dyed heavyweight with that broken-in feel from day one.

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